"You're not special"

August · 06-07-12, 03:29 PM

One of the better speeches I've ever read.

Quote:

Like accolades ought to be, the fulfilled life is a consequence, a gratifying byproduct. It’s what happens when you’re thinking about more important things. Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Go to Paris to be in Paris, not to cross it off your list and congratulate yourself for being worldly. Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them. And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...eid=1061137286

Betonov · 06-07-12, 03:35 PM

Love it. This is special and original. Someone had the cohones to tell them the truth. I just wish there was someone like that when I finished high school.

frau kaleun · 06-07-12, 06:32 PM

I can hear the screams of thousands of parents all across this great land of ours....

"But but but my child is a PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKE!"

razark · 06-07-12, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

"But but but my child is a PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKE!"

And it's true. They are all unique. Just like everyone else.

(Except mine, of course. Mine are so much better than the rest of them.)

Ducimus · 06-07-12, 07:06 PM

This day and age, it seems like everybody thinks they are special, and bad things can't happen to them. Then they sit there looking like dumb pieces of excrement when bad things do happen. I always think to myself, "what, you thought you were special or something?"

Sailor Steve · 06-07-12, 07:09 PM

I'll have you know I am special!

And I'll be competing in some very special games this summer.

06-07-12, 07:09 PM	#6
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I'll have you know I am special! And I'll be competing in some very special games this summer. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

06-07-12, 03:35 PM	#2
Betonov Navy Seal Join Date: May 2009 Location: Slovenia Posts: 8,647 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Love it. This is special and original. Someone had the cohones to tell them the truth. I just wish there was someone like that when I finished high school.

06-07-12, 06:32 PM	#3
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	I can hear the screams of thousands of parents all across this great land of ours.... "But but but my child is a PRECIOUS SNOWFLAKE!"

06-07-12, 07:06 PM	#5
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	This day and age, it seems like everybody thinks they are special, and bad things can't happen to them. Then they sit there looking like dumb pieces of excrement when bad things do happen. I always think to myself, "what, you thought you were special or something?"