Roads taken...and not taken

[iberia]

I have been in an intense internal debate about how much of my life to post online. Some of you may be aware that I deleted my myspace profile about two weeks ago. I doubt I will delete this...livejournal is something I feel like I must have, even if I only rarely post in it anymore. The debate is not wether or not I should have a livejournal, but

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[ltmurnau]

Good Lord, when I think about where I was at 28...when I turned that age (October 92), I had only recently returned from two years ESL teaching in Japan. I still had no career or inkling of one, a useless BA, I was done with the Army (and teaching), Canada was veering into a bad recession and gross constitutional crisis, I had a fiancee on the hook back in Japan, some savings but absolutely no prospects. I was living in a single rented room next to a senile old woman who never slept, mumbled barely audible obscenities to herself all day and whacked the walls with a broom constantly to keep out the hallucinatory people popping out of hatches to get her

[the_vern]

Yeah i noticed you deleted the myspace profile :(

as for making public or friends list only public of success and failure, it is often good that you tell people what you want them to know, we are here as your friends and with that comes a great degree in support in both good and bad times. Anytime you need advice or someone to rant to this is the place for it. and if we didnt like it i am sure none of us would have LJ.

Life is a race with an undisclosed length and finish line, sometimes during the race we get ahead and/or fall back. Like me for instence i am just now going back to school (2nd semester) which is something i should have done years ago but didnt. that procasitnation was a set back but now i am getting ahead again. just live life as you want it to be and dont worry if you fall behind becuase it will happen, typicaly you dont know til its too late but often thats the motivation to get ahead again.

[woodthehood]

Dude,

One day you will look back on your rejection letter from Stanford and laugh.

Trust me.

[pizdushka]

We're not an audience to watch you fail, we're a gathering of friends to help you back up if you do. And besides, failure is a perception you put upon yourself. You only really fail if you let yourself believe it.

We still need to get together for coffee or something. :-)

[poegrl]

Babe you've come a long way.
No one winds up where they thought they'd be in life; honestly if you did I don't think you where ever really living it. Then again I have been known to be one of the crazy ones. :]
Choices and chances, some are good, a lot of them are really bad, but once in a while some are really fucking awesome, and those are the ones that make it all worth while.
I always get personal; then again that's just me. Failures in my eyes are beautiful things, they are the shit of life. (stay with my here my story gets better) From the shit we grow and become stronger, wiser and in a way a bit more beautiful... true you may smell a little funny afterwards but that all passes. (Laugh damnit it was funny)
You'll get what's coming to you and make of it what you will then share it with the ones you wish to share it with because that is just human nature.
So here is to spreading the shit. Cheers :]