Hollywood trains young people to believe someday they’ll be uplifted from their mediocre lives for being secretly special. Harry Potter Lord of the Rings Star Wars Magical old wizard saying “Oh hey, sorry I ignored you but you’re special.” Are you waiting for a wizard? Thread
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I started out in poverty with fleas coming in through the walls and rats in the ceiling from dirty neighbors. Food stamps, eating food the gas station threw away. I worked hard at school and improving myself and raised my family above poverty. No one came to uplift me. I worked.
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I worked because I realized no rich relative was going to appear and help me. I wouldn’t win the lottery, and politicians didn’t actually care about helping me. It was entirely on me alone. I realized my choices were stupid and shortsighted and I had to change and be better.
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I knew a man who believed he’d die in 2012. Did nothing to advance his life, just porn and video games and cyber sex. No career. Barely worked. Credit card debt. 2012 came and went and POOF, still alive. What next? He started working. Built a real life. We all must work.
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No wizard or rich patron is coming to uplift you. Beware the one who tries, because that stuff only happens when pretty young girls are harvested for sex work. We all must work and make something of ourselves. You are not an identity, you are an accumulation of choices.
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If you’re waiting for a magical window to open that grants you help, some mythical “big break,” it won’t happen. You can work hard and be discovered and uplifted TO MAKE MONEY FOR SOMEONE ELSE, but that still requires work to cultivate a useful skill.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Even if it did, you wouldn’t have the work ethic and skills to make use of it
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