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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 677537" data-attributes="member: 158">I'm 32, have a weird sense of humor, and have an expeditious retreat spell cast on my hairline - I gave up on looking "cool" long ago. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But one of the most important lessons I can possibly leave you with is this one: A person who doesn't do the things they love because they are worried about the opinions of others who probably really don't care about them, are wasting time on a fruitless pursuit. Life is so short on this world, that the time not spent leading a fulfilling life is hurting only yourself. Play D&D, get the amount of education you need to succeed, take the job that makes YOU fulfilled at the end of the day - and if you can't find it, take a job that gets you by, to heck with the prestige of it, and keep looking until you find the job that you WANT to do. A long time ago, there was a phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" - referring to doing the things your peers did because you wanted to not stand out from the crowd in a negative way. The fact is, the Joneses don't care about you - they have their own worries and deficiencies they want to hide from everyone.If everyone in this world stopped worrying about how they compare to other people, and starting setting goals for themselves that THEY should reach to better themselves, then this world would be a lot less catty, mean-spirited, and cold place. The personal goal is what matters; the goal one thinks others have for you is a fruitless quest."In the end, the race is long, and it is only with yourself."</blockquote>

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