Posted by Bob on October 18, 1999, at 23:56:13
In reply to Whatever, posted by Jane (janey girl) on October 18, 1999, at 18:38:13
> I never called anyone on this board a failure.
> I'm the failure. It's the only thing I succeed at.Hey. You're on this board, and you belong here whether you like it or not. You've identified with us in the past, so start doing it now. You belong here with the other not-failures.
You do know what that means, don't you? It means that you are failing at being a failure. "The sage is sick of sickness, therefore she is not sick."
Keep it up and I'll have to go one up on you. I'll have to tell you the full story of how, when I was so certain I had failed at everything (at the ripe old age of 22), I tried to kill myself ... and I failed. Completely. In every conceivable way. I botched things so bad, the university counselors who are supposed to put people like me at the time into the hospital couldn't even take me seriously.
I got you beat, janey girl. I bet you a pint of ice cream you can't come up with a more wretched, pitiful sorry excuse of a story than that ... and if I was to even TRY telling the whole thing here, all y'all out there in Babbleland (including myself) would laugh me right off this board.
Janey, if life is getting so absurd that you can't cry anymore, then its time to start laughing at it. If you can still cry, let it out.
If you can't, then start looking for the punch line.
Fuggedabowdit!
Bob
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