Knowing your own limitations

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How honest with yourself are you about what you do/aspire to do in life? Is it foolish to keep plugging away because that is all you have ever been compelled to do, despite feeling that you may never be more than average in the doing of it?

Is this an age thing, I wonder? I feel that there may be a split between people in their early to mid-thirties, and those slightly younger.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I know we've probably had a lot of threads like this. Sorry.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i refuse to accept my limitations most of the time. the problem is that my unrealistic ambitions are matched by chronic laziness. still i'll usually pursue all my interests to a certain level until i either get bored or feel that i have done enough in that area - such is the way of the hapless dilletant.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

you are me.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

minus the loving wife and suntan

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! I'm still pretty pale, actually.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i am the opposite. i think my limitations are far greater than they probably are. therefore i do nothing.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Don't you know it takes an honest man, who knows he sucks but does the best he can?"

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, your limitations aren't set in stone, so you should keep trying to better yourself. It's probably better to have unrealistic goals than no goals. One must be prepared to be disappointed, but maybe that just means looking for a new direction.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"There is no limit-disappointment"

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 17 November 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

huh?
I go back and forth. I think that I sell myself short too often, but then I'll try to do too much or something.
Like rightnow, I'd kill for a cigarette, and it's been four weeks.
What better to celebrate 4 weeks of no smoking than with a nice, flavourful cigarette?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously, though - four weeks w/out a cigarette is great! Keep it up!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

woo-freakin-hoo. though I think I'm pretty much over the hump. if i backslide now, it's because i'm a reprobate, not because cigarettes are so deliciously addictive.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

You must face up to the fact that for the rest of your life, cigarettes will occasionally smell really great (but sometimes not!).

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

that's what this thread is about, isn't it?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Take from it what you need.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 November 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm... I have learned the hard way not to get my hopes up, um, basically ever. I get excited about things, but try to keep them in perspective. Unfortunately, this has also made me feel like some things will be forever out of my reach.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish I'd learned my own limitations a lot sooner. I kept on slogging at something that was never going to work until long after it was reasonable, and now what have I got to show for it?

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

That we all think you rock!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Rock won't feed my children!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It worked for Ozzy!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

and Nino Brown

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

This is all about knowing your limitations. I'm not Ozzy, clearly. That's a limitation. Perhaps a bloody good one!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

oops just made me spit water on my keyboard.

― Dancing Queen, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never been one to believe i have any limitations beyond my looks and personality. thank god.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://us.st5.yimg.com/store4.yimg.com/I/demotivators_1765_5255678

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

that makes no sense

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

yes it does

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

quiet you

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you, Chris, for changing my life.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

man is not a penguin

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

ANIMALS ARE PEOPLE IN FUR COATS

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

penguins! know your limits!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Took me ages to sort out what my limitations actually are, then I disregard them entirely.

(To actually answer yer question)

(Bonjour, Kate! Ca va?)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You have no idea how funny that penguin is till you've been a regular user of the Chicago Transit Authority... that's me! Chasing the bus, arms outspread, walking for an hour to get there no matter what... and still filled with hope for life, yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeha

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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