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To: aculeus

I've always had a theory that the worse thing that can happen to a person is to get their heart's desire.

I've seen people obsess over things for years - possessions, people, jobs, houses - to the point where they think "if only...then I will be happy, finally".

9 times out of 10 when they finally succeed they fall into a depression, because it didn't change their lives into the miracle they had emotionally invested it with all that time.

I can imagine it's a lot worse when that obsession includes body mutilation and your general sense of self. I'm just surprised it's not more common. I bet it is, and they just refuse to acknowledge they are still unhappy, because that would destroy them.


37 posted on 07/31/2004 9:03:50 AM PDT by I still care (Have you heard about the Democrat cocktail? It's ketchup with a chaser.)
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To: I still care

I agree 100%


46 posted on 07/31/2004 10:16:39 AM PDT by Nataku X (You hear all the time, "Be more like Jesus." But have you ever heard, "Be more like Muhammed"?)
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