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Originally Posted by Byebyemermaid
Whether you want to believe whether they were kidnapped is your perogative.The other things i stated are factual.No matter who you are if you're constantly blaming someone else it's a prescription for failure.I'll give you 2 examples,myself being the first.There was a time i blamed my company because i wasn't earning enough.15 years ago i took a long look at myself and realized it was me and that instead of blaming them,maybe i need to put that wasted energy into my job.And mind you i was going nowhere.Today i love my job and treat it like it's my own business.Thanks to my change of attitude other things fell into place.I'm married with 2 wonderful kids and wife with a house,dog,cat,hamster and 2 fish.none of this i could ever of attained with the path i had been on.The 2nd example is friends of my parents who we have out at our house at least once a year.What do these 4 couples have in common all survivors of the holocaust with there tattoos as reminders.The wives were not able to have children because of experiments that were done on them,and 2 of the couples were in the death march out of Auschwitz walking through the forest naked.These people could have lived the rest of there lives blaming the Germans but instead of looking back they looked ahead and all were very prosperous having come to the United States with nothing.In fact 2 of them drive Mercedes.My point is when you wake up every day and do nothing but harbor resentment and use all your energy no matter what nationality for that your doomed.
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Well, I appreciate all that. My Armenian grandmother was the only child (of 8) to survive the genocide. They lived in Keyseri, in central Turky.
I don't misguide my energies (at least not as much as my wife says). I guess it's good that you figured out the work thing. It's no fun being in a bad position at a bad company. Hell, I know what that's like too.
I live in a south Florida neighborhood with lots of Jewish neighbors. They're all good people for the most part. Sure there's some that look at me sideways, but that's true of any nationality. I actually get along far better with the more senior neighbors as I find the stories of the "old country" always interesting whatever the heritage of the person telling the tale.
The wives you mention are surely victims. So are my realatives still in Baghdad. However, neither really has more importance than the other in how I see the world. I'm not a fan of the current Israeli politics and I see the world different than you. If that's a sin, then by all means string me up.