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posted by A. Lo @ 8:20 PM
My So-Called Life
Friday, December 01, 2006
My So-Called Life
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- Name: A. Lo
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2 Comments:
Nice. I've always wanted to go into business making those cheesy Christian nature scene + nice bible verse posters, but instead of a nice waterfall use something like a Hyena chomping on a live Zebra or maybe two male Chimps going at it.
Or, take the poster of a person walking on the beach with a second set of footprints by theirs, supposedly Jesus's footprints. Now imagine, same thing but Jesus's footprints stop but the person has walked farther, has turned and looked, and now has an "oh crap!" look on their face.
Just some free ideas.
The poster that always annoyed me was one in our youth classroom that said, "Success is measured by effort" and had a photo of two hands dunking a basketball.
Thing is, they made the basket. Which means they were successful because they succeeded in making the basket, so whether or not they put effort into it was totally irrelevant. Seems to me the photo actually undermined the point of the poster, since lots of people work really hard but never can dunk the ball, just because they don't have the natural ability. Do they succeed, according to the poster?
Of course, I guess the real problem is that an all-or-nothing proposition like dunking a basketball is just an awful example to use when trying to hype effort. But then, what is a good example of how "success is measured by effort"? Isn't that just a nonsense proverb? Isn't success, by definition, judged by results?
I'm not saying it makes you a bad person if you try hard at something and fail--not at all. But say I really wanted to do a graduate degree, I worked really hard, took my best shot at it, and couldn't get into school. The effort probably would have been worthwhile, sure. But success?
I guess "Keep looking until you find something you can succeed at, then do that," doesn't make that great a poster.
No one at church ever understood why that poster bothered me so much.
What a sad little life I live.
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