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0 pointshackit21y ago0 comments

How you choose to react to situations, and how you choose to act in your life is what defines your identity. Not the results you gained by effort or achievement or lack thereof.

> that one is contributing to something

I feel sorry for people who measure their self based on some consumerism yard stick, it is pathological.

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ilc1y ago· 1 in thread

Contributing to something can be helping at the local church, or other things of value.

I don't consider the urge to help others a negative one. But one shouldn't measure. It is doing the thing to do it for whatever your reasons are, that matters.

If I choose to build something to help a kid walk, I am contributing to many things. And yet, I may get paid nothing, and not even care.

squigz1y ago

> I may get paid nothing, and not even care.

Even if you did get paid, it doesn't take away from what you're doing.

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squigz1y ago

> I feel sorry for people who measure their self based on some consumerism yard stick, it is pathological.

I mean, if you think this sums up every job everyone has, then I feel sorry for you. Many people are doing laudable work that has nothing to do with "consumerism"

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