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Originally Posted by ChipperMonkey
Sadly I think this is a very American thing. You lose your ability to work and you do feel like you are nobody. Its one thing I hate about American society. The first thing anyone asks is "what do you do?" and when your answer is "nothing" you get to the point where you don't even want to socialize anymore. Worth shouldn't be based on what you do. Not all of us have the same abilities. Take it to extremes and you end up with Hitler-like society where the disabled are exterminated.
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More like a "global" thing, and I believe that the media is to blame. It was like that in my country, it is like that in Ireland, and I think it's no different elsewhere. People are conditioned to believe that what you accomplish is more important than who you are. People judge and measure one another's worth by their "trophies", and also by what they wear, what they drive, where they live, etc...
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Originally Posted by ValentinaVVV
For example, right now, it is driving me crazy that I wrote "elf-esteem" instead of "self-esteem" in the post above.
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Hahah I'm like that too, often revisiting and sometimes editing posts to add a comma or bits of words I missed. I hate being so obsessed like that.