First of all I would like to say that this group of people is a great resource. You all as a group are some of the most intelligent, thoughtful people I have ever had the pleasure to "meet".
With that being said, are we fooling ourselves that any of this is helping? I have been around since about 2005. I have watched for signs but I can only point to a couple of success stories here. I don't count NOP as his path to success was already laid down before I got here. I see GEL, maybe HP as successes. IC and LFL are looking good but it is still early in the game for them. I have seen Mojo's and Fearless's marriages dissolve and the slow dissolution of Lil's R. I now read of perhaps impending doom in Hairdog's and Choc's situations. The rest of us seem to be doing more or less the same as we were 3 years ago (now there is a depressing thought). While I don't know how those who have left us are doing (how's it going Chrome/Cobra/Chrissy?), my thought process would suggest that we would have at least heard if the sitch's were successfully resolved.
So I ask the philosophical question: Are the successes because of what we learn here and the failures in spite of it or is it all just a random crap shoot and our time here could be better spent painting the house or on some other tangible if mundane triumph?
Or do I just need to get laid so my brain stops spinning so much?
Gone the carvings and those who left their mark. Gone the kings and queens, now only the rats hold sway.
