Hi Howard,
Amen to that one. I fully agree with you.
Carolyn Kj4vt
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From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 8:24 AM
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Subject: Re: hard work
> I don't know, I moved for a job, it didn't work out, and with the
> isolation
> and stress, it cost me my first marriage.
> I realized that sometimes the price is to high.
> Well, better to try and fail, than not try at all.
> So many of us are actively discouraged from exploring, taking risks, and
> recovering from failure; from little on, that we have no idea how to be a
> functional adult.
> Being an adult requires all of those things!
> The road to hell is paved with kindness.
> If you prevent failure, you also prevent success. That simple truth has
> been lost by our education system.
> So many smart people are so dumb!
>
> The biggest break I ever got was before I was 1 year old. A Dr. told my
> parents to stop looking for the magic Dr. who could give me back my
> eyesight. Put $1000 in a fund to pay for emergency room visits, and bring
> me up like any other child.
> I had to try, fall, bleed, cry, and break bones to grow up normal and
> functional.
> I have the scars to prove that they listened to his incredibly wise
> advice.
> I was on a first name with the nuns who worked in the emergency room at
> St.
> Vincent's hospital.
> Risk taking, and more importantly, risk assessment is an essential
> survival
> skill.
> I think this is part of what allowed me to become a ham, fix stuff, break
> stuff trying to fix it, climbing roofs to do my own antenna work, and have
> 47 years of fun in general.
> Ham radio at the age of twelve, allowed me for the first and maybe only
> time
> in my life, to be a person, rather than a blind person.
> Nobody new or cared, unless I told them.
> That was very new.
> Didn't happen again until the computer and Internet came along.
>
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