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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am one of the generation of women who was told growing up that she could do anything and everything and that she was the best. I thought by now I'd have a thriving and successful career as a doctor or some prestigious organization such as the UN. I'd be married to a well to do man and live in a beautiful house with a baby on the way.

Instead my life is so...ordinary. I have a normal middle manager job at a nobody office and am dating a very average guy with a boring job. We live a very middle class life. I'm thankful for my health and life but...I feel so disappointed.[/quote]

a reality of life that somehow a young man or woman never gets until it is them.  [b] we all live lives of quiet desperation.[/b]

but not that your awareness of what life is, it will even get worse.  focus on living, live for the moment.  it is the only thing that has meaning to me.
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He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach -- that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again. It is artificial and, even then, bought at the price of an obstinate estrangement from oneself and one's history . . . . Stoically he suppresses his horror. He learns to live behind a mask. A lifetime experiment in endurance. A performance over a ruin.
American Pastoral, by Philip Roth, p. 81. (1997)

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Yikes, this is sad. Do you really believe this? My life isn't desperate or sad.[/quote]

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