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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That said, my brother wasted years of his life trying to make the Olympics in his sport.  He spent all of college exclusively focused on that goal.  He missed making an alternate for the team by one slot.  He did graduate from college after 5 years, but with a crap major and a crap GPA.  It's haunted home for years and now in his mid 30s he's still playing catch up.    The dream of an Olympic medal was a huge bust for his life, as I'm sure it is for many.[/quote]

Is it his attitude that he "wasted his life" on a "bust" or is it yours? I don't think he should regret what he did at all. You have to be a tremendous athlete to be "almost" Olympic quality. That is an achievement in and of itself and the effort is by no means wasted. If he hadn't tried to make the team, he'd have spent the rest of his life regretting it.

Plenty of people graduate with crap GPAs in crap majors without doing any sports at all. Then they go on to lead productive and happy lives, because once you have graduated nobody gives a shit what your undergrad major or GPA were.

Some people spend six years getting a PhD and then never become professors. Did they waste years of their life on a huge bust?[/quote]

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