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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"There are no retakes in real life"

[b]Bogus. Everything I do in life has retakes![/b] The proposal my husband worked on all weekend was submitted to his boss a dozen times for review/rewrites. The design the contractor submitted for our kitchen took 3 attempts before we were happy. The software I designed last year was shown to the client on 100s of occasions before sign off. Life is a series of do overs.[/quote]

Then your life is unlike the life of anyone else I know.

"Everything" you do in life has retakes?  Really?  "Life is a series of do overs"?  No, sweetie, it is not.  You've named a few examples of very specific, superficial examples in which a "do over" was possible.  Most of life is not like that.  Surely you can see this?

You struggle with writing clearly.  It is unfortunate that your English teacher allowed retakes.  Were you allowed to redraft until you wore her down and she simply gave you the grade you wanted?  It shows.  [/quote]

I think you two are talking about different things. Making sweeping general statements, like there are no do overs in life, can't be used for every situation, as you two point out clearly. Can you go and do over a car crash that almost killed you? No, clearly there is no do over there. Can you do over a marriage? No, you can try to fix it if it goes wrong, and call a second marriage a "do over," but it is not, it is just another try to do something else in life. Can I edit and re edit and triple edit, and then edit again my academic paper after peer reviews are done? Yes. So, work and life can be two very different things. If you are a police officer, can you really do over shooting a guy at a wrong house, or even shooting anyone? Definitely not. You two are comparing apples and oranges. [/quote]

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