The Cliche You Most Hate
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So if someone is a lazy ass they can't be what they want. Yup. You can be whatever you want, you just gotta be willing to put in the work to get there.
Well it kinda does. And yes I've lost family members.
"the proof is in the pudding"
"piece of cake"
"its all gravy"
"bad egg"
"you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs"
"know your onions"
"couch potato"
"an apple a day keeps the doctor away"
"a nickle will will get you on the bus, but garlic will get you a seat"
"keen as mustard"
"nutty as fruitcake"
grace said over salad: "lettuce pray"
"piece of cake"
"its all gravy"
"bad egg"
"you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs"
"know your onions"
"couch potato"
"an apple a day keeps the doctor away"
"a nickle will will get you on the bus, but garlic will get you a seat"
"keen as mustard"
"nutty as fruitcake"
grace said over salad: "lettuce pray"
What about blind children wanting to become pilots?
It only takes one valid example to swoop the "be all you want to be" bullshit off the table.
Thats like saying what about all those people who wanna breath in space w/o a space suit. Or what about those people who wanna be olympic sprinters but are paralyzed. Or wait, what about those people who wanna fly but don't have wings
Obviously there are exceptions but for the most part its still true.
If your ambitions are to be a welder, a hotel maid or a crack prostitute, then yes, you can be all you want to be.
For the rest it's still heavily curtailed by who you are, where you came from, what you've learned and more importantly, what you can actually do.
i wish to be 6'8" one day
but i dont think it will happen...
but if i want to bad enough, will it?
but i dont think it will happen...
but if i want to bad enough, will it?
Usually people will not be what they want to be. It's a sad truth. I know many people who used to dream about 1 single thing for their whole lives, did everything to make that happen and eventually failed miserably. Sometimes when you focus too much on one thing and fail you find out that you lack any other skills. You're fucked.
I guess that "You can be everything you want to be" fucked a lot of lives.
On the other hand they were dumb enough to believe it so maybe they deserved it.
I guess that "You can be everything you want to be" fucked a lot of lives.
On the other hand they were dumb enough to believe it so maybe they deserved it.
Yeah really, I read that you have a better chance of hitting the Jackpot Lottery for $50 million than you would making it in professional sports.
Yeah, even a simple math sum tells us the following for the States:
Let's take the 4 biggest (Baseball, basketball, footbaaawww and ice hockey). Given the fact that B-ball and hockey is league-wise "shared" with Candada (right?), we'll be royal and say there are 40 teams per discipline. That's 160 sports teams. Every team employs like what? About 60 serious athletes?
That boils down to about 10.000 professional athletes.
On a population of 300 million plus.
OK, all this cliche-badgering is starting to piss me off so I'll state the obvious which you guys clearly don't understand.
The cliche you guys are arguing about is used as a MOTIVATIONAL TOOL, not meant to bear a universal truth. Cliches vary in terms of what they mean to portray but this specific cliche you guys are arguing about is not meant to represent truth.
Duke, I can't believe you're even engaging in this stupid argument.
The cliche you guys are arguing about is used as a MOTIVATIONAL TOOL, not meant to bear a universal truth. Cliches vary in terms of what they mean to portray but this specific cliche you guys are arguing about is not meant to represent truth.
Duke, I can't believe you're even engaging in this stupid argument.
Sofi, to me it's quite fucked that something that is supposed to motivate you is a terrible lie. Some are so unbelievably stupid that it's ridiculous that somebody uses them in real life for any other reason than jokes or old wannabe-chinese-master movies. How is that supposed to motivate somebody with a tiny bit of intelligence?
If someone struggles to achieve something you might say "you can do it" if it's something that's not out of his reach. If it's something close to impossible it's just illogical and any examples/movies that show people who made it regardless of 1/99999999999 chances just prove how immature and irresponsible those people are.
If someone struggles to achieve something you might say "you can do it" if it's something that's not out of his reach. If it's something close to impossible it's just illogical and any examples/movies that show people who made it regardless of 1/99999999999 chances just prove how immature and irresponsible those people are.
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