People/Things you changed your mind about

[RonnieTodger]

Tyson Fury - Used to despise the bloke, but when he went to Dusseldorf and turned Klitschko over in front of his own crowd, he backed up all the shite that he talks. Whilst I still cringe at some of his interviews, I can't doubt his abilities.

 

Vegetables - Used to find that they wasted valuable meat/carb space on a plate, but would find a dinner bland without them now.

[Alf Bentley]

3 hours ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Another interesting rely Alf thanks - and more food for thought....

 

I do take your points and no doubt Mac would agree that it's all just about luck anyway 

 

I suppose I've accepted I'm just a grain of sand on the beach like everyone else, but on reflection, maybe I'm talking about realising our personal potential (or not as the case may be)

 

My 'frustration' if that I don't believe I've achieved anywhere near my full potential (especially career wise) and that could be down to bad luck as much as anything else. Although I've done O.K, there's a nagging feeling I should be more and have achieved more. I'm still convinced that if I'd continued on my corporate path before my illness in '04, I'd be a senior director and on the board of a big company by now (and I would have classed that as a decent achievement)

 

Anyway, without wanting to de-rail the thread, the stuff you've done on your family history sounds incredible (now that's a legacy to leave future generations I'd say). My Mother did something similar a few years for our family and it gave her an enormous sense of satisfaction.

 

 

There's some old quote, isn't there, saying "all lives end in failure" or similar? 

Alternatively, maybe most people achieve some degree of success but well short of global renown. Even if it's just being well liked, a good parent/friend, getting a couple of promotions, winning a local sports event or passing on family history info.

 

I know what you mean about potential, but I assume very few people achieve their full potential. I appreciate that maybe health issues have held you back, though, so that must be frustrating....but I'm sure you've had some good luck as well as bad, like me.

I suppose that I could cite the lack of self-confidence that I suffered until my mid/late 20s (or, less creditably, the amount of time wasted on boozing....though that certainly had its positives, too). But I'm at ease with how I've lived my life, warts 'n' all. Just want to use the remainder well.

 

I suppose that we have to concentrate on where we are, not where we might have been - and then work out what, if anything, we want to achieve in the future. Then get on with trying to do that or with appreciating what else life has to offer.

 

 

 

Edited 11 June 2018 by Alf Bentley

[Captain...]

It is interesting to see how people categorise things that you have changed your mind about.

 

I think things like Trump, Mourinho, Gary Glitter. I  don't  think your mind has changed just the context within which you frame your opinion.

eg Gary Glitter you haven't changed your opinion on paedo popstars you have just learned that he is paedo popstar. Mourinho's antics when he is successful have a certain irresistible charm you can't help but enjoy his arrogance and gamesmanship. Now he is producing turgid football he comes across as an insufferable whiny arrogant tw@. He has changed not you.

 

2 things I have changed my mind over:

 

Craft beer: It really is just overpriced hipster rubbish. It tastes no different to a lot of mass produced ales and lagers or it tastes like shite as they have gone overboard on the flavours trying to create a gravy and peach flavoured ale. Sticking craft in front of it doesn't mean anything other than hefty price tag.

 

Coldplay:  Dammit I hate myself, but they are actually really fvcking good.

 

 

Edited 11 June 2018 by Captain...

[CarbonVirtine]

2 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

There's some old quote, isn't there, saying "all lives end in failure" or similar? 

I'm reminded of a 'House' quote - something about death not being as serene as most people hope for, it's in fact horrid and painful. Personally, I'd like to go out in hospital bed drugged up to the max rather than my last sight be of my body parts scattered across the M1... but either way, after the event, the outcome is the same.

 

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Alternatively, maybe most people achieve some degree of success but well short of global renown. Even if it's just being well liked, a good parent/friend, getting a couple of promotions, winning a local sports event or passing on family history info.

That's what I reckon we all ought content ourselves with - and it's achievable by most of us I think. Anything more than that would be a bonus. I can't see me blazing a trail, I rather suspect I'll end in obscurity perhaps remembered ocassionally (for whatever reason) by a select few. Again, won't effect me when I'm gone so it's somewhat moot. 

 

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But I'm at ease with how I've lived my life, warts 'n' all. Just don't want to use the remainder well.

Typo? DO want to use the remainder well??

[AlloverthefloorYesNdidi]

3 minutes ago, Captain... said:

It is interesting to see how people categorise things that you have changed your mind about.

 

I think things like Trump, Mourinho, Gary Glitter. I  don't  think your mind has changed just the context within which you frame your opinion.

eg Gary Glitter you haven't changed your opinion on paedo popstars you have just learned that he is paedo popstar. Mourinho's antics when he is successful have a certain irresistible charm you can't help but enjoy his arrogance and gamesmanship. Now he is producing turgid football he comes across as an insufferable whiny arrogant tw@. He has changed not you.

 

2 things I have changed my mind over:

 

Craft beer: It really is just overpriced hipster rubbish. It tastes no different to a lot of mass produced ales and lagers or it tastes like shite as they have gone overboard on the flavours trying to create a gravy and peach flavoured ale. Sticking craft in front of it doesn't mean anything other than hefty price tag.

 

Coldplay:  Dammit I hate myself, but they are actually really fvcking good.

 

 

 

I changed my mind about this post during its reading  

 

Nice intelligent post with an absolute fluff of a final sentence imo

 

(I try to change my mind about music: shouldnt be judgemental about it and live and let live with it is the proper way forward in that regard, but its a tough habit to break)

[CarbonVirtine]

Just now, AlloverthefloorYesNdidi said:

(I try to change my mind about music: shouldnt be judgemental about it and live and let live with it is the proper way forward in that regard, but its a tough habit to break)

I know what you're saying, and agree.... but Coldplay IS a big ask!

[Captain...]

5 minutes ago, CarbonVirtine said:

I know what you're saying, and agree.... but Coldplay IS a big ask!

Watching them headline galstonbury was the game changer for me, I'd already started liking their newer stuff, but being in a massive field with thousands of people singing along to fix you, tears welling up everyone wearing colour changing wristbands synced to the music.

[thebartonfox]

8 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

Tyson Fury - Used to despise the bloke, but when he went to Dusseldorf and turned Klitschko over in front of his own crowd, he backed up all the shite that he talks. Whilst I still cringe at some of his interviews, I can't doubt his abilities.

Same. I've also weirdly warmed to him as a person. He holds plenty of views that a consider abhorrent, but you can probably argue that's largely down to his unconventional upbringing. Once you get past that, he comes across as a decent person who appreciates what he has in life, is in his own way quite respectful and he seems a loyal and principled person.

 

Massive respect to him for getting back in the ring, even if the fight at the weekend was a complete farce, after everything he's been through as well. That alone would be enough to change my opinion of him, and the interview afterwards cemented that. 

[FoxesDeb]

Being single. When I was younger I thought that being in a couple was the be all and end all. Now I'm older, I've realised that there are lots of positives to it. Similarly, having children. I love all of mine to pieces, but I understand why some people choose not to have them, whereas it was always something I couldn't understand before. 

[Dr The Singh]

India, growing up I watched bollywood movies and got alot of propaganda from my 'indian' friends and so called 'indian' family figures.  I went to India for atleast 6 time before I was 14, and I even turned a blind eye to so many things.  I supported the cricket team  and would defend India to the end, worse still I believed in the false propaganda by the Indian authorities on it's genocidal attack on the Sikhs in the 80's............then I finally found out the truth, I studied the history of my people and realised that all i believed was false, from that day, I would never call myself indian, i am not an indian and nor our my ancestry....

[Soar Fox]

3 hours ago, Dr The Singh said:

India, growing up I watched bollywood movies and got alot of propaganda from my 'indian' friends and so called 'indian' family figures.  I went to India for atleast 6 time before I was 14, and I even turned a blind eye to so many things.  I supported the cricket team  and would defend India to the end, worse still I believed in the false propaganda by the Indian authorities on it's genocidal attack on the Sikhs in the 80's............then I finally found out the truth, I studied the history of my people and realised that all i believed was false, from that day, I would never call myself indian, i am not an indian and nor our my ancestry....