Win Win?

[maggiebee]

Read this post today and it resonated with me.

How to win at Life

Step 1:
Let people do what they need to do to make them happy, mind
your own business, and do what you need to make you happy.

The End

[ummmm]

If only it was that easy!

[maggiebee]

Sadly yes Ummmm.

[Theland]

So be selfish?

[Zacs-Master]

But what if them doing something they want makes you unhappy?

[douglas9401]

This from the Bumper Book Of Hippie Philosophy?

[maggiebee]

ZM, thousands of people do things that make me unhappy eg the latest protests. I can't dwell on it though or I would be totally miserable. I prefer to do things that make me happy.

[Mamyalynne]

It's a quote from Leon Brown.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3213972.Leon_Brown

[Mamyalynne]

On a simple level it works, life is rarely that simple sadly but a good place to start from.

[elliemay1]

...and so if a parent sees a child/teenager doing something wrong they should say, 'that's ok as long as it makes you happy.'

[ummmm]

Or your partner wants a bit on the side to make them happy :-)

[douglas9401]

I was right then.

[Spicerack]

Brain dead.

[Mamyalynne]

Feel better soon.

[woofgang]

And if what makes them happy is spousal abuse, paedophilia, making money by pushing drugs, throwing things at police horses, vandalism, spreading computer viruses?

[woofgang]

I just read some of the other quotes.....idiot.

[Mamyalynne]

An idiot he may be, I have never come across him until today but he's a survivor.

// I was born a crack baby, raised in a single-parent household, frequently watched my family members imbibe illegal substances, gun shots in the neighbor were commonplace. I dropped out of high school my sophomore year—I had to in order to survive; my mother abandoned me when I was fifteen. A couple of years later, I received a General Education Diploma (GED). At eighteen, I joined the Navy.//


Other people's lives eh?

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/thabiti-anyabwile/words-in-season-an-interview-with-leon-brown-about-live-and-his-new-book-on-evangelism/

[woofgang]

I am not sure how that quote ties in with evangelism.

[Mamyalynne]

Maybe if we knew the context around what drove him to write it.

Very often quotes are offered up that don't stand alone well.