Is it normal to think that life is a ladder?

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life is a ladder and at birth you start out at the bottom, not knowing anything but being essentially a sponge and it is your "job" to learn and grow and get higher up the ladder by acquiring more skills and knowledge so that you can go up this ladder of life. Sometimes, if you are not fast enough or if you make a mistake you can and will take a step back on the ladder, but hopefully you find another way to go up again and pursue it.....along the way you look up to the people ahead of you on the ladder, the people who have done more, know more, have a high skill set/knowledge base than you. They are your teachers/mentors/people you want to emulate you do everything to learn as much as you can from these people so that eventually you can and will surpass them and when you do, there will be more people to look up to and you just keep going and going and going until your life is over and the ladder no longer holds meaning and you jump off of it and onto a new ladder in a different life.

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  • disthing
    10 years ago

    The ladder analogy isn't new, especially in regards to careers.

    Tim from The Office said, "It's better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb, than half way up a ladder you don't."

    I think it's a positive way to look at life - that you are on the ascent rather than the decline. You have to work to climb higher, or you just stay still. Each rung of the ladder is one step closer to fulfilment. But the ladder is always there, as tall or short as you want it to be.

    And when you get to the top, you dive headfirst off.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    My life sometimes feels like Jacobs ladder.

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  • Short4Words
    10 years ago

    Lord Baelish?

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  • Hugh*Janus
    10 years ago

    No.

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  • green_boogers
    10 years ago

    Go find a way to quantify contraindications. You sound in awe of your own subjective impressions.

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      Do you talk to your robotic mother with that mouth?

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      • green_boogers
        10 years ago

        Yes. Are you a delusional drifter?

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        • [Old Memory]
          10 years ago

          No but I once saw a drifter type giving a hand job to a guy in The park once.

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          • green_boogers
            10 years ago

            I suppose they were improving life one wank at a time.

            Just a suggestion - why not head out to Colorado and get into the ladder of dope? You could make life dreamier for lots of drifters.

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  • Holzman_67
    10 years ago

    “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
    ― John Lennon

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    Screw the ladder I will live my own way. I'll just take the escalator or elevator thank you.

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  • imadragon
    10 years ago

    That is typically something a person with high confidence but low self-esteem would believe.

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  • Aliceee93
    10 years ago

    I think I fell of theee ladder, hit my head and now i cannot for the life of me remember my name or when i was born. Dohh

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      Haha.

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      • Aliceee93
        10 years ago

        :P

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