struggles and failures

 
when I look back on "the game" from the fourth quarter I see my life largely as a struggle. a struggle in which I haven't done well. a struggle with self. 

it's not that I haven't "succeeded" in "the game" as far as the rules of the world are concerned. thanks to good parents I had all of the "necessities" of life--a nice home, a good education. I leveraged that good education into "providing" for the "necessities for life" for my wife and children. 

but what about life beyond the "necessities of life"? relationships? kindness? caring? integrity? fairness? loving? my responsibility for others in the world who are struggling for the "necessities in life"? poverty? hunger? homelessness? oppression? deprivation? freedom? justice? education? 

the nightmares don't help. 



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