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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 559846, member: 16510&quot;]<i>Having an attitude, my old self, I kind of miss it, do you&#039;all have any suggestions for me to fill that void.&nbsp; <b>I&#039;ve been nice all week and I miss being confrontational, cynical, grandiose, ego driven - feel like I&#039;m gonna sink into to a deep dark depression down here, whoa is me.&nbsp; No longer do have the carefree ways of challenging and bashing peoples coins and favorite issues.&nbsp; No more Ike bashing for me.&nbsp; Gone are days of carefree running down all commemoratives.&nbsp; No blasts on modern coinage.&nbsp; No more disparaging comments about the TPG companies - a part of me is gone, oh know!!!</b></i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Actually, this is as much in jest as it is true and a learning process, and a good one for me.&nbsp; Coin Talk members have helped me learn I can give my opinion without, (at least most of the time) running down someones favorite coin issues.&nbsp; It really is much more important to learn restraint, caution of tongue, respect for others, and ultimately earn respect than it ever is to say &quot;whatever just feels good&quot; in the moment.</p><p>It&#039;s a funny thing when a body learns, then must continually re-learn lessons in life. In regards to grandiosity, it was once the very thing that helped me survive childhood, a family members suicide, drug addiction, and the recovery of such, many years of fast, hard living - a life I would not wish on anyone proving for all time that &quot;luck&quot; is always better than being good.</p><p>All this proves that the very things that once helped me survive are no longer needed and are in fact a character defects not an assets.&nbsp; But I still need people to point out to me when I follow old familiar ways as you did so tactfully on Coin Talk.</p><p>I won&#039;t be around much till Sunday or Monday because of my show Sat. but will re-join you folks on Monday.</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Ben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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