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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;contrarian740, post: 1338095, member: 35150&quot;]Relax jcb, you&#039;re normal. People your own age are your competition and one ups-man-ship is the order of the day. As long as it doesn&#039;t get carried away I wouldn&#039;t be so sensitive about it. The only statements you made that I might focuss on would be expectations, and another that sounds a bit paranoid. Expectations are nothing but a big con job a person inflicts upon themself. No one on this Earth owes anyone else on this Earth an obligation to be someone other than who they are. Harboring expectations do nothing but bring dissapointment. This doesn&#039;t mean for you to tolerate bad behavior, it means stop setting yourself up with expectations no one knows you harbor and couldn&#039;t or wouldn&#039;t measure up to even if they did ... period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next is the suspicion you express when someone asks a harmless question like &quot;how long have you been collecting.&quot; If there&#039;s reason to be suspicious from past experience, that&#039;s OK. More than likely it&#039;s just as I said, a harmless question ... and perhaps you&#039;re too focussed on meeting <b>THEIR </b>expectations. Don&#039;t try, it&#039;s not important anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>For what it&#039;s worth, everyone here has felt the same as you&#039;ve expressed at one time or another. We&#039;d all like to preach humility and profess to live it, but few ever do. There are times when I&#039;m humble, but often one ups-man-ship prevails and that&#039;s especially true as you age and reminiss. It would seem the older I get ...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>The Better I Was!</b><font size="2"></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font size="2"><font size="3">Rick</font></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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