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Originally Posted by Stingray
We will deal one of two pains. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The great thing is we get to choose.
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Now that we have segued into psychoanalysis, I'll expand. A good way to prepare for tough choices is to imagine the worse that could happen. If you can live with that outcome, then you can choose with more logic than emotion. I chose to speak out. They chose to ease me out. So be it. It was my choice.
When relating my analysis to a friend, he suggest that my story reminded him of the joke about the ship's captain who stayed at the wheel after being torpedoed while shouting, "They didn't sink me,
I'm taking it down."