Comments on: An Unimagined Success

By: Zac

Zac — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:29:29 +0000

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%E2%80%9CWe+want+to+live+well%2C+but+our+foremost+efforts+should+be+to+help+others+live+well.%E2%80%9D

By: Marcus Brotherton

Marcus Brotherton — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:23:08 +0000

Alex, when I receive comments like yours, I silently remind myself that’s why I write in the first place. Thank you so much. I wish you and your family well.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:25:25 +0000

I have a daughter who is severely mentally and physically handicapped and whose life expectancy is between 8 and 16 years (she turns 7 on July 1st this year). I often feel left behind by peers because I have decided to devote more time to family and less to work (though I’m hardly unsuccessful, just self-limiting). I found this article inspirational because it shows success can be defined outside of monetary and material gain. It also made me feel less alone in my decision.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:48:27 +0000

Fantastic article. Thank you!

By: Claude

Claude — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:36:33 +0000

We need more media folks distributing more stories like this. We get down because of our failures in our careers, or in business, or because someone else has a bigger car or makes more money.

This story is an example of how those things don’t make a meaningful life and its actually pretty easy to do something great.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:40:02 +0000

I should add though, Marcus, great article. It’s a good lesson in what truly makes a great man. Men with that kind of greatness are few and far between.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:24:14 +0000

@ Harrington, every man at some point has to learn that sometimes a question is asked, not so much to find out a fact that wasn’t known, but to raise a deeper issue for consideration. In this case, the question was whether the quotation was actually representative of anything that St. Paul actually said.

Not too long ago there was a world without google in which a question could be asked that had no quick answer. In that world real men put their minds to analyzing real questions.

By: Jim Weller

Jim Weller — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:50:21 +0000

Two things

1. You have to listen to “Something To Be Proud Of” by Montgomery Gentry. The lyrics match this theme perfectly.

2. You should follow the “Detours” shows on Kidsthesedays.org, a Radio Show in Alaska. Sometimes life is crazy and these are archetypical stories in that vein.

http://kidsthesedays.org/podcast/show-82-excerpt-detour-suburban-ohio-remote-alaska-homestead

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:29:11 +0000

It’s people like Toye who hold the world together. Not everybody who keeps standing up when knocked down gets a statue.

By: Benjamin Ionescu

Benjamin Ionescu — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:31:46 +0000

Who can experience the same kind of tragedy and denial that he did, and take it so toughly and still love his son with all his heart like he did and care for him meticulously. I don’t think I could… this article makes me think that I’ve been handed an easy and pleasant life.