CIC, gently here, did you read ALL the posts? Did you comprehend them? From your post I doubt it.
Obviously Saul Alinsky is the new poster kid for debate style?
Grow up never! Kids have dreams! Adults have excuses or worse yet lawyers for their failings.
Will continue with help from Sisyphe to acheive my goals on my terms, my choices. Failure does not come from attempting to acheive something and not reaching the goal. Effort alone is sucess.
Maybe original poster was looking for help/encouragement and not an excuse to give up trying to be where he was before.
"I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh to the father except by me." John 14:6
Only one way = intellectual constipation!