People have tried to make it clear to you, Ion, that you will not be recognized by USMS or SWIM magazine unless you swim a lot faster. They have also tried to point out, in a nutshell, that your attitude comes across as sour grapes.
I am going to postulate that you would like to be recognized for overcoming whatever it is you have overcome. SWIM magazine doesn't have the space to do it. And they certainly don't have the manpower (interviewers and photographers) to cover every story there is to tell, especially in regard to overcoming adversity.
So, here it is. I wish everyone would take the chance to tell their stories. Think of it as a SWIM web page for sharing of personal histories.
I know Tom Ellison has an amazing story that I wish he would put here. I know of many other swimmers who have overcome tremendous adversity. I hope this thread will become an inspiration to us all, and that we will all realize, as I have lately, that: looking at the past can be painful, so don't (as long as you don't repeat it!), who knows what the future holds, so quit worrying about it, and be happy in the present because it's the only thing you really have control over.
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Originally posted by Karen Duggan
Zoomer,
(a calm question- not at all sarcastic, truly) I don't know how you came up with the idea that this thread was to inflame Ion? It was taking a constantly negative "thing" and putting a positive spin on it.
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I agree with Zoomer:
you started this thread with a controversy that I wanted to correct and repeatedly you wrote that I should shut up amongst other flaming things.
As for taking a negative thing and putting a positive spin on it, I wrote about forcing the destiny.
For me, forcing the destiny beats temporal adversities.
It's not being deterministic -as in superstitiously believing that a fairy idol in the sky controls people- but instead it is being in charge with learning material factors.
(This means in my life, forcing myself to learn mathematics and Engineering -whose strict analytical thinking is feared by most people- then risk with it being in a country whose culture is new;
three countries in my life are apart from where I was born, so they are part of me forcing the destiny;
it also means in my life to be in charge to live in a chosen city in the new country by performing the profession that I was trained for in another country;
it also means in my life to take charge of being more ambitious in swimming than most USMS people are -not content with the mentality of 'whatever'- by studying and applying factors like VO2Max.)
I won't be posting in this thread anymore.
Originally posted by Karen Duggan
Zoomer,
(a calm question- not at all sarcastic, truly) I don't know how you came up with the idea that this thread was to inflame Ion? It was taking a constantly negative "thing" and putting a positive spin on it.
...
I agree with Zoomer:
you started this thread with a controversy that I wanted to correct and repeatedly you wrote that I should shut up amongst other flaming things.
As for taking a negative thing and putting a positive spin on it, I wrote about forcing the destiny.
For me, forcing the destiny beats temporal adversities.
It's not being deterministic -as in superstitiously believing that a fairy idol in the sky controls people- but instead it is being in charge with learning material factors.
(This means in my life, forcing myself to learn mathematics and Engineering -whose strict analytical thinking is feared by most people- then risk with it being in a country whose culture is new;
three countries in my life are apart from where I was born, so they are part of me forcing the destiny;
it also means in my life to be in charge to live in a chosen city in the new country by performing the profession that I was trained for in another country;
it also means in my life to take charge of being more ambitious in swimming than most USMS people are -not content with the mentality of 'whatever'- by studying and applying factors like VO2Max.)
I won't be posting in this thread anymore.
