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Major Nikon
Nov 2012
OP
There are people out there that are pissed at you for just breathing, and you don't even know them!
Lady Freedom Returns
Nov 2012
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Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)1. I can't think of a time that I've ever felt that way.
Having people pissed at you for whatever reason isn't all that fun.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)2. There are people out there that are pissed at you for just breathing, and you don't even know them!
It's not fun, until you are proven on the right of things. Then It becomes Glory.
And that is the end of my, more than likely, unwanted two cents.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)3. I don't think that's what the OP is saying
It's saying that doing the right thing is glorious even if people hate you for it. It's not about redemption.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)4. But it is a nice perk. n/t
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)5. My dad was a union organizer back in the 1930s and 1940s.
He said, "I always knew I was doing something right whenever someone called me a Communist."
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)6. My dad told me a story
About a guy he worked with that hated FDR so much he would sell all the dimes in his pocket for 8 cents.