Well, I can't compartmentalize worth crap, so that likely had something to do with it.
And even if we're just talking RL - what about writing vs paying job vs family - I know people who are very happy with their situations in one or all of those, but how do we define 'success' in each of those - is a person who is married with childern and happy about it more successful than a person who is single and unattached and happy about it? Is a person with a 'good' job and happy about it more successful than a disabled stay-at-home who is *quite* content with just breathing and typing, thank you, and astonished that she's still doing that, after all she's gone through?
(There was a survey done some years back, which tried to define 'successful parenting' - which ended up using, I think, "drug-free, never incarcerated, high school graduate and continously employed" as their standard of a "successful end product" of parenting. So. *shrugs*)
Re: Success
And even if we're just talking RL - what about writing vs paying job vs family - I know people who are very happy with their situations in one or all of those, but how do we define 'success' in each of those - is a person who is married with childern and happy about it more successful than a person who is single and unattached and happy about it? Is a person with a 'good' job and happy about it more successful than a disabled stay-at-home who is *quite* content with just breathing and typing, thank you, and astonished that she's still doing that, after all she's gone through?
(There was a survey done some years back, which tried to define 'successful parenting' - which ended up using, I think, "drug-free, never incarcerated, high school graduate and continously employed" as their standard of a "successful end product" of parenting. So. *shrugs*)
- hg