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To: J. P. who wrote (5489)	9/20/2002 10:01:13 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

if only we could all live as smart and well as you. If only all our lives could set up the circumstances to be as, well, prudent as you. You think I learned about how to deal with money by not making dumb mistakes myself? I've made them all and suffered the consequences. While when I bought my houses in a debt free state I've since had a few big holes to climb out of associated with my business and certainly my history of paying off those student loans was less than stellar (just ask the collector who used to call me every single month). Its an unfortunate part of human nature that people learn best from their own experience. What's even more painful is that you can know that something has the chance of ending poorly yet you find yourself falling into the trap anyway. At least until you say to yourself, enough is enough and you don't want to live that way anymore. I've met people who had gotten themselves into holes so deep they thought they never could get out. I've had friends who thought the best way out of their circumstance for themselves and their families was to off themselves so their families could get the insurance. Maybe you know what its like to try to talk an old friend who you used to admire and look up to as an example of how to live talk about suicide to get out of a money problem out of control. I can tell you its the worst thing in the world. My brother-in-law wasn't so much stupid and naughty as he spent most of his life thinking he had to do this or that. After all he was doing pretty much what everyone around him was doing, what everyone around him wanted him to do. He just never asked himself a very simple question until he got older and hit bottom. He never asked himself, "Why do I feel I have to live like this?" He forgot that he had a choice.