jim rosinski wrote:

What a profoundly depressing view of one's life.

My mother believes that we inherit all our abilities and can't do any better
than our ancestors. If one of us gets training in something and turns out to be
good at it, she immediately starts trying to figure out which of our ancestors
we "got that from".

George Patterson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned
no other way.