I did just fine without..... must have been some of that thinking I am lacking????
Yeah pulling a gun / knife isn't the smartest thing as it leaves only one good option after that.....
Yet having them ready is a good thing and it involves some of that thinking I seem to be lacking.....
No I wasn't broke, but I also wasn't going to be hustled / pressured into giving up my goods for someone who wasn't trying in life......
As to how far I made it in life, it was due to hard work, ignoring for the most part ihits who think life is pleasant / soft / and people are nice. They are not. PERIOD
Go to a 3rd world country and live their lives for a year or two and you will begin to understand just how hard and mean people are and that the world as a whole is unjust in nature as the smartest and strongest survive...... I have been put to those tests and survived.
I am betting you have never had that happen to you. All you really know is the glowing golden age of America in its peak prosperity......that leaves you lacking... in many aspects....
I've already explained that I haven't ever had that happen to me.
And, I don't wish to go to a 3rd world country, nor have a 2nd world country come to me, that some of America has turned into. Where I live, it is a lower (maybe lowest) middle class neighborhood. We are here, because this is what we can afford. But, we are going to do everything in our power to stay away from 3rd world conditions or inner city conditions. We don't outwardly display wealth, so thieves basically leave our neighborhood alone. A police car comes through once a month, driving down maybe one in every 3 or 4 streets, spends about 30 seconds, here, and then leaves. I don't think they even cruise through in the winter time. If there is crime, it might be mostly domestic abuse, but no one is going to gossip about it.
While my neighborhood is mostly white, there are Blacks and Hispanics, here, that fled those inner cities. They don't want any part of that violent culture, and therefore don't want it coming here. We all look out for each other, rather than being selfish and only looking out for one's self. Only looking out for one's self seems to be the constant feature of cultures of greed, violence and only the strongest surviving. We don't want to live like that. A group of people looking out for each other is much stronger. Where I live, people are nice. PERIOD. Perhaps you just haven't experienced going out of one's way to be nice and helpful to those around you. It takes a lot more work than just being selfish, and there is no guarantee of a reward.
And, you don't know about my life and peak prosperity. For starters, I've never owned a car. I've never had a job that paid much more than minimum wage. I wouldn't call my life prosperous in any shape or form. Just frugally content, that's all. That's all I want or need. I have what many of the rich can never have, I have enough. I lead a peaceful life. I lack for nothing, in any aspects, other than perhaps being very blunt when it comes to interacting with people online. I am trying to shock people into doing more thinking rather than reacting to their "feels". Face to face, I never act this way.
You are correct in saying that you seem to be lacking some thinking. How would you have only one good option, if you pulled a knife, and then he pulled a gun? That's the kind of blunt talk that I use, in order to get them to think about thinking.