He's not whining about anything except his own failure to take control of his life. I don't think he's blaming the client at all, just himself for wanting to ingratiate himself to the client when A) there's greater priorities, and B) the client probably won't care much, if at all.
And my point is that it doesn't sound like it was a really major failure. The way the article is written sounds like emo drama making a mountain of a molehill.
But I might need to bow out of this discussion as I get the impression my pov is neither understood nor appreciated. I was always there for my kids. They are 22 and 25 and I have their undying loyalty. We are currently homeless together. They have other options. They could stay with their father (where I am unwelcome) or try to get into a shelter without me. I could also try to get into a shelter without them (or take some guy up on offers to go home with him). No one will take us as a group. We won't split up. Most people do not understand our loyalty to each other. A public forum is probably not the place to try to express what that grows out of. Suffice it to say we all know we can count on each other in ways we cannot count on anyone or anything else.
"And my point is that it doesn't sound like it was a really major failure. The way the article is written sounds like emo drama making a mountain of a molehill."
I think I do understand your point of view, could be wrong, but in summary it sounds like "hey things could be way worse, get over it."
The challenge I have is that while it is true that this particular problem for the OP was less 'problem' than say 'losing your hands in a freak wood chipper accident', the author was still trying to glean some life lessons from it. The particular lesson they were focused on was the need to have priorities come from inside rather than outside.
You've had a harder time of it than the OP, but that doesn't change the lesson that they learned, or the significance of learning it.
No, that isn't my attitude at all. But he compares himself to Ghandi and, in comparison, finds himself a failure for attending a meeting. If he learned something, good for him. But I doubt the time he took away from his family really was as significant as he is making it out to be. I wonder if he could have made up for the hour or more loss by, say, writing one less blog post. And I wonder did he really truly learn his lesson or is this overdramatization of the event a continuation of his bad habit.
But have an upvote for attempting to genuinely engage me in conversation in spite of your unfortunate impression that my attitude about this is somehow an ugly thing.
