Money is nothing
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here's a true story for you....
last year i went skiing with a few guys, all great skiers. one guy, an internist, hit a tree and thought he just had the wind knocked out of him and some cracked ribs. now, this is a guy who is a super high achiever...a great athlete, an MD, etc. he never gets check-ups himself. after getting home from the ski trip he is still in quite a bit of pain, but shrugs it off as "cracked ribs that will just take time to heal". his wife pleads with him to go get checked-out, but he refuses. about 2 weeks later the pain gets suddenly worse and he discovers a lot of blood in his poop. his wife takes him to the ER and they discover he had a perforated pancreas (i think that's what it was, not sure) and they have to perform emergency surgery on him because the internal bleeding was quite bad. he probably would of died if it wasn't taken care of.
lucky for you, hope they get u for the next one
OP, I have sympathy for your father's close call.
Ice, esp. black ice, is quite sinister and a lot people have inadequate winter driving experience.
It helps to practice in an empty parking lot in snowy conditions to get a feel for how your car handles. Get a feel for how your anti-lock brakes feel when they kick in.
When in doubt, just drive very very slowly and use 2nd gear. Most people are just going too fast and often have crappy no-grip tires.
Ice, esp. black ice, is quite sinister and a lot people have inadequate winter driving experience.
It helps to practice in an empty parking lot in snowy conditions to get a feel for how your car handles. Get a feel for how your anti-lock brakes feel when they kick in.
When in doubt, just drive very very slowly and use 2nd gear. Most people are just going too fast and often have crappy no-grip tires.
Quote from kxvid:
I was looking over my positions this morning, and see than I'm down a few hundred on a YM position. Then I get the news that my dad crashed his truck driving home at 2 am in the morning. He hit ice and slid off the road, almost flipped and crashed. He refused to go to the hospital when the paramedics came and drove his truck home even though the airbags had deployed.
I was angry about my losses before then but I realized how much more upset I would be if something happened to my father. I couldn't care less about a few hundred bucks on the YM or my entire account or savings for that matter. In any civilized country like america if you lose all your money you won't starve. You will be poor but you'll still have your friends and family.
Money should be something we are eager to get just for it's utility, but we should recognize how meaningless it really is if we lose it. If you lose money trading, I don't think you should spend one second being unhappy or cursing. When you think about how much more valuable the well being of a friend or family member is compared to your net liquidation value, you will realize this. It wouldn't matter if I was a billionaire, simple things like the health of my dad would be more valuable to me than all my money.
thanks for reading
Sounds like you are trying to justify the relative unimportance of your compulsive gambling habit to the health of your loved ones.
They are in different spheres, but a proper perspective doesn't change the fact that you might be down a slippery slope. (The only reason I say this is because you are prompted to post here justifying the devaluation of your losses...)