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Randy D

What is an example of you figuratively swimming against the tide in any way during your lifetime?

 


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Posted - July 25, 2021
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  • 13395
    Once I became addicted to alcohol I was always 'swimming against the tide'. There wasn't much chance of me being successful at anything.
      July 25, 2021 9:33 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    You're sober now, yes? 

      July 25, 2021 10:40 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Yes I been sobered up for almost 4 years now.
      July 25, 2021 11:25 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    You're brave and strong! Keep up the good work!!
      July 25, 2021 11:27 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Ok.. thank-you!
      July 26, 2021 3:50 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    Harder to think of times when I've not felt that way until a few years ago. 

      July 25, 2021 10:42 PM MDT
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  • 44652
    I am swimming against my aging body and constant pain.
      July 26, 2021 7:49 AM MDT
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  • That's a tough swim!  I have to join you in that ... growing old is constantly feeling like you're swimming upstream.
      July 26, 2021 4:09 PM MDT
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  • Well, I guess my lack of interest in dating or sex has been an example of me "going against the grain" or whatever the similar metaphor may be. :)
      July 26, 2021 9:36 AM MDT
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  • 53526

     

      Would “swimming against the tide” be the metaphor?
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      July 26, 2021 9:59 AM MDT
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  • I think it works in this case, yes.
      July 26, 2021 10:24 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    Don't you mean "swimming against the tilde"?
      July 26, 2021 2:28 PM MDT
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  • 53526

    Lol, that’s just plain crazy. 

      July 27, 2021 6:18 AM MDT
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  • 23650

    I've been swimming against the tide on this one for my entire life, through even today.

    I'll share a picture of my favorite weather/sky/beautiful weather.
    And I've been specifically "told" by the 'general public,' meteorologists, folk lore, fiction, music, etc., that I am wrong with the weather I find beautiful.




    86,400+ Grey Cloudy Sky Stock Photos, Pictures & Royalty-Free Images - iStock | Grey sky


      May 30, 2023 3:51 PM MDT
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  • 5451
    Enjoy that cloudy day!  My husband also prefers cloudy days.
      May 30, 2023 5:42 PM MDT
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  • 23650
    Thanks, I will!
    I look forward to the next cloudy day! It's been six days in a row of very warm and not-a-cloud-in-the-sky weather  -- ug.  :)


    And feel free to tell your husband I'm glad I'm not alone on the weather preference. 
      May 31, 2023 7:06 PM MDT
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  • 5451
    Growing up, I was a free-range kid in a sea of kids with helicopter parents.

    I was an out-of-place parochial school student.  In parochial schools, the pastor’s kid is always the most popular kid.  I didn’t think he was that great.  I hung around the unpopular kid.  He was the most fun and interesting kid.

    I have lots unpopular opinions.  I think the US should switch to metric system, a position supported by only 21% of the people in the US.

    Politics are a lost cause to me.  The candidate isidewith.com says that I agree with the most (74%) is currently polling at 1%.  However, isidewith.com has been excellent at predicting the Democratic Party presidential nominees for me.  The candidates I agreed with the least won the primary the last two times.  It’s amazing how that works, lol.
      May 30, 2023 5:37 PM MDT
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