Could be something like "It's my ___ to ____"
Or if there's a good word for it to fit into "it's been my ______ and I don't regret it."
Sidenote" Can we agree on an "official" #writebetter___ tag?
Aargh, I know this expression exists!!! Please don't raze your local theater, Mad Max is out in a month and you might miss it.
That's actually a good one too but I think "My burden to bear" is what I was looking for!
I've always liked the phrase, "I'm prepared to go down with the ship". As for a succinct one word expression for the sentiment, I feel like there is one but I can't seem to come up with anything.
"It's my life to live, dammit." or if your decision attempts to be blocked by another person, say, "Can you let a person live?" I'll never forget a dinner when my beloved aunt asked for more dessert and her husband (a renowned scientist) said, "It's not good for you." She looked him straight in the eye and said, "Can you let a person live?" blackfox026's comments are along the same lines.
"My cross to bear"? Not much in the way of benefits there, though. Sounds like a simple "take the good with the bad".
I've always been fond of "I broke it, I bought it." And no. It's writebetterdamnit. I wanted it to be writebetterdammit but dammit, there were other people using that tag so damn it, I conformed like a grownup. You can too. Shit. It appears that caio was the first person to use #writebetterdammit. However, I was the second, the third, the fourth and the fifth. In fact, of the first 20 posts using the tag, thirteen are mine... so in a way, it's kind of my equivalent of #vaguequestionsbypablo. You know what? If it weren't such an obnoxiously-misspelled tag, I doubt I would have given it any effort at all.According to Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell cited the rule in the summer of 2002 when warning President George W. Bush of the consequences of military action in Iraq:
'You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people,' he told the president. 'You will own all their hopes, aspirations, and problems. You'll own it all.' Privately, Powell and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage called this the Pottery Barn rule: You break it, you own it.
Well, yours is the only post I see with the tag #writebetterdammit, while #writebetterdamnit has a long history. So I'd say it's the second one. I can't think of a single word that means that.
I think you have that backward tng. #writebetterdammit has a long history. Several of the oldest ones I can find were made by YOU , This seems to be the oldest one. #writebetterdamnit@ was originally used by forwardslash in the early days of writing better and picked up by a few people occasionally. pablo seems to have invented a new one -- writerbetterdamnit so basically no nit - go with the double m's.... as most of us have done for a very long time especially tng. EDIT Check the history. There are over three pages of dammits, dammit.
Yeah, I reversed it I think. And then last night, while researching this, via my phone, only dammit came up. Odd. Sorry for the confusion lil. I do like dammit, dammit! Have a great day/week. It's a beautiful morning here in nc. Blue skies, birds chirping. You get my postcard yet?
Might've clicked my personal tag, dammit has 106 followers while damnit has only 8! Yet both have plenty of posts.
Thanks, that must have been it. Damm fat fingers!
And can it be consistent with the bebetter one? I would personally be super annoyed if we had, for example, #writebetterdamnit and #bebetterdammitSidenote" Can we agree on an "official" #writebetter___ tag?