It is not a determination which one makes about one’s self; one cannot “discard” one’s own life anymore than you can assert the existence of a twin brother merely because you see an image of yourself in the mirror.
One can, of course, do all sorts of things that are deemed detrimental to one’s own self-interest — of self harm; of abandonment of a career; of making bad decisions and refusing to follow sound advice, etc. But from the perspective of the person deemed to have made such bad decisions, such choices never rise to the level of discarding one’s life; it is merely the judgment and conclusion of others who deem that, in the aggregate, the decisions adopted are regarded in terms of discarded lives.
Everyone always has advice to freely give; whether they accept and live by their own advice is a separate matter.
If we were to have a bird’s-eye view from far above, of all of the decisions we have made in our lives, we would see a continuum of bifurcated forks that leave behind abandoned trails and pathways that were never taken. Had we taken them, would our lives be any different? Probably. It is when we have taken too many of the “wrong turns” that a conclusion is finally reached: Of a life once so promising, and now no longer but merely one of the many discarded lives.
For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who feel that the Federal Agency they work for or the Postal facility they have toiled under have abandoned them and have considered them to be a “discarded life” — not for any particular decision you have made, but because of a medical condition that prevents you from performing one or more of the essential elements of your Federal or Postal job — you may want to consider preparing an effective Federal Disability Retirement application, to be filed with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
To give up and abandon a benefit you worked so hard to attain would be tantamount to agreeing that you are one of the “discarded lives” out there; to fight for the benefit is to assert your worth and a refutation of a judgment by others that yours is another discarded life to be ignored.
Sincerely,
Robert R. McGill, Esquire
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