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OPM Disability Retirement: Confirmation of Worth

Posted onJanuary 2, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Diamonds demand it and markets survive by it; investments grow or shrink according to assessed worth, and relationships are maintained by the relative perspective of individuals entangled. Worth, or the value of a thing, is determined in a capitalist society as a result of increase in demand, and scarcity of supply. But what of the worth of an individual, as opposed to an inanimate object? Do we treat it in the same manner? Should it be? […]

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Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Explosions of Reality, Containers of Fantasy

Posted onDecember 19, 2014December 31, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

It is often the converse; as reality is that which constitutes the universe of the knowable, it is that which is contained and determinably set within the parameters of perception; likewise, we normally consider fantasy as that which cannot be contained, and therefore is unstable and likened to a detonated delinquency of diverted desires. But in limited situations, of lost hope, where youth and the vigor of expectations yet unfulfilled, and anticipated future strivings are cut short by the tragedy of circumstances unexpected and of sudden termination unrealized, it is the very disintegration and deterioration of reality which constitutes the tragedy, and its mirror image of dreams unfulfilled. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: The Biography of T. Chemelwoot

Posted onDecember 3, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney5 Comments

He was a person who “gave his all” each day as he quietly and competently performed his duties. The accolades came slowly, but consistently, and with laudatory praises over the years; with cash incentives and awards, and performance ratings where negative criticisms were dotted as mere formalities because the belief that perfection is impossible to achieve is mandated more by modesty than by reality of circumstances. Never one to talk too much about one’s personal life, the photographs of his wife and children declared the stability of his personal bubble, and reflected who he was and where he was going. […]

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