No insult was meant.
However you have made several self pitying remarks. You're right - I would never have reached my current position by feeling sorry for myself.
I never compared you directly to
@Arkangeloid; he had a strong penchant for self pity and every thread hosted pages and pages of responses to him. designed to flatter and make him feel better. He seemed not to appreciate it. My comment was meant simply to note that I/we should not spend valuable bandwidth stroking your ego. No one hates you here.
Finally perhaps I am still bristling from a conversation with the surgeon we hired last year. She's not successful and instead of taking responsibility for her lackadaisical marketing she chooses to wallow in self pity and claim "no ones helping me. This after months of meetings designed to help, all of the partners calling colleagues asking them to refer to her, asking the CMO of one of the hospitals to market with her, after
I set up a party at Ann Taylor to help her market and all of us have asked our front office to divert patients to her. So I'm a bit tired of self pity today; it was not meant personally and I apologize if I hurt your feelings.