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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
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No, I'm not happy nor positive all the time nor am I advocating it. Yes, I have my bouts of depression and frustration (Like right now), but this topic was nagging at me for the past couple of weeks.
I like realism, actual realism, not optimism or delusion or whatever, just actual rational thinking.
Eg Me and a friend were making a banner the other day. This friend is overly optimistic. I told him we needed more medium size paintbrushes, because we had 1, and that meant only 1 person can work at a time, defeating the purpose of having 2 people. However, he responded with "doesn't matter".
Then the brush broke, and we ended up painting the thing with huge paintbrushes and a piece of stick, therefore fucking up the whole thing. Simply having 1 extra/spare brush would've saved the banner. I also told him we needed to be careful with spilling paint, he resonded with "it doesn't matter, we'll paint over it", the banner ended up being a massive clusterfuck.
I try to be optimistic in the long term, but if you're doing something you gota be realistic about it. Man didn't go to the Moon by being delusionally optimistic, they were realistic about all the problems involved.
(This post was last modified: 11-24-2011 05:04 PM by psychopath.)
(11-24-2011 05:14 PM)Elfy Wrote: Being positive can motivate you through the realism.
Pretty much this.
Say you're standing in a pile of shit. You can pretend you're not, but that wouldn't really solve it. Instead, acknowledge the reality of the situation but realize that you can step out of the shit and go clean yourself off... it's not like you're stuck there forever.
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