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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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Steven
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goddamnit
tomorrow ...actually today since it's passed midnight... is the last day of the 1 week vacation we had between the first and the second semester... FUUUCK!!! this week's been so relaxing and it felt so good not having to wake up at 7:00am :(
next vacation we get is on easter in April i think... anyway, its the LAST highschool year, so i got like 4 months of school and then im free, i just hope to pass the highschool leaving exam
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Yas
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Re: goddamnit
Hey, I know how you feel. Everyday you get up and drag yourself to school it's another day closer to actually getting out of there. I know it's such a simple philosophy but it's so true. Just imagine how great it's gonna be when you graduate from high school and you're FREE!
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Trar
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Re: goddamnit
Yas Wrote:Hey, I know how you feel. Everyday you get up and drag yourself to school it's another day closer to actually getting out of there. I know it's such a simple philosophy but it's so true. Just imagine how great it's gonna be when you graduate from high school and you're FREE!
Why bother going through 12 years of hell, when you know you don't need it and you know you can get out of it? It's like that old saying, "if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding". I hate pudding, and the meat's probably rancid. So why bother?
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Yas
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Re: goddamnit
Trar Wrote:Yas Wrote:Hey, I know how you feel. Everyday you get up and drag yourself to school it's another day closer to actually getting out of there. I know it's such a simple philosophy but it's so true. Just imagine how great it's gonna be when you graduate from high school and you're FREE!
Why bother going through 12 years of hell, when you know you don't need it and you know you can get out of it? It's like that old saying, "if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding". I hate pudding, and the meat's probably rancid. So why bother?
Not everyone can get out of school, not everyone can have the oppurtunity to get home schooled and the age of dropping out in the US varies from the age of 16/18, not to mention the social stigma you get from dropping out. Why bother? Because, if we're going to be stuck in something we hate, it's good to have support and encouragement rather than to feel trapped. What would you rather, to look on the sunny side of the street when you're physically stuck somewhere, or to just feel an impending sense of doom? Not everyone is priveledged to get out of school that easily.
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