I'm not doing this at all to start drama, create an internet SHIIIIITSTOOORRRRM or any of that. I ... had to make a decision, and it wasn't one I could make lightly. I had to think this through carefully. This is essentially (a summary of) my thought process for the past couple of days.
One thing that makes me feel TURBO SHITTY is how quickly everyone ditched out. I dunno, I guess they could have tried more. I really don't know. I don't know all the details because I wasn't around much. I remember receiving a pm from Olf "You need to stop associating with Sekoku. Thanks." That pissed me off. I like Olf. He's smart and amusing and a decent (if odd) person, but no one tells me who I need to associate with (or not), except me. I had to come to the decision myself.
Now I know that the kind of people that populate (in more than one way, hohoho) #forum-m are at best "fair-weather" friends. As long as things are peachy keen and you agree with whatever crap is being spewed, you're all one great big happy family, tugging and jerking each other's willy-pink until you all orgasm all over each other. Fuck, get Link and TSO in a room and watch the mutual cocksucking GO. Hook a generator up and make some electricity, guys. You'll make millions. Watch the suckup dipshits cozy up to them to get a drop of whatever it is they're selling sometime: it turns the stomach to see people that do that for a bunch of self-serving retards. On the other hand, things go sour for someone and watch them scatter like roaches when the lights come on.
I know I'm better than that, so I don't fall in line with the rest of the dodo birds.
So he says to me,
"Nestor, I don't like people. They talk to me. They want me to do things for them. They should all go away and die."
"So does that mean you want me to go away and die? I mean, I guess I'm pretty much one of a scant few that still talk to you."
"I dunno." ¯\(°_o)/¯
"Come on, man. Simple yes or no question. The light is on, the light is off. black or white. you want me to fuck off and die?"
"I dunno." ¯\(°_o)/¯
So there's that.
Secondly: I talked to my roommate and I say, "You know more about community-oriented activities and groups than I do. There's a guy I know in Florida that can't find a job because he's deaf. What sort of organizations are there-"
"Vocational Rehab. They're all over the place. They can train a construction worker that's been paralyzed into.. I dunno, like an over-the-phone PC tech. Finding a job for a deaf person is probably stupid-easy."
"Is that it?"
"No, but it's a start. Salvation Army, Deseret Industries, Goodwill, there are communities and places all over that specifically work with people with disabilities. All he has to do is lift a finger."
I've talked to him before about this. His response was laziness, pure and simple. So there's that, too. Hell, there's one right there in Gainesville, across the street from the Thornebrook shopping center.
I'm a genius, believe it or not. Really. TURBO SMART. I'm so busy thinking TURBO SMART THOUGHTS that I never asked the question: If all the help you offer, all the support you extend going to be casually discarded or outright ignored, why offer it in the first place?
The answer is simple: I'm an inherently good person. I don't need a church or a god or someone else telling me; I know. I'll help where I can because I can, As long as me being nice doesn't harm me in any way, and if it doesn't take me out of my way, then I'm one helpful bastard. This is who I am by default.
At the same time, though, I'm a pragmatic and believe in equal returns: e.g. I help you, and in the future when I need it, you extend the same courtesy.
The best way to help someone in some cases is to avoid them at all costs. Helping someone engenders complacency, enables dependency, and doesn't do anything but ultimately weaken someone in the long run. The best way to help someone is to avoid them completely, as it teaches them self-reliance, independent action, proactive thinking, and self-confidence.
So while I feel like I am a terrible person for... you know, more or less cutting my ties after everyone else did, but I can at least feel hopeful that he'll do the right thing.
One thing that makes me feel TURBO SHITTY is how quickly everyone ditched out. I dunno, I guess they could have tried more. I really don't know. I don't know all the details because I wasn't around much. I remember receiving a pm from Olf "You need to stop associating with Sekoku. Thanks." That pissed me off. I like Olf. He's smart and amusing and a decent (if odd) person, but no one tells me who I need to associate with (or not), except me. I had to come to the decision myself.
Now I know that the kind of people that populate (in more than one way, hohoho) #forum-m are at best "fair-weather" friends. As long as things are peachy keen and you agree with whatever crap is being spewed, you're all one great big happy family, tugging and jerking each other's willy-pink until you all orgasm all over each other. Fuck, get Link and TSO in a room and watch the mutual cocksucking GO. Hook a generator up and make some electricity, guys. You'll make millions. Watch the suckup dipshits cozy up to them to get a drop of whatever it is they're selling sometime: it turns the stomach to see people that do that for a bunch of self-serving retards. On the other hand, things go sour for someone and watch them scatter like roaches when the lights come on.
I know I'm better than that, so I don't fall in line with the rest of the dodo birds.
So he says to me,
"Nestor, I don't like people. They talk to me. They want me to do things for them. They should all go away and die."
"So does that mean you want me to go away and die? I mean, I guess I'm pretty much one of a scant few that still talk to you."
"I dunno." ¯\(°_o)/¯
"Come on, man. Simple yes or no question. The light is on, the light is off. black or white. you want me to fuck off and die?"
"I dunno." ¯\(°_o)/¯
So there's that.
Secondly: I talked to my roommate and I say, "You know more about community-oriented activities and groups than I do. There's a guy I know in Florida that can't find a job because he's deaf. What sort of organizations are there-"
"Vocational Rehab. They're all over the place. They can train a construction worker that's been paralyzed into.. I dunno, like an over-the-phone PC tech. Finding a job for a deaf person is probably stupid-easy."
"Is that it?"
"No, but it's a start. Salvation Army, Deseret Industries, Goodwill, there are communities and places all over that specifically work with people with disabilities. All he has to do is lift a finger."
I've talked to him before about this. His response was laziness, pure and simple. So there's that, too. Hell, there's one right there in Gainesville, across the street from the Thornebrook shopping center.
I'm a genius, believe it or not. Really. TURBO SMART. I'm so busy thinking TURBO SMART THOUGHTS that I never asked the question: If all the help you offer, all the support you extend going to be casually discarded or outright ignored, why offer it in the first place?
The answer is simple: I'm an inherently good person. I don't need a church or a god or someone else telling me; I know. I'll help where I can because I can, As long as me being nice doesn't harm me in any way, and if it doesn't take me out of my way, then I'm one helpful bastard. This is who I am by default.
At the same time, though, I'm a pragmatic and believe in equal returns: e.g. I help you, and in the future when I need it, you extend the same courtesy.
The best way to help someone in some cases is to avoid them at all costs. Helping someone engenders complacency, enables dependency, and doesn't do anything but ultimately weaken someone in the long run. The best way to help someone is to avoid them completely, as it teaches them self-reliance, independent action, proactive thinking, and self-confidence.
So while I feel like I am a terrible person for... you know, more or less cutting my ties after everyone else did, but I can at least feel hopeful that he'll do the right thing.
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