Vault101 said:
DoomyMcDoom said:
just because I don't like partying does not make me some kind of "anti-substance" stiff who "takes themsefls to serously" I dont take myself seriously at all...
and I'm not anti substance but I'm actually kind of glad my only vice is caffine, and people shouldnt be ridiculed because they DONT want to fill their bodies with poison
I think it dosesnt matter what your doing, its the people your doing it with
so no..I dont liek partying and being surrounded by people I don't know and nodding along in some stupid conversation I really have no place in (or anything to say) and forgive me for getting irritated when somone says otherwise...
You're forgiven, but I think you missed my point... I'm not saying anything against you, I'm just saying, not nessecarily partying, but there's so much out there that makes the joy of gaming feel hollow and weak, not saying that gaming is bad, but if you have the option to try something, or do something or have an adventure, and you don't take it, it's gone, sometimes forrever.
With games, that's their greatest point, they wait for you, you can turn off your system whatever platform console or PC, and when you fire that sucker back up(Or if your like me, and never turn your computer off due to also running servers for friends to use. Sit down at your desk and turn on your monitor.), you are where you were in that game, and you carry on from there, or in the case of more casual or puzzle games, they don't die of old age, they don't abandon you(unless someone steals them from you, that's different.), they're just there.
Friends, social groups, events, and adventures aren't just there, they come and go, so take advantage of them, I for one like to have stories to tell that those who aren't gamers can relate to, or be amazed by, to have learned and experienced as much as I can, and to be able to share what I've learned and or experienced for the benefit of those I love, and those who are in need.
If you've never experienced the thrill of overcoming a challenge with your friends, like a really serious challenge, be it moving, trailblazing, camping out in the bush, climbing a mountain, conquering a trail, or even just finding the time to wind RIGHT down with your mates out in nature and just forget about this high tech urban hell, and just BE.
It hits that same part of the brain that gives you that rush of completing a tricky or downright devilishly hard achievement in a game, or beating it(if it's a the type to beat), or build a frickin huge monument to awesomeness in minecraft, it hits that same mark, but think of game related joy as having a feather fall on you, just a down feather, barely noticeable, now real life adventures, are a piano, those things leaves a fuckin mark, you don't live to forget it.
Of course with the adventures that's just because it's such an indellible memory that you'll die of old age before it fades to nonexistence, whereas with a piano fallin' on you, usually means you die instantly.
And with the anti-substance stiff thing I was talking about how I used to be, and it read the same way it felt to be that way I made the excuse of not being friendly by telling myself how inane and stupid they were and getting all bitter, rather than just going with it, and enjoying it, and when I turned around and saw it years later, and saw how miserable I was in my little bubble hating on the world, I changed, and now I'm happier. Thing is, it's all about learning, I've been through a fair bit of crap in my time, and I've learned from every single event. Some of them I look back on and learn even more, and will probably be learning from most of them for the rest of my life.
in closing of this reply, I don't have anything against people like that either, don't get me wrong, it's just that it's a common character trait in people who are humourless soul-dead boring monotonous lumps of people who've sold out to despair and can no longer find it in themselves to be happy, because Happy and Comfortable are completely different things, happy takes a concerted effort, to see the shit, and rise above it, even if you stepped in it, just wipe it off and forget about it. Comfortable is easy, comfort is limiting, comfort is what you're used to, it's boring, it can't teach you anything, and even though comfort doesn't outright hurt you, you still die all the same.
To live "comfortably" is to live without danger without risk and without growth, to learn nothing and to stay rooted unmoving, and therefor stagnant, and finally to wither. In short, simply to exist.
To really LIVE to live life to the fullest, is to move to learn, to find new things, explore new places, discover, grow, and experience, living is not just existing, it requires a push, but once you get it rolling, it has a great deal of momentum, and it will provide motivation for you as you go.
Chances are nobody is going to remember you or care a couple generations down the line either way, but if you don't really live, and pursue ambitions, to make ambitions for yourself and go for it full tilt, then who'll you have, what'll you have. Nothing, nothing except dementia and sadness...
Ever wonder why so many people nowadays fuck their lives up so much, or why so many people either kill themselves, go "YOLO"(or as I call it join the advanced accidental suicide class), get addicted to drugs and shit, or just pass into the dark grey dim area, where they've wasted their lives consumed by a career, because all those people wasting their time socializing and wasting their money, when they could be saving every penny and working like a slave for money, they don't know what power is, so they're now an executive or a high ranking beaurocrat now, and the only way they get their kicks is setting things up to make those under him suffer, because that's how you feel when you've gone down the path of soul crushing depression, even if it's underlying it dominates your mind, and you start getting this feeling that other people should feel how you feel, maybe then they'd smarten up, and you get all crazy and bitter...
Look, I'm gonna shut up now, cuz I feel like I'm starting to ramble, but seriously I just saw your post as a warning sign of a series of things I've done, and the path I chose for awhile that nearly ruined my life. Just wanted to point it out, being helpful, or at least trying to be.
