Board Thread:Arguments/@comment-5481445-20151020050113/@comment-5061099-20151024034045

I'm not sure exactly what age the majority of you are (with the exception of Vince), but I'll at least assume high school or below.

On to Vince's reply to my statement (which I refuse to quote because I've never quoted a post before and I don't plan to!), I can tell a lot of you don't quite understsand it. I understand and symphathize with VInce's statement (but honestly, why would you need to discipline people with a kendo stick in college?), so I figured I'd try to interpret it as best I could.

Vince, you isolate yourself. You push yourself down a lot as a way of self-improvement. Everyone does too. Maybe some more than others, but we do it whether we realize it or not. I for one have actually seen results of such things. I openly criticize (did I spell that right?) myself for anything and everything. There's nothing wrong with that.

But sometimes you have to realize that relying on yourself isn't the only option. Sometimes, you need others' help and I'm sure you realize this. Cyber is right in this case, for the team effor thing. Doing things alone has its benefits. When you do something right, you get all the credit. Yet when you do something wrong, you get all the blame. Think about politics for a second. If one monarch rules the country and the economy gets screwed up, everyone blames the monarch. Something similar happened in Germany before world war II. The german citizens were tired of paying the debt they were left with and ridded the old government, making way for the facist party and eventually paving the way to Hitler. This is why I say don't kill yourself over it. Certainly life isn't very fun. Life sucks more than anything in fact. But that's why you need to open up.

I'm sure you want to counterargue with some more "I just don't trust the world". That's fine. I don't trust the world either. Instead I trust those who have a good history with me and I know are willing to help me. But if you never open up, you'll never get to know these people. Life may suck but it's a bunch of possibilities too. Don't hate life. Hate life sometimes. Have some trust in your fellow wikians a litt.e

Ultra