Everyone's back!
I had an awesome day today - much better than the other days. I didn't feel dependant on the same bunch of people I was before -- all of whom seem to be under the leadership (or something) of a person who, I realize now, acknowledges many of the general faults of humanity and our society (putting ourselves first, ignoring people, demanding attention, selfishness, etc) but not that he too is subject to them. With that realization, his ability to hurt me lessened considerably, and may in fact be gone. I pity him now. It's hard to be hurt by people you pity.
In any case, it was really great to meet up again with people who'd gone away and who I didn't even realize I'd missed. Had a wonderful chat with Paul and a friend of his, and joked around with Dan and Frank some, and felt reestablished as an important part of the hall. If there are cliques, then the people I've mentioned in previous posts (and whose leader I now pity) are one of them. Frankly, if they still feel the need to clique up, then maybe they're just not ready for more adult behavior. Hopefully they'll grow out of it before the year is out.
Man, those people keep sidetracking me.
It was really great. I was able to go to dinner with a bunch of people again, and talk and be involved in conversations again, and do my own thing without doing it by myself again, and just... Actually, I really missed the video games.
I know, I know, not the best of things to miss, right? But there, nothing matters but how well you fight, and sometimes even that isn't all that important - like when I set about discovering whether it's possible to jump backwards out of the ring on your own in Soul Caliber II - and it is - and then the person I was fighting generously did the same to put us on equal standing. There's an equality through computers that can't be found anywhere else. The characters and the game overwhelms you, and all you have is fun.
Plus, it's excellent stress-relief.
Oooo, I ~love~ it here!
I had an awesome day today - much better than the other days. I didn't feel dependant on the same bunch of people I was before -- all of whom seem to be under the leadership (or something) of a person who, I realize now, acknowledges many of the general faults of humanity and our society (putting ourselves first, ignoring people, demanding attention, selfishness, etc) but not that he too is subject to them. With that realization, his ability to hurt me lessened considerably, and may in fact be gone. I pity him now. It's hard to be hurt by people you pity.
In any case, it was really great to meet up again with people who'd gone away and who I didn't even realize I'd missed. Had a wonderful chat with Paul and a friend of his, and joked around with Dan and Frank some, and felt reestablished as an important part of the hall. If there are cliques, then the people I've mentioned in previous posts (and whose leader I now pity) are one of them. Frankly, if they still feel the need to clique up, then maybe they're just not ready for more adult behavior. Hopefully they'll grow out of it before the year is out.
Man, those people keep sidetracking me.
It was really great. I was able to go to dinner with a bunch of people again, and talk and be involved in conversations again, and do my own thing without doing it by myself again, and just... Actually, I really missed the video games.
I know, I know, not the best of things to miss, right? But there, nothing matters but how well you fight, and sometimes even that isn't all that important - like when I set about discovering whether it's possible to jump backwards out of the ring on your own in Soul Caliber II - and it is - and then the person I was fighting generously did the same to put us on equal standing. There's an equality through computers that can't be found anywhere else. The characters and the game overwhelms you, and all you have is fun.
Plus, it's excellent stress-relief.
Oooo, I ~love~ it here!