[Rinzler89]

Easy mate, take a deep breath. No need to blow your top off over a trivial remark. My observation was not meant to be in bad faith. I'm sorry you took it that way.

[bravetraveler]

We could both learn to take a deep breath, from this. I was fine until you showed up in bad faith. Don't say I took it that way. It was.

[Rinzler89]

Sure, but don't blame your overreaction on others. If someone cuts in front of you in trafic and you get out of the car and beat them up with a a baseball bat in response, it's not an excuse that's gonna hold up in court. Someone's mistake is on them, but your reaction is always on you.

[bravetraveler]

Agreed. I know I'm overreacting. I'm on the internet too much and see this kind of lazy discourse everywhere I look.

It's exhausting and maddening. I literally should touch grass, but that doesn't absolve the world either.

Some of my other posts are even more unhinged. I know I'm slipping. I don't really care.

Still, sorry you had to see it.

[shrimp_emoji]

Your problem is you're using the Internet wrong. You shouldn't take anything on it seriously.

It's the fun Dionysian night to the boring Apollonian day of real life.

[bravetraveler]

I haven't really had the life to afford taking anything less than serious.

Wasting time like this is all rather new to me. I don't mean to turn this into therapy, but while we're being honest.

I'm like the homeless lottery winner doing themselves in with indulgences. Now that I don't have to fight to stay alive, I'm spinning.

[serf]

this entire sub-thread and dialogue is like an advertisement for finding a mentor as quick as possible.

on one hand you're talking about how you made it without one, then on the other hand you're also commiserating about being a (metaphorical) homeless lottery winner.

if I was a young'n in the industry i'd read this entire dialogue as a cautionary tale in the same kind of vein as a Zen koan or Aesop fable.