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In Reply to: EVERYONE Should Read This & Unsoundminds Previous Posts. posted by thetubeguy1954 on October 24, 2006 at 13:53:39:
"besides your warped views on audio, you are NOT interested in anyone else problems"You're right, I'm not. Everyone in the world has problems, some a lot worse than yours. 16 years ago, I was in a near fatal car crash. I was driving to work in an interstate in the rain and a guy fell asleep at the wheel of his car. He swerved hitting me in a way that sent my car hyroplaning in a slow spin and compltely out of control. The antilock brakes didn't help and I wound up hitting the concrete center divider head on at about 50 mph. I saw it coming but there was nothing I could do about it, I expected to die. The shoulder harness and seat belt saved my life as did the engineered energy absorbing crumple zones in the car. The car was totaled but I was alive although dazed. Four doctors told me it was a miracle I had survived it. It wasn't until the next day that I was in serious pain. I went to see the company nurse and on her instructions a chiropractor and orthopedist. An X-ray showed my spine was twisted like a pretzel. When the intense headaches started about two weeks later, I went for an EEG and they decided I had a concussion too. I couldn't think straight. There were days I could barely stand up or walk. I went to physical therapy three times a week for four months and chiropractic therapy three times a week for a year and a half. At about the same time my father had his leg amputated from diabetes and I had to drive 50 miles each way every weekend to see him taking turns with my sister who went weekdays. Even with my bad back, I had to load his heavy wheelchair in the trunk of his Chevy and take him to restaurants, haircuts, and whatever else he wanted. Because of my concussion, I was fighting with everyone at work including my boss and was put on probation. I nearly lost my job. But I decided the first day that the worst thing I could do for my mental health was to feel sorry for myself and stay home. If I could walk, I got up and went to work even if it just meant sitting at my desk talking to people. There is no worse self abasement a human being can suffer than self pity. I don't know how much your complaints are real and how much are made up. I don't care. There are millions of people in this world far worse off than you are.
It's clear from the fact that you keep posting here that what you really want is attention and pity. Well as long as the others keep giving it to you, you will keep coming back for it. If you trade insults with people face to face as readily as you do here, it is small wonder you spend so much time alone. People quickly discover they don't want to be around you.
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"It took something from you, it must have given something back." Did someone ever try to tell you that. I hope not. If some therapist threw that little non-sequitur at me, I'd get someone else.Although I personally find it callous, I must say the professionals in those kinds of fields often seem to say the kinds of things you have said.
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"Nature loves to hide."
---Heraclitus of Ephesus (trans. Wheelwright)
"It took something from you, it must have given something back."I don't know what that means. I was badly injured even though I didn't know it at first. There were no visible scars or bruises. They were all what are called soft tissue injuries, very hard to prove and therefore requiring additional automobile insurance premiums to be covered for in the State of New Jersey (fortunately I was.) It took a year and a half to substantially recover. People who are sick whether mentally or physically do not have a right to inflict their illness on other people nor to use it as a justification or excuse to be abusive. It is remarkable to me that so many people here would surrender to the rantings of a sniveling, whining, spoiled self centered brat merely because he may be in physical pain much of the time but I guess that is how he got to be a brat in the fist place and maybe that explains why so many children grow up that way.
If you want to know what changes the accident made in me, I'd say overcoming any real adversity in life makes you tougher. All of this happened at a very bad time in my life when both of my parents were terminally ill. It also makes you aware of your own mortality. One thing that surprised me was what went through my head between the time of the collision by the other car and the time of the impact with the concrete wall which I was certain would be fatal. Time slowed down. Those few seconds seemed like minutes. My brain was racing very quickly. Most surprising of all was that I wasn't frightned, I just had a very sad and lonely feeling as though I had been cheated out of half my life. Afterwards, far from acting like tube boob, I was just thrilled to be alive and still in one piece. Complaining about it to anyone was the last thought on my mind but I do admit I did a lot of fighting with a lot of people. Maybe that's how I got to be this way. The only other change I can think of is that I lost my eye for and love of photography. For some reason, in that area, the accident took the wind out of my sails. Too bad, I have so much wonderful camera equipment to play with. Where I was once burning roll after roll of film through it, now it mostly sits idle. BTW, I'm wasn't much better as a photographer than I am as a musician. Realistically, my abilities in both areas are still "beginner."
Seems like you're still there with the anger.Perhaps it is time for you to drop this vendetta. Is it so hard to just walk away from the ugliness? It seems just about everyone else has.
Intolerance for crap is not a function of having been in a car accident or suffered a concussion. It's the result of growing older and realizing there is only so much time in life and it's too precious to be wasted on humoring insufferable fools.
But I'm fairly certain you weren't "humoring" those you think are "fools," you were attacking them. "There is only so much time in life," so perhaps you should curtail your need to attack those you consider "insufferable fools," even if you think they started it, as apparently unbeknownst to you, you have yourself become one.
Well then I've created my own purgatory because you can't escape from yourself. Fortuantely, I can escape from anyone on the internet if they are too bothersome. Which is why I no longer respond to certain people who post here or usually even read their postings. Neither they nor their views interest me.I don't normally go out picking fights and I usually have a fairly high boiling point, but if someone starts with me first and gets to the point of being annoying, heaven help them. Tube boob has a long history of it.
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