(January 21, 2019 at 11:30 pm)PRJA93 Wrote:(January 21, 2019 at 11:24 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: It isn't about being tough. I don't walk around picking fights with people and I don't look for trouble. I typically practice MYOB, and I don't have issues with people bothering me. If you do, and have been in shootouts, then great. Like I said, I'm not the one they're looking for.Talking about separating the boys from men... telling me I'm crying... Talking about how you stand up to bullies and don't give in to criminals. Jeez dude. The napoleon complex is strong with this one.
As soon as I got out of the Army and finished college, my first job was working with the severely mentally ill out in the community. It was to help them live stable lives despite their conditions. I went into the worst places, because that's where people making less than $700/mo had to live, and as such you seen some of the worst possible conditions. Did it for years. Nobody ever bothered me. Why? It's simple. I don't make myself a target. No reason to.
As I said, it's not about being tough. I would rather "not be tough" most of the time because it doesn't serve a purpose in a normal day. If someone shows up and tries to mug me, I'll flip the switch. If not, just more MYOB for me.
I guess you've never seen the current generation of high school kids. Many of them are the gangbangers, but not all. When I was in school, the bad kids were known as "hoods." They were your high school gang. Those were the kids I was referring to. They would pick fights with people, and the ones who made themselves a daily target became exactly that. The ones who had the sense to let them know that they could do it, but they would have to work for it, they generally left them alone.
Where do you come up with these scenarios? Television? The boogeyman isn't out there trying to get you. People aren't waiting around every corner wanting to beat you up. They look for the ones who makes themselves targets. You walk into a dark alley with a wallet bulging out of your back pocket and a shiny gold watch on your wrist, then you're probably making yourself a target. If you MYOB and don't wander into strange dark places or run your mouth at people you don't know, more times than not you'll be fine.
Do you always cry so much? Seriously, calm down.
Clearly you got it all figured out buddy. Sorry I wasted my breath.
Not it at all. You constantly act like a victim. From the beginning I said I understood your position, yet you kept insisting I should deviate from who I am and conclude I should do things your way. If I was able to respect your original statement and your reasoning for it, then what more do you want? I'm not going to lie and say I would do the same. Even though I see the merit in your idea, I couldn't even do it if I wanted to. I can guarantee you that switch would flip. Not because I necessarily want it to, but sometimes we just are who we are.
Oh, believe me. I don't have it "all figured out", which is why I practice MYOB. I can't control what everybody else is doing, so I do my best and don't worry about everybody else.
