Originally Posted by
Napolean
Hi thread,
A pet peeve people have always had with me is that when SHTF they don't think I'm making a big enough deal about it, it doesn't look like I care because I'm not freaking out like them. They want to discuss whats going on with me, vent their frustration at how messed up a situation is. I offer little more consolation than "I'm working on it". Since they've heard this a million times from their affiliate reps, tech support, whatever, they don't hear "shut up and let the cavalry do it's thing", they hear all those other guys giving lip service.
Complaining about a situation and venting your frustrations is a waste of time and energy. Anxiety is a inner force that calls you to action if you know how to utilize it in the correct way. Anxiety is like the temperature of water as it heats on the stove. If you are sitting in it, you don't react until it gets too hot. Sometimes you wait too long, and by the time you start reacting in a productive way, it's too late.
Moral of the story is. You can take all the time you want getting back at each other. You can post all the threads and replies. You can argue your case and you may even win some pity and sympathy from this community. How does it help in the long run though?
Posting personal information doesn't impress anybody. It's the equivalent of asking someone else to do your dirty work for you. Here's his address, can you go mess him up for me? I'd do it myself but I like, live too far away. Anyone? Plzzzzzzzzz!!
Even if you did your own dirty work, all you've accomplished is proving to the rest of us what an irrational person you are. While it's true someone will think twice before trying to scam you again, you've shown the rest of us that 1.) You were dumb enough to get scammed in the first place. and 2.) You're not going to handle yourself professionally if things don't work out perfectly. Nice job.
Back to the moral though, because I kind of got side tracked. The time you spent posting back and forth about the same mistake, was time you could have spent *solving* the problem or working on something new. All you accomplish by talking about a problem in non-productive ways (venting, whining, complaining, looking for sympathy, arguing, fighting), is making that problem just a wee bit bigger than it needs to be. You could be squashing the problem, but you would rather look at and obsess over it, instead of stomping it under your boots, putting it out of sight and existence for good.
greetings, fellow internet!
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