I give up!

[ColKLink]

Aside from telling you to get off the pity pot, there squaddie. (i think your still in the gruppe".) I'm not a great pilot, as you know, but from other experience(motocross),....when you attain a certain level of "ability"....i.e. ya know you've done everything to prepare,you know you can run with em ,you know you are fast,.........Then comes the biggest hurdle, your own mind.......the mental aspect at a certain level is the thing that makes or breaks you, more than ANY OTHER thing you've done to prepare. YOU GOTTA BELIEVE YOU CAN DO IT. If you don't think that way, dont unload the bike. (dont bother flying). Heres, what I do, when im rolling down the runway, I repeat to myself over and over, "I will not fly like an anus this flight".......5 min's later, maybe less,.....I'm in the tower wondering wth happened.??  (dang) Believe you can do it,....and you will have greater sucess, i promise.<S>/ I used to get rotten starts.....then a well known racer, told me pretty much , what I just told you. And guess what? I holeshotted that day, and many  after that.  Ya gotta WANT to. No excuses. or put her away.

[Bruv119]

Aside from telling you to get off the pity pot, there squaddie. (i think your still in the gruppe".) I'm not a great pilot, as you know, but from other experience(motocross),....when you attain a certain level of "ability"....i.e. ya know you've done everything to prepare,you know you can run with em ,you know you are fast,.........Then comes the biggest hurdle, your own mind.......the mental aspect at a certain level is the thing that makes or breaks you, more than ANY OTHER thing you've done to prepare. YOU GOTTA BELIEVE YOU CAN DO IT. If you don't think that way, dont unload the bike. (dont bother flying). Heres, what I do, when im rolling down the runway, I repeat to myself over and over, "I will not fly like an anus this flight".......5 min's later, maybe less,.....I'm in the tower wondering wth happened.??  (dang) Believe you can do it,....and you will have greater sucess, i promise.<S>/ I used to get rotten starts.....then a well known racer, told me pretty much , what I just told you. And guess what? I holeshotted that day, and many  after that.  Ya gotta WANT to. No excuses. or put her away.

here here clink!   morale officer Rook division 

[Shuffler]

As for the Game..... start playing it for fun. Get in the middle of a furball on the deck. Yes you'll die a lot at first.... so what.. you get a new plane. Eventually you'll find yourself living longer and sometimes making it out in your beat up crate. Improving naturally is better than trying to force yourself to get better. Improving naturally also makes it more second nature. Afterward when your up and get into a 3 vs 1 you'll think that is gravy.


As for real life issues, never give up. The difference between a successful individual and a failure is that a successful person keeps pressing on even things get rough. DO NOT QUIT SCHOOL! Your issue in school can probably be traced to your earlier success. Because of your outstanding grades I would assume your in advanced classes designed to push the envelope. You may not score as high but your working beyond most others in your age group. Your education will serve you long after your out of school.


Good Luck !!!

[dentin]

Quote from: Simaril on Today at 07:53:35 AM
It's shocking --

but that seems to be his point.

Don't you think it's absurd that we in the developed world live in unbelievable comfort and abundance, but that we still get whiney about how miserable things are? Listen to the news in US and all you'll hear is "recession this, job loss that, shooting here, assault there...." -- If we open our eyes to what REAL suffering is, then smaller things like success in a video game get a lot less stressful. I  think (I hope..) that's what the guy's trying to point out.


I guarantee that even the proudest, loudest, most obnoxious member of the AH community would come back a totally different person if he spent a month working with the poor in a Brazilian ghetto, or trying to get food and medical care to people in a famine. Most of us could benefit from a serious dose of the reality that's outside our little bubble.


Is the pic too shocking for the boards? Not up to me to decide. But I gotta say this -- unlike most of the obnoxious drivel that gets people smacked with the Skuzzy stick, THIS picture shows something real, something that OUGHT to get us worked up. Even if you think the guy ought never to have posted a picture of a starving kid with vulture in the background, think about what it means that stuff like that really happens...and consider doing a little something about it.  Cause like it or not, it's real, and its happening right now.

  Great post Sim 

Pretty disturbing pic, really not sure it's appropriate, however, Simaril's analogy is spot on. 

Hey Latrobe..a few words of encouragement/advice:  Never start a task with the slightest doubt, if you do, you're already doomed to failure.

[The Fugitive]

You only fail IF you give up!. Don't stress about it, just do it. School work, drums, cartoon pilot game, it doesn't matter. Trust yourself and just "do it". Worrying about getting better just tightens you up, relax, have fun....yes even in school, and it will all work out.

[Shuffler]

It's shocking --

but that seems to be his point.

Don't you think it's absurd that we in the developed world live in unbelievable comfort and abundance, but that we still get whiney about how miserable things are? Listen to the news in US and all you'll hear is "recession this, job loss that, shooting here, assault there...." -- If we open our eyes to what REAL suffering is, then smaller things like success in a video game get a lot less stressful. I  think (I hope..) that's what the guy's trying to point out.


I guarantee that even the proudest, loudest, most obnoxious member of the AH community would come back a totally different person if he spent a month working with the poor in a Brazilian ghetto, or trying to get food and medical care to people in a famine. Most of us could benefit from a serious dose of the reality that's outside our little bubble.


Is the pic too shocking for the boards? Not up to me to decide. But I gotta say this -- unlike most of the obnoxious drivel that gets people smacked with the Skuzzy stick, THIS picture shows something real, something that OUGHT to get us worked up. Even if you think the guy ought never to have posted a picture of a starving kid with vulture in the background, think about what it means that stuff like that really happens...and consider doing a little something about it.  Cause like it or not, it's real, and its happening right now.

While it is terrible that so many live that way I think it is even more terrible that someone would bring a child into that livelyhood. I recently read a story where women over there pick which child will live and which will die by giving food to the one they want to live and hardly anything to the other. Anyone that can not afford to feed themselves should not be having kids at all. It's ludicrous. No one is held accountable... it's all feel sorry for me and support me. Dan (Corkyjr) recently adopted a baby boy from overseas. The childs parents left him at the hospitol because of some health issues. They did not care that he was going to die. Lucky for the young one that a friend of Dan's wife contacted her and wheels were set into motion. Dan and his Wife are now the parents of a fine young son that will survive because of their caring. Folks over there have little heart towards such things. They just feed on our generousity and have no real need to improve
as long as there are handouts.
I do not send any money to those groups. There is enough strife here in the US that needs to be addressed.

[Rebel]

<tough love>

Suck it up.  Life ain't fair, and frankly it sucks about 90% of the time.  The only thing that's making you fail is you.  Get your head on straight, stand up, put your shoulders back, and give it an honest shot.

Enough of this moping around bulltoejam. 

Remember, your psychological state has a HUGE impact on your performance.  You get frustrated, you'll lose focus and consequently your work (or game) will suffer BIG TIME. 

</tough love>

Take a deep breath. 

[Yenny]

  but we need bad pilot so we can shoot em down easier =/

[Yossarian]

Latrobe, sorry for being so blunt about this, but I really mean it:


DO NOT QUIT.  IT WILL GET YOU NOWHERE.  If you quit something, you automatically remove ANY chances of success.





(Smoking would be an exception to this rule)

[zuii]

never give up, damn the torpedo's, never give up the ship, that sort of thing.



 

zuii

[Rich46yo]

rich, I think he`s implying the human plight can sometimes be very severe....
more than just the average joes day to day problems.
Latrobe..take up the drums  you might be great at it...
if not try something else, maybe you aint found your niche yet.
have fun and relax (but stay off the puff!).
Get a girl get a life get a job...
its not giving up its extending away...
<S>Jimmy

Yeah sure. Well its a good thing he posted that pic so we'd all get his point. A dieing baby with a hungry vulcher looking on ? Even still people surprise me.

See below.

[Rebel]

Yeah sure. Well its a good thing he posted that pic so we'd all get his point. A dieing baby with a hungry vulcher looking on ? Even still people surprise me.

See below.

Do you know the story behind that famous photo?

[Yenny]

Yes, teh photographer that took it end up suicide because he didn't help that kid.

[Rebel]

Yes, teh photographer that took it end up suicide because he didn't help that kid.

He was forbidden from helping the kid-  for fear of any number of diseases that kid may have had. 

That kid died 200 yards from the rice truck.  Not even the locals helped him.   

Back to the point that the original poster- he was trying to make (in an over the top dramatic statement, by the way) a statement that helping people helps you, and it's easy to get lost in the "little things" when there are people with much bigger problems.

I myself don't subscribe to the whole social comparison (i.e. my mortgage is too high, to which a reply is shouted "well what about all those who don't have a house? Hmmmm??") idealogy.  Problems are just challenges.

Every problem is a problem.  What we choose to make of it and how we choose to handle and address it makes all the difference in the world.   Or not  

*my* point is  that picture tells a very important story, and I just hate to see such powerful photos with so much history get called "classless" because a point someone is trying to make is lost on it.



***Edit*** Back to LaTrobe- just reread your post.  You're scrambling.  You're probably getting anxiety attacks and what not.  It's no medical issue- it seriously is all in your head.  I've helped my sister through this kinda thing. 

Like I said earlier- take a deeeeep breath.  Focus on one thing at a time.  Accomplish that one thing, then move to the next.  Don't worry about the rest, and you'll be okay.  It's hard to start when you've loaded yourself down like that.

Regarding ACM- you took time off, you read, re-read, and practiced until you're blue in the face.  What you need to do now is forget about it, and let it come naturally.  It won't happen at first- you have to recognize the gut instincts and more importantly follow them.  Then you'll be just fine

 

[Yenny]

That photo show a lot of what the world around us is like. We just don't see stuff like that often to realized it.