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Patlal
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This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone
#22139658 - 08/25/15 08:05 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Seriously, it's easy to think that most people probably have it the same way as I do when it comes to life. That thought alone can make a difference on how you see thee world entirely. It's simple to say that everybody has an equal chance to become great if sufficient effort are made. It's not true. Some people will work their asses of for decade and still be at the bottom of the food chain. So will make it without over the top effort.
It's all environment. Like this dude in the pub who has like 10 friends who dead of OD... I can't even imagine what its like to lose people like that. Hell, I can't imagine what it's like to have 10 friends... I was born in a small village and both my parents were in business. My reality is that parents are often at work and when they come home they teach me quickly what I have to learn and I have to get it on the first go. That's essentially what my world was. Short intense bursts of parenting followed by long periods of hanging out with a baby sitter. It worked I guess.
People like the guy I mentioned. He obviously was born somewhere extremely prone to drug use. Which he might have considered normal (cause that was his only vision of reality as a kid or something)... To me, it's completely abnormal, but hey, my environment was totally different therefore, my perception of reality is completely different than his. Not only that, but I have been taught that people like him are problems of society... He just got up one day and suddenly people looked at him as if he was a problem and he had to live with it wondering what he might have done... How fucked up is that really? Some kid grows up to learn that he's part of the so called problem? How the hell can that help the guy?
Of course I'm just guessing here, but isn't it fucked up how insanely important your childhood environment is to someone? Then you have people claiming that they can relate to anybody and that anybody can become anyone they want and whatever.... It's so false. Some are set up to fail from day one. Some simply miss out on crucial information... How do you know what to look for if you're now even aware that what you should be looking for exists?
Anyway.
Hopefully someone almost understands what point I'm trying to make here.
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: Patlal]
#22139700 - 08/25/15 08:15 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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It is good of you to see this, a lot of people just never get it.
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: Patlal]
#22139867 - 08/25/15 09:14 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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where's tl;dr
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Turtletotem
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: zZZz]
#22140440 - 08/25/15 11:27 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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tl;dr: Patlal considders how a person's environment might have a huge impact on that person's life.
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: Turtletotem] 1
#22140455 - 08/25/15 11:31 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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ah, i see.
well, it;s true i guess
it's like they say, we're simply a product of our environments
it's not rocket surgery
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: zZZz] 1
#22140495 - 08/25/15 11:39 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Believe it or not, this site has helped me grow as a person quite a bit. Especially, funny enough, as it pertains to homosexuality.
I just really never had much exposure to it and then I was able to talk about it here and gain new perspectives on it. I was never homophobic by any means, but a lot of things I read here really opened my eyes and taught me shit.
and then, I learned of Burning Man on here and that changed my life. I learned of PoF here, and that changed my life with a wonderful woman and now child...
I learned much more than mushroom cultivation tips here
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: shLong]
#22140506 - 08/25/15 11:41 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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and I've personally met like 10 shroomerites in real life (became good friends with 4 of them) and talk to a bunch more via Facebook, etc.. I think I have over 30-35 friends on Facebook thru this site
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Turtletotem
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: shLong]
#22140515 - 08/25/15 11:43 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
shLong said: and I've personally met like 10 shroomerites in real life (became good friends with 4 of them) and talk to a bunch more via Facebook, etc.. I think I have over 30-35 friends on Facebook thru this site 
That's pretty cool, I wish there where more Dutchies on this site so I could meet up with them sometime
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: Patlal]
#22140633 - 08/25/15 12:13 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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If we don't choose our environment, what or who does?
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Patlal
You ask too many questions



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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: HalluciNate]
#22140777 - 08/25/15 12:58 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Personally, this site made me realize how much more conservative I was as a person and lucky I am not to have been born in a shithole. It has also taught me countless things about America that you can't read in books. Attitude towards certain subject I could never understand before (guns)
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: Patlal]
#22140822 - 08/25/15 01:10 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well I think that was me you were referring to with all the OD deaths I've seen with my friends, and believe it or not I live in a higher end middle class suburban area, but it's like a 15-20 minute drive to one of the highest drug trafficking crime ridden cities in the country, so the influx of drugs from that almost can't be stopped.
You do have a point and I realized at a young age that what people are subjected to.throughout their life influences their perspective on what's normal or acceptable, you never get used to it, but as you said more times than not it was out of people's control when it comes to what influenced the type of person and perspective they developed
And in the end it just comes down that people are always going to choose to do whatever they want to do, even if they're around a new death a week do to the same shit
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Re: This website has shown me the real impact of what environment can do to someone [Re: Patlal]
#22140850 - 08/25/15 01:20 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Environment/location is a huge part of it. Also working hard vs. working smart.
I started life in the middle of bumfuck nowhere country-side and thought my life was gonna be me smoking weed and becoming a tattoo artist or a blacksmith. A lot of my old friends from back there are either struggling auto mechanics, tattoo artists, devout (govt. sustained)baptists, heroin addicts, speed-freaks, or beauty school technicians.
Then my life got flipped, turned upside down (dohoho) and I wound up moving to a big city, improved education and perspective. I got to travel the world and see countries achieving beyond the US, and also 3rd world countries... aaand I still wound up on the brink of homelessness as of now; but with a way out coming soon. Patience is another key to getting yourself where you want to be.
I'm much better off for ending up in more global parts of the world than isolated ones but now that I've gained what I need from the worldly world, I miss my old isolated forests and mountains. I'll get there again once I've got it figured out
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