rediculous thread on CAF

[bigsexxxy69]

i cant belive they are talkin about this on the forum
http://www.caraudioforum.com/vbb2/sh...threadid=82561

[geolemon]

Better to talk about it where someone might enlighten you to the err of your ways...
Or on the flip side, validate and confirm your thoughts...

Rather than simply jumping into something blindly without enough knowledge to know what is going to happen when you make the leap!

Right?

[sandt38]

I wished I had asked someone who I trusted before I did it the first time. It would have saved me tens of thousands of dollars, many friends, family, a liver (I was diagnosed with cihrrosis at 23), legal troubles, and some time in prison. Not to mention legal fees, meth clinic trips, fines, cars, etc. etc. etc. Get the point?

[bigsexxxy69]

Originally posted by sandt38
I wished I had asked someone who I trusted before I did it the first time. It would have saved me tens of thousands of dollars, many friends, family, a liver (I was diagnosed with cihrrosis at 23), legal troubles, and some time in prison. Not to mention legal fees, meth clinic trips, fines, cars, etc. etc. etc. Get the point?

yeah the **** aint worth it :nono:

[geolemon]

Originally posted by sandt38
I wished I had asked someone who I trusted before I did it the first time. It would have saved me tens of thousands of dollars, many friends, family, a liver (I was diagnosed with cihrrosis at 23), legal troubles, and some time in prison. Not to mention legal fees, meth clinic trips, fines, cars, etc. etc. etc. Get the point?

Sandt..
Don't think of it as a mistake sandt..
Think of it as an experience, a learning experience!

YOU know what that is like, I won't... so you have that advantage...
And you also have very very good reason to never do it again, so it's a valuable lesson learned that many of us won't ever have rooted into us as well as you for sure..
And you have an excuse why you stopped, rather than just "maybe if I don't stop ____ will happen"

So, think of it as a very painful, very expensive, very unfortunate learning experience that has some valuable stuff you came out of it with!

Sorry to hear of your trouble though

[sandt38]

Actually, it was a learning experiance. I went through 5 rehabs (broke out of 2) yet I quit on my own. It taught me that I am a strong person, who can do anything I put my mind to.

[streetrace_r]

Originally posted by sandt38
Actually, it was a learning experiance. I went through 5 rehabs (broke out of 2) yet I quit on my own. It taught me that I am a strong person, who can do anything I put my mind to.

Thats awesome!
i only wish that some other people could be that strong, but unfortunately they aren;t...

[geolemon]

Don't fret-
There are positive ways of learning the same things...

For me, it was skateboarding..

Taught me to set small goals (such as learning a particular trick), and to focus on that particular goal, learning how to find different things to try when one approach appears not to be working, and to roll with the punches when things go wrong (every so often I would tweak an ankle, bash a shin, even broken fingers)..
And learned that the downsides help make the successes even sweeter (everything is relative, and success is much much better than injury, obviously)...
AND you learn to MITIGATE those risks... you learn to imagine what MIGHT go wrong ahead of time, and plan a contingency to allow you to realize that the trick isn't going to work, but have a stuntman-style injury-free bailout plan..

Also taught me you can build on your successes.. combine them for a greater end product... I learned how to do "bigspins" and "late kickflips".. OK tricks on their own, but after wiring them, it's way more impressive to do a "bigspin late kickflip", just by combining two things you already know.

Applicable anywhere..
You are a box-building technical genius?
Might sound impressive, but not look impressive..
Maybe you learn autobody work..
Maybe you learn carpeting..
Maybe you learn Formica laminating...
Maybe you learn upholstery...
NOW you can build your box, AND carpet/upholster/laminate or smooth and paint it, and end up with a box that not only SOUNDS killer, but also looks like a showpiece... a much more impressive end product, just by combining 2 things that you already know..

So what the hell is my point anyways?
Um, get out there and skateboard, I guess..

AnI guess try to learn your lessons in positive ways.. less painful.. although like I said, those small painful moments are always part of LEARNING!

[piperazine]

Originally posted by sandt38
I wished I had asked someone who I trusted before I did it the first time. It would have saved me tens of thousands of dollars, many friends, family, a liver (I was diagnosed with cihrrosis at 23), legal troubles, and some time in prison. Not to mention legal fees, meth clinic trips, fines, cars, etc. etc. etc. Get the point?

We have alot in common. Things that I, and you, I'm sure, would rather not have in common w/ anybody... in hindsight.

And Geo: Be very happy you have never had such a learning experience. I see wha t you are saying, tho-.

[geolemon]

Originally posted by piperazine
And Geo: Be very happy you have never had such a learning experience. I see wha t you are saying, tho-.

I learned all my lessons vicariously..

Through a tattoo'ed "wild child" slightly younger sister who was in schools for troubled substance abusing teens, who got pregnant young, etc...

Through an alcoholic father who was addicted (as in 3 packs a day) to smoking to the point the doctors told him he ran a great risk of his dying if he didn't quit...

Through my friends, typically the punk/alternative (when "alternative" meant something) skateboarder alternative sport crowd... of which many many were abusers of something... to various levels...
And of which many were also the more militant "straightedge" crew on the other side of the fence...

I am grateful to have had so many various vicarious influences...
I am grateful to have had the opportunities to let others fall into the pit before I otherwise might have found the pit myself..

I would in the same way, probably cautiously (with some discussion) allow my own children someday to hang out with some of the more "troubled" kids.. no problem... either learn from their mistakes or learn by making your own, right?