So, this morning, when my wife went to take a shower, my weekend got kinda tossed into the trash. Apparently our water heater has given up the ghost. It isn't spilling water all over or anything, but I cannot get the pilot and/or burner to light. So, I'm expecting to need to replace it, and I'm spending my day hunting down recommendations for plumbing/heating people to do the job. So much for my day.
I was all set to gripe about it. But then, someone took a 2"x4" of perspective, and whacked me solidly in the head with it.
One of the guys in my Deadlands group spent the night in the hospital - headache, aphasia, and some other symptoms. He and his wife feared a possible stroke (he's not ancient, but he's old enough for that to be a real possibility). Thankfully, he didn't have a stroke. Instead, he appears to have a brain tumor.
Needless to say, my desire to gripe about a busted water heater have evaporated.
Some of you may have seen me occasionally chide people in Mod Voice, about how they're silly to treat people badly about peculiarities about how we pretend to be elves. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. There are people out there with real problems. There are things that can take your livelihood, or your home. There are things that make it so a surgeon has to open up your skull and cut bits off your brain. Compared to these things, whether or not there are healing surges in a hobby game are piddly, whiny little concerns. Nothing to get mad about, though. Nothing to treat people badly about - there's more than enough real bad stuff in the world, we shouldn't add to it.
So, with some of your leisure time, it is fine to discuss games. But keep that discussion in perspective. Treat people with respect, because the Universe doesn't. Don't be part of the crappy things about the Universe.
I was all set to gripe about it. But then, someone took a 2"x4" of perspective, and whacked me solidly in the head with it.
One of the guys in my Deadlands group spent the night in the hospital - headache, aphasia, and some other symptoms. He and his wife feared a possible stroke (he's not ancient, but he's old enough for that to be a real possibility). Thankfully, he didn't have a stroke. Instead, he appears to have a brain tumor.
Needless to say, my desire to gripe about a busted water heater have evaporated.
Some of you may have seen me occasionally chide people in Mod Voice, about how they're silly to treat people badly about peculiarities about how we pretend to be elves. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. There are people out there with real problems. There are things that can take your livelihood, or your home. There are things that make it so a surgeon has to open up your skull and cut bits off your brain. Compared to these things, whether or not there are healing surges in a hobby game are piddly, whiny little concerns. Nothing to get mad about, though. Nothing to treat people badly about - there's more than enough real bad stuff in the world, we shouldn't add to it.
So, with some of your leisure time, it is fine to discuss games. But keep that discussion in perspective. Treat people with respect, because the Universe doesn't. Don't be part of the crappy things about the Universe.