I'm living a ok life. 9-5 job. So just a regular guy I guess. I'm playing games since my older brother gave me controller to play spyro on psx around 6-7 yo. I don't know why i am that way but I remember I always wanted to be better at things than others. That always felt great but afterwards felt like people were just annoyed with me.
For example: We played "squares" around a block - just a game focused around keeping a ball from the ground and your square really fun and competitive - I was playing with older brother and his friends at first so I was shit. Felt awesome to improve and I still had fun losing. Eventually I was able to get my friends to play with me and I didn't want to be harsh so I played fair and easy balls. Once anyone got cocky I was doing everything to show them "you're not that guy" and people just stopped wanting to play "squares" with me.
Second example: My friend showed me tekken on PSP and 3 of my friends were so stoked. My brother downloaded me a copy and we sucked. Just button mashing. I started blocking way more and winning fights more often. Guys did get a hang of blocking too so I started learning some combos. That was the moment where people didn't want to fight against me and just moved to other games.
Third example: I got 15yo and my friend from school shows up on a funny looking skateboard and tells me all about it. Longboard instantly hooked me. I was trying to skate few years back but cheap skateboards were not even rolling properly and I didn't even know what "bearing" is anyways... He shows me how to ride it and I just love it. Few days later I meet with my longboard guru and he sells me his hand made longboard for dirt cheap. I learned so many things on it was amazing how big jump it is compared to my current longboard. 3 years goes by and people that were riding just went away to other cities. Riding everyday I meet few new faces in my 50k people town. Was so happy there were people riding longboards I thought I can make Facebook group to get more people hooked. In 2 years I had 6 people riding with me and I always wanted to show them new shit but they didn't want to learn or that's what I thought. Days go by and I start to lose the spark. No one not even my girlfriend gets why it crushed me that everyone was just coming and straight up sitting for an hour to ride for 5 min. I lost interest in riding with them but we all stayed good friends and still to this day I ride when I can.
There are other examples for sure but I guess I just want an opinion if I'm overreacting or maybe someone had similar experiences and wants to share? Anyways thanks for reading and sorry for a lot of bad grammar.
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