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[MangaReader]

Meh, fighting the norm isn't easy, but well, we can do it

[Nate River]

Since PMs of this forum are also under the penalty of rules...then I guess we should just get rid of them.

There is nothing "Private" or "Personal" about PMs at all. So I guess this is a misnomer.

Also, I suggest the mods and admins stop saying "Take this to the PMs" since well, you can't have argument there either.

You may not be aware of this since the incident predates you. But we once had an older member using the PM system to make a number of unwanted sexual comments to a minor. We also had another incident were a member was using the system to relentlessly harass another user and it was unwanted.

Should we just let that go?

[James S Cassidy]

What happens when you hide behind conformity? Falling back into the comfort and never leaving the so called \\\"circle of identity.\\\" I used to get told that \\\"nothing ventured, nothing gained,\\\" but what happens if people are unwilling to take risks? Change gets stagnant. No more pushing forward and eventually time leaves you behind. You either change with it or it leaves you back. It will not wait for you. Sometimes it forces you to move and in ways you don\\\'t wish to proceed.

The way people view you. The way the world views you. Does this matter? People say it isn\\\'t and yet people take it so seriously to the point of being overly protective of it like a mother watching over her cub. Adapt. There is a word. Adapt to your surroundings. Adapt to the ways. Adapt or die, but what happens if you refuse to adapt? Little do people see a truth. A truth that what you want to perceive is not what actually is and people will only see what they want to believe. You change everyday and yet, you don\\\'t change at all. One day your on top of the world and the next you\\\'re in the gutter, but moments we have are the moments worth to cherish. Every failure is a chance to change. To adapt.

Just wonder if others know what you feel. Wondering if they understand what you feel or they just listen to the words they want to perceive. Once again, unknowing what you are and have is not what they think. Some see a name, others see a person. One may see a lover, another a friend. That guy might see his next rival. That girl might see her new fling. A con man see his new scam. A murderer sees his new victim. Who are you really?

Some avatar on the screen or a person who has a voice? A jumble of words on a white canvas or a person with a keyboard trying to find others who can understand. Even now as you read you perceive to judge based on words alone, not knowing the person behind them.

I am not what everyone thinks I am, but I am everything someone wants me to be.

Edited by James S Cassidy, 01 May 2013 - 12:12 AM.

[T XD]

Well said James. Be who you want to be, and don't let others opinions affect you.

[James S Cassidy]

Well said James. Be who you want to be, and don't let others opinions affect you.

Indeed.

[James S Cassidy]

[James S Cassidy]

Edited by James S Cassidy, 02 May 2013 - 02:12 AM.

[James S Cassidy]

I just got an idea for a new book.

[James S Cassidy]

[MangaReader]

You know...I was trying to remember that Evanescence song XD

Also cool that you posted the one I sent you

[Toasty Warrior]

I'm glad to hear things are somewhat better for you James, let's hope it keeps that way.

[Shadow Wolf]

I just got an idea for a new book.

Let's hear it!

[James S Cassidy]

There is a girl I am in love with, but she doesn't know it.
There is a girl I am in love with, but I will never show it.

I see her everyday. Although it sometimes hurts to not be next to her, I am glad that even exist in her world at all. Seeing her smile when she interacts with friends makes me happy. It means, if even for the moment, she doesn't have any worries or problems. I do help her from time to time, but she never sees how I feel. Not because she is blind to it, but because I don't want her to. She is better off this way. Why am I content this way? Maybe that's how you know it is true love. You rather see them happy than you. There are days in which I imagine it different, but they are just dreams.

I am not some stalker or some sick person in the head. They do things for self-satisfaction. While I do watch her at times, I don't do it that way. I watch her to see if she is happy. If she is in trouble, I will be there to help though never overstep the situation. It may seem like nothing, but in this world it could mean everything. She may not always be with me, but she will always be in my heart. She makes me smile just existing and it makes me happy to do such.

Will she ever know the truth? Maybe, but it won't change anything and it shouldn't. Love is not an obligation. She will always be in my dreams.

There is a girl I am in love with...and she will always be in my heart.

Let's hear it!

A man who is a hero the world needs, but does not want.

Edited by James S Cassidy, 04 May 2013 - 03:07 AM.

[T XD]

A man who is a hero the world needs, but does not want.

It's reality. Changing the world, which it's something that it's in need to, won't be accepted easily for it has habituated in the ways it has always been. Something that I always want to make, at least, a bit of change.

[James S Cassidy]

It's reality. Changing the world, which it's something that it's in need to, won't be accepted easily for it has habituated in the ways it has always been. Something that I always want to make, at least, a bit of change.

Real world problems solved by Superhero people.

He ain't gonna be catching planes.

[James S Cassidy]

[James S Cassidy]

You make memories every single day. You meet new people and make new friends. It is all apart of life. Although, one thing I am getting a little tired of is my friends both abandoning and ignoring me because to them "life gets too hard." I have my problems too, but I still have time for my friends. I still send them messages of praise and love from time to time.

I hate when the people I love just forget about me and leave because they think it is "better off that way" only to find everything is either worse or doesn't change at all. You are never better off when you lose someone you care about.

That is something some of my friends never got. They never realize that they had the perfect people beside them the whole time.

Sometimes the only reason why you are alone is because you push everyone away from you.

Edited by James S Cassidy, 06 May 2013 - 01:17 PM.

[James S Cassidy]

[Shadow Wolf]

You make memories every single day. You meet new people and make new friends. It is all apart of life. Although, one thing I am getting a little tired of is my friends both abandoning and ignoring me because to them "life gets too hard." I have my problems too, but I still have time for my friends. I still send them messages of praise and love from time to time.

This...

Sometimes the only reason why you are alone is because you push everyone away from you.

...and this.

Life isn't too hard for me at the moment, though. Sometimes, I just lose motivation to do stuff and find myself watching anime or playing games to blow some steam off and to makes those excuses disappear (they don't, though, so I will not advise people to do the same as me). Cool thing about anime, though, is that usually, I find the answer to some of the stuff I find myself thinking about during the days. Still, its understandable that people frown at me for suddenly dropping communication. Is a bad habit of mine, I admit.

Anyway, I don't know exactly what kind of advice to give, but at least in my case, don't mind me whenever I disappear. Many times is because of silly reasons, hehehehe.

The second quote is something I do often. I don't think I need to explain why, since you know me well, and I'm pretty sure that you'll probably beat me up for that but... that's how I've been over the past few years. Stupid? Yeah... Illogical? Definitely... but I have my reasons.

So in the end, keep up the communication and don't worry about me. You haven't done anything wrong and you're a great friend, no matter what people say.

[James S Cassidy]

This...



...and this.

Life isn't too hard for me at the moment, though. Sometimes, I just lose motivation to do stuff and find myself watching anime or playing games to blow some steam off and to makes those excuses disappear (they don't, though, so I will not advise people to do the same as me). Cool thing about anime, though, is that usually, I find the answer to some of the stuff I find myself thinking about during the days. Still, its understandable that people frown at me for suddenly dropping communication. Is a bad habit of mine, I admit.

Anyway, I don't know exactly what kind of advice to give, but at least in my case, don't mind me whenever I disappear. Many times is because of silly reasons, hehehehe.

The second quote is something I do often. I don't think I need to explain why, since you know me well, and I'm pretty sure that you'll probably beat me up for that but... that's how I've been over the past few years. Stupid? Yeah... Illogical? Definitely... but I have my reasons.

So in the end, keep up the communication and don't worry about me. You haven't done anything wrong and you're a great friend, no matter what people say.

Thanks, but this more advice for people rather than me.

Sometimes you are alone not because people don't want to be with you, but because you push everyone away to the point that you won't let them be close. So you have to open up to them. You have to confide in them. I know some friends will betray you, not all of them.

I also find myself in a position where my friends leave me, I don't leave them. I tell them all the time: "I am always going to be where you can find me." And I am. I am always in places where they can contact me. If they choose to lock themselves away, that's not my fault.

I can understand people being upset to be alone when they have people who leave them, but not when they were the cause of their leaving. When they pushed them away too many times.

There is something I used to say: "How can you ever have time when you never make time?"

Edited by James S Cassidy, 06 May 2013 - 04:58 PM.