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Was looking through old stuff...
9 years ago
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"It's a journal from Summercat! And he writes:"
Was the Furocity merger REALLY 5 years ago? Man, what a disaster that was.
But that's the timestamps, 2011. It doesn't really feel like it's been that long! What a rush that was. If I was the person then I am now, maybe I could have made some different decisions, approached things differently. Certainly, having been placed in similar situations recently (albeit with gaming stuff), I've been far more diplomatic than I was back then.
But don't know if that'd change anything really. Most of the stuff that went down was out of my control and influence. So ultimately, probably not. Same thing for all the stuff that happened after. Much and many of the decisions were made by other people, and I don't think anything I could have done would have changed how things ended up. Just would have gotten here by another path.
Sounds simple, right? This'll be the first time I say that in public. The closest I've gotten is telling two of the people who were there at the time that one day I might come to their point of view that there was no action I could have taken to 'fix' things. So it doesn't matter of I made a realization in 2010, 2011, or 2012, or after - There was no real way to get the results I desired. And ooh boy, did I desire them. Still do, to be honest - just not in any position to make it happen.
This isn't a sad thought - well, a bit tinted with sadness. It is a healthy thought. It's letting go. It's admitting things aren't my fault because I failed to act - or acted ineffectively. Mistakes were made, but even if I worked 100% right and correct, wouldn't have done much. The mistakes just made it a bit... more emotional and personal. But the course of events was set by all the people involved, and in all honesty, I can more readily change the course of a river than I can change someone's nature.
Just the thoughts of a tired and sober otter.
/No current events prompted this
//Revisited the Furocity thing via Wikifur, got there because I was googling myself
///In Liz Lemon's office using her computer.
But that's the timestamps, 2011. It doesn't really feel like it's been that long! What a rush that was. If I was the person then I am now, maybe I could have made some different decisions, approached things differently. Certainly, having been placed in similar situations recently (albeit with gaming stuff), I've been far more diplomatic than I was back then.
But don't know if that'd change anything really. Most of the stuff that went down was out of my control and influence. So ultimately, probably not. Same thing for all the stuff that happened after. Much and many of the decisions were made by other people, and I don't think anything I could have done would have changed how things ended up. Just would have gotten here by another path.
Sounds simple, right? This'll be the first time I say that in public. The closest I've gotten is telling two of the people who were there at the time that one day I might come to their point of view that there was no action I could have taken to 'fix' things. So it doesn't matter of I made a realization in 2010, 2011, or 2012, or after - There was no real way to get the results I desired. And ooh boy, did I desire them. Still do, to be honest - just not in any position to make it happen.
This isn't a sad thought - well, a bit tinted with sadness. It is a healthy thought. It's letting go. It's admitting things aren't my fault because I failed to act - or acted ineffectively. Mistakes were made, but even if I worked 100% right and correct, wouldn't have done much. The mistakes just made it a bit... more emotional and personal. But the course of events was set by all the people involved, and in all honesty, I can more readily change the course of a river than I can change someone's nature.
Just the thoughts of a tired and sober otter.
/No current events prompted this
//Revisited the Furocity thing via Wikifur, got there because I was googling myself
///In Liz Lemon's office using her computer.
Just the thoughts of a tired and sober otter.
What madness is this? Gonna miss you and your 'Yote at Furnal Equinox this weekend. I shall have to punish my liver alone.
Feel like responding to this now that I'm on my desktop and not still asleep on my phone xD
The past isn't a different country; it's the past. It's how we ended up here. While I understand your intent, I feel that some might take that sentiment as a dismissal of the past and looking at previous examples in history. Hellfire, I got someone who was adamant about how testing people for civics knowledge before they can vote or work as a public servant was a good thing, to admit that in every example in a previous time that it had been attempted, only *one* did it 'right', and that was for a short time before it too went bad.
We can't let the past *rule* us. It's gone. But we can look to see how the past handled situations similar to the ones we find ourselves in, and see if we cannot do it better. That's the true power of civilization; continuity of ideas.