I appreciate your insights and I agree with everything you said. I like the words of your father, they are the simplest yet most important words I think someone could say to anyone. As for the group builds, it wouldn't be very polite of me to just drop them after signing up. I encourage you to do group builds, they are oddly fun. Thanks for your comments. But I am not going anywhere. I will still be commenting and chatting, I just don't feel like building right now.
jeaton:
You are totally right about the results of sharing work. Small victories are the important ones. If not the most important are the little things in life which I in my short time on this earth have already found out by experience. Small victories are what make the big victories so much more fun! Thanks for commenting! I appreciate it.
Blacksheep:
(You are a master... as is everyone in my eyes). I do want to build for my own interest/satisfaction. I never intend on building for other people. I don't know how it ends up like it does, but somewhere along the route of my most recent builds, I just forget who the model is for. Perhaps my problem is that the people here are the only people who actually see my work. I don't have people in real life that come and see my stuff, minus my family of which only my mother is interested and that is brief at best. It sometimes doesn't matter whether I am happy with the build because I put it on my shelf and then.... nothing. I used to have friends who would come and admire my stuff and that used to be fun and I could put whatever the heck I wanted onto those shelves because they would admire just the same. They had no idea what half of it was, but it was cool. I digress; stressing over this is stupid, I know. At work we have these little rulers called stress rulers. They have an indicator on them that shows what level of stressed you are. The joke is, they are made with only one colour showing, and that is the highest level of stressed on the meter
Sometimes I feel like it isn't all incorrect... This stupid generation that I got stuck with is only taught what NOT to do with our feelings which usually means kids my age just flounder in them until they get overly stressed. People think our generation is so strong for standing up for what we believe in, but really we have no clue what we are doing. People are told to be what they are and that just makes a mess. When you are told you can be anything, THAT is when you question what you are and get lost. Anyway... This is the best forum I have ever been on. I have left 2 forums *unofficially* already, but never have I announced how I feel about the hobby. I don't plan on leaving this forum, the people here are too good for that.
Duke:
There is nothing meager about your work! You (along with basically everyone here) are one of the people I look up to because of your skills! Not to mention how ridiculously humble you are...
As I have said above, I really don't intend on building for other people. But I do like to hear that you simply just enjoy it!
The job market here does not really allow for fulfillment or satisfaction. It's more about "how can we abuse college age kids with low pay and low training..." But I really appreciate your prayers. What is important for me is sort of irrelevant to the jobs that are open for people my age
I have NO clue what you could have possibly learned from me, but I am really happy to hear that you like looking at my work. I will be sticking around, just not really building much (minus my group builds).
As for faith, you may have just inspired something...
Stik:
Everything is a learning curve, yes. I plan on sticking with this for a long time, this is not me giving up. I probably sounded a little more... depressed than I meant to in my announcement. Thanks for the tips about keeping track of what goes well and whatnot.
"The fate of nations, lives, or the world, do not depend upon our hobby work. A little perspective in that respect helps out." I am not exactly sure what that means, but I will keep it in mind. Overall I appreciate your outlook and your comments. Thanks!
I feel I should mention, I fail miserably at communication tone in my posts. I never intended to sound depressed or like I am quitting in my announcement. I simply wanted to explain why I wanted to take a break. The comments it produced, while heartwarming and very helpful were more than I expected! It is a testament to you all for the kinds of things you said. I couldn't be luckier for mustang inviting me here. Now I just need to find one of these in person... hmmm.
