An interesting situation...
Posted December 4th, 2012 at 04:15 PM by himynameisjoe
Tags crash, death, motorcycle, whattodo
I didn't really want to post this on the actual forum, but I'd still like to get some opinions on this I guess.
Okay so first I'll tell you some back story. About 5 years ago, I met one of my best friends in the whole world. We actually met on Xbox Live, and have just been really close for years. I go up to visit quite regularly and his family has turned into a second family for me. I will mention he's 32 this year, and I'm pretty much like a little brother to him.
Shortly after I met him, he had started having a lot of problems mentally and at 1 point didn't leave the house for almost a year because of extreme agoraphobia and anxiety. The cause of all of this was his best friend had died in a motorcycle accident 5 months before I met him.
Now here's the thing, I've always loved motorcycles and always knew I would own at least one in my life. Then I found this out and I guess I kind of just figured it wasn't worth putting him through that much stress over it. But now I'm 20 years old, I've taken a safety course and I'm buying a bike.
He's not happy about this. Like he won't even give me any credit. I was telling him about the fact that I am 100% ATGATT and have taken a safety course and plan on taking more of them. But he just doesn't care. He won't reason with me, and he won't speak about it anymore.
I feel bad sometimes, but then at the same time, I don't. I've always been the type of person that has lived for the moment, and have lived for me. And me alone. If it makes me happy, I don't really care what you think about it.
Is this a selfish way of thinking? Or is that reasonable? I mean I feel terrible that his friend was killed, but his friend also wasn't wearing a helmet from what I know. I just don't know.
Okay so first I'll tell you some back story. About 5 years ago, I met one of my best friends in the whole world. We actually met on Xbox Live, and have just been really close for years. I go up to visit quite regularly and his family has turned into a second family for me. I will mention he's 32 this year, and I'm pretty much like a little brother to him.
Shortly after I met him, he had started having a lot of problems mentally and at 1 point didn't leave the house for almost a year because of extreme agoraphobia and anxiety. The cause of all of this was his best friend had died in a motorcycle accident 5 months before I met him.
Now here's the thing, I've always loved motorcycles and always knew I would own at least one in my life. Then I found this out and I guess I kind of just figured it wasn't worth putting him through that much stress over it. But now I'm 20 years old, I've taken a safety course and I'm buying a bike.
He's not happy about this. Like he won't even give me any credit. I was telling him about the fact that I am 100% ATGATT and have taken a safety course and plan on taking more of them. But he just doesn't care. He won't reason with me, and he won't speak about it anymore.
I feel bad sometimes, but then at the same time, I don't. I've always been the type of person that has lived for the moment, and have lived for me. And me alone. If it makes me happy, I don't really care what you think about it.
Is this a selfish way of thinking? Or is that reasonable? I mean I feel terrible that his friend was killed, but his friend also wasn't wearing a helmet from what I know. I just don't know.
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You live your life the way you see fit and should not be tied up just because somebody you met through a friggin game service doesn't approve. You don't need his approval and most of all, he has no business trying to control what you do.
Then again I'm a heartless bastard so sprouting stuff like that comes easily to me.Posted March 20th, 2013 at 12:21 PM by dave42 -
Posted March 20th, 2013 at 01:14 PM by himynameisjoe