chaddd
Smash Lord
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2006
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It's not a question of my feelings be hurt one way or the other. I've never invested anything particularly emotional in this game at any tournament. It's more a question of, in Grand Finals, it's your state's supposed best vs out of state's supposed best. The idea of cheering for the latter just shows that there's much more than ability coming into play. It's become quite clear to me that a lot of people in the state don't like me because I'm arrogant.Umm, If you'll look back at my post, you'll see that I was referring only to what I have actually seen myself. So while it may be true that you have stood behind Wes in a match cheering "Go Wes," I never said anywhere that it hasn't happened.
And even if somebody was cheering for OoS against you, so what? It's ok to be friends with and cheer for TN.
Next time I see you playing a match, I'll be sure to root for you as loud as I can, so your feelings don't get hurt.
But the line between arrogance and confidence is self defined. If a large group of people are too insecure to be as confident in themselves as me, then they shouldn't tell me I'm too arrogant for doing so. If you don't believe in yourself, then no one's going to do it for you. The first step to becoming great at anything is believing you are already. If you let stupid simple social aspects affect your public attitude about yourself, then you've fallen victim to the curse of mediocrity. Having no vocal confidence in yourself in order to fit in is one of the saddest things I've ever heard of. I started this game with the intention of winning. I didn't, honestly, start playing to make friends. Impressing or appealing to a large group of people who believe you shouldn't vocalize your own confidence doesn't interest me in the slightest. Especially when I know over half of you won't even think twice about me once this phase in out lives has past. It's unimportant now, and it will be even more so then. So for right now, like it or not, this attitude has put me where I am now, and that just happens to be at the very top of the state. It's not a coincidence. It's called caring enough about yourself to realize spending your life concerned with what others will think is how you end up working a desk job trying to work your way up to manager for the rest of your life. Mediocrity simply isn't good enough for me, I'm sorry. What others see as arrogance, I simply see as a belief in myself, and if I haven't proven that it works already, then I don't know what else to try and tell you.
You b@stard.