Colonoscopy - Page 4

On September 02 2009 23:35 iaguz wrote:
Sigh, I know I'm going to get in trouble for this...

Is it just me, or am I the only one who finds feeling overly sympathetic for Plexa somewhat impossible. Perhaps it's because I haven't been on TL.net for a very long time and haven't witnessed his, and with 15k posts I can only assume it's significant, contribution to the site's prestige, but give me a break. Consider his story without the TL.net aspect:

* Rich privileged kid who receives a VERY good education that millions in Western Countries cannot hope to receive.
* Is clearly very academically intelligent and well educated, which only makes me think of him more of a nob.
* And we're meant to feel sorry for him because he doesn't go see a Doctor when the fact that painfully shitting too many times a day is something that should probably be checked out.

I dunno. Maybe if you had a real disease like Aids or Cancer or Kidney stones or Sudden Death Syndrome, then perhaps yeah, I could muster at least some sympathy, but as it is it just looks like the sort of thing you'd see on a 6:30 pm Current Affairs program.

I suppose my point is that we've all got problems. I've got butt problems myself (less debilitating, more hilarious) and my brother has the same, but far far worse, and I count ourselves lucky. I count myself fortunate that the worst I can lame on about is a sinus that occasionally sprouts a cyst at the top of my arsecrack (polynidal sinus for you medical types) that likes to spit pus and blood and making sitting down at a certain angle very uncomfortable (also, born without a sense of smell. Never had one, probably never will). Because no matter how bad you think shit is for you, odds are 50% of the other people on this planet (and considering your upbringing it's a fuckload bigger then 50%) have it a bazillion times worse.

On September 03 2009 22:16 7mk wrote:
wtf why doesn't your mother support you?

On September 03 2009 23:29 EsX_Raptor wrote:


Stop the whine man.

Yes, you can see Plexa is a pretty successful guy with a descent life. Who the hell gets such excellent grades in school and all of those scholarships? It's easy to envy someone like that, specially if you're straight from the low, low class.

Like me.

I think Plexa's story relates to mine at least distantly; I was once a very, very rich kid living in a private urbanization owned by Venezuela's largest and, if not, only oil company in the country, PDVSA. We had our own free golf club, country club with huge pools, bowling, karaoke, restaurants, concerts, baseball games all of it free. My dad worked as an EE for the company, my life was pretty much all set.

Then president Hugo Chavez got out of control and turned the country to pure shit. He destroyed PDVSA and we were all forced to leave the residencies at the point of a gun barrel (long story short).

Me and my family immediately left the country with the money we had left, a decision judged by our relatives as stupid as they thought the country would balance itself out again, something that to this day hasn't happened, and doesn't look like it's going to while that man still remains in power; this is the rise of a second Fidel Castro.

We arrived in Texas, U.S. during a winter five years ago, and none of us could speak a single word in English. My dad's degree in EE was dumped in the trash by the American government, my mom got sick with a thyroid disease disabling her from ever working again (she was a teacher), and for the first time in my life, I had to work along with my dad to support my family; carrying cables, my hands bled like I never thought they ever would, I never before in my life had experienced cold weather (and they say Texas is hot), though the most painful thing yet, was that it sorely hurt me to see my dad working like this, and even though from time to time he would throw a happy glance at me, I knew that deep inside he was hurting.

But he adapted to the circumstances nonetheless, and so did I.

I consider it a miracle from God that my dad is currently working again as an engineer (even though not fully legit) for a gas company, my mom has substantially recovered from her disease and is now more happy, my two younger siblings are going to and doing well in school, and I am about to graduate with a CS degree paying for my tuitions with the money I get from working during the summer doing research, I sadly can't get any scholarships or loans since I'm not even a resident of the U.S. but that won't stop me from going to graduate school.

Hell no it won't stop me.

Also, all of us learned how to speak the language! Though we still have the funny accents haha.

So learn to value what you have in your life and get as much as you can out of it. What's the point of living a life of regret when you know you can do waay more.

Plexa, even though you're currently sick, don't let that stop you from achieving the goals you wanted to achieve when you were well before, that is no excuse! Keep a healthy and happy lifestyle and someday you'll realize there are no boundaries for what you can and want to accomplish; don't let something like that define the boundaries for you, because I know you can define them yourself bro!

:D

Alright peace.

On September 05 2009 20:22 Cloud wrote:
Plexa should be given hotbids old icon and join the ranks of team liquid members as liquid_shit.