Quas Retires - Page 3

On December 03 2015 06:45 Zato-1 wrote:

Guess I'll have to make myself useful. Rather than a literal translation, I'll translate what I think he's trying to say and cut down on the rambling, because there's a lot of it. Here goes:

"I want to write to my Venezuelan fans, my countrymen, about the epiphany I have had with my life in the past few days.

I've lived most of my life disconnected emotionally from others: Unsure of myself, unhappy, resentful, thinking that there was something wrong with me somehow.

I grew up in a Venezuela with Hugo Chavez in power. The country was bitterly polarised between his Chavistas and the opposition. Hugo Chavez was a genius as a political leader: his ability to communicate with his supporters was unmatched, speaking directly to their resentment and rage, resonating with them through these feelings and channeling them for his own purposes. With Chavez, facts were often trumped by his rhetoric- it's not about what he said, but HOW he said it that made him so relatable to so many.

Chavez amassed immense power in Venezuela, and he abused the Venezuelan people with it. I felt and expressed much of that same rage that Chavez instilled in so many, but only recently have I begun realizing this, and that compassion with others is so much more beautiful than anger.

As I grew up, when I was bothered by what people did or said, I bottled up my frustration, my rage. Short-term rage grew into long-term resentment, and I became cynical, pessimistic, negative. I would sometimes flaunt my intellectual superiority over others, laugh at them, feel no compassion for them as human beings. This dehumanization of others... this is the stuff that war, suicide and depression are made of.

In the past 3 days of my life, I have begun to share and open up with others in ways I'd never done before, in ways which I didn't even think were possible. I have begun to empathize with others, feeling their fear, their pain, their doubts, and connecting with them.

With this realization, I want to keep on sharing and opening up with others for the rest of my life, and hopefully I can help others free themselves from the grip of this resentment and rage."

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Living in South America, I know all too well what he's talking about. People, especially uneducated people, are more easily controlled by speaking to their feelings than by convincing them with ideas, and populists, usually left-wing ones around here, exploit that by spreading rage and resentment towards "the enemy", whoever that may be. That's what Quas had been taught, and he's just realized what a terrible way to live that is.

If you want me to do any other translations from spanish, just PM me.

On December 03 2015 13:48 F1rstAssau1t wrote:

It's a lot of words that say almost nothing IMO.

But i think Zato got it - he is supah smart!!

On November 29 2015 22:10 Ansibled wrote:

They should have signed Bunnyfufu too.

On December 04 2015 04:13 bbc23 wrote:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snvp0q
Quas retires

On December 04 2015 04:13 bbc23 wrote:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1snvp0q
Quas retires

On December 04 2015 08:35 zulu_nation8 wrote:
best of luck to him

but "suspended for depression" lol, the PR

On December 04 2015 22:43 Ansibled wrote:

No, and no because of foreign player limitations anyway.

On December 05 2015 02:14 Caiada wrote:
If there's anything that should probably be hidden in PR, it's mental health issues about a player retiring anyway. Doesn't matter what he did.

Kind of puts TL in a pretty bad place by my judgment; the whole team is ending up pretty unfortunate...