: If I would give you any advice on life in general, always put marthon behind
: whatever comes up. It's just a game, so don't let it get all of your
: focus. I'm speaking of own experiences. When I was in your age I lost the
: opportunity of personal growth when I rather played marathon then meeting
: new friends and being social. It wasn't for years later I noticed how
: isolated I was and decided I should do something about it. It took some
: time to get back on track, and it was literally a pain in the ass
: experience. However when I look back on it, I realise something went wrong
: much earlier and marathon was just my way of ignoring my problems. So even
: though your parents takes away marathon, they probably just do it because
: they love you.
I, most of the time anyway, am able to put Marathon behind other, real-life things, but this is such a great little comunity whare that people are nice and and the gamne itself is great for stress release. School, for me anyway, is an exersize in frustration and unpleasentness, because nobady can stand the idea of their child being "average", which is what a "C" is supposed to mean. But no, "My child is very gifted, and you just can't see it!!" is the way of things these days, so the schools respond acordingly. I'm a pretty laid-back guy, I like taking stuff slow and just enjoying myself. Socaity wants us to grow up fast, and I want to chill out and have a little fun. There is that fabled balance, like thermoplyae said, but compremise sucks, nessasary as it is. By now I probaly sound kind of like I'm whining, which I suppose I am, to a cretain extent; I canlt do anything to change the situation other then give into the educational system, which I will find unpleasent. But I am pretty lucky, I know plenty of people who's parents freak out when they get less then all "A"s, or at least 'A's and 'B's. Stupid GT, why did I have to do well in second grade?
