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fandomsecrets2011-05-04 07:46 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-05-04 07:46 pm
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(Anonymous) 2011-05-05 03:26 am (UTC)(link)Before I left, I was living the life of a kid. A child. I was living as a spoiled college fratboy, living in base housing and getting smashhammered on the weekends and paying my phone bill and deluding myself that I was a fer realzies grown-up now that I wasn't living with mom and dad. I'd never been in a real relationship. I'd never had real responsibilities. I was twenty-three and the most important decision I had to make on a given night was if I wanted to draw or write and how much rum I'd consume while doing so.
When I say I grew up over there, I mean it in pretty much every sense of the phrase. I finally understood that I didn't know a damn thing about being in love. I became a vital component of my division. I helped complete mission after mission. I learned what a black sense of humor the world has, and how beautiful things can happen in ugly places. I GREW UP.
And somewhere in there, I also grew away. The life I lived before does not hold nearly as much appeal now. My experiences have pushed me beyond the person I was before. I've moved on to something else.
So please, for the love of Christ, untwist thy panties from their current pretzel-like configuration and grow a little pride. Not every common phrase is a veiled insult to your lifestyle and thus does not require you to defend yourself.
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(Anonymous) 2011-05-05 04:13 am (UTC)(link)On the one hand, I agree that the previous anon was totally out of line in denying your experience and the growing up it pushed you through.
On the other hand... There IS a strong and pervasive stereotype that ONLY kids like pre-army!you - or people with the same assumed level of maturity - can be involved in fandom. Some of us have heard this said a bit too often, along with the derisive conclusion that we too will drop fandom when we finally properly grow up. So when someone says "I lived through very serious things, so I grew up, and now fandom doesn't interest me anymore", what we hear once again is "mature people don't do fandom". That may not be what you meant to say, but it still sounded awfully close to it.
Quite frankly, I don't see what the point was in mentioning your growing up at all. If you'd just said, "the army changed me and now I can't seem to go back to the ways I used to enjoy fandom", I don't think anyone would have had a problem with that. It's just life, really.
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(Anonymous) 2011-05-05 04:25 am (UTC)(link)If it makes the more butthurt anons feel better, playing with LEGOS is still the most amazing thing, ever.
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(Anonymous) 2011-05-05 04:43 am (UTC)(link)