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Self-Improvement and the Mistakes of Your Past


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As most everyone (at least people who check Misc. regularly), I've made a huge fool of myself in the past. And even though I'm better now, I still continue to fall into certain similar patterns. All of my attempts at humor fall flat. My self-deprecation and pretending to be thick-skulled don't make others smile. And a thread I've made doesn't usually draw the intended reaction from people.

 

No matter what I do, it always feels like I'm the laughingstock. Whenever I joke around, people... don't take it as I want. I just never get the reaction I want out of anyone. Sometimes, people miss the point of my friends to brutally mock me. 

 

I've tried plenty of self-deprecation and making light of my SJW phase. Recently, I tried it again. Everyone laughed, but not at the joke - at me. And it hurts. I just can't seem to escape the leftover mockery from my previous mistakes.

 

I just want to improve myself so this community will accept me. I want to post things that make people smile., I don't want to be mocked at every turn, my threads abused and turned against me.

 

I want to erase the mistakes of my past. 

 

Has anyone gone through something similar before? Can anyone relate to this? How do I fix my mistakes from a time when I understood less, even if that time was two hours ago? Because sometimes I forget the lessons of my past and make a mistake.

 

Will this ever change?

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"SJW phase" referred to that broken record phase, not being an SJW.

wasn't that only a few days ago?

 

Or is this the classic case of being an ass "ironically"

Just shut up for a few months and people won't even remember you. Bam. Clean slate.

 

Get some new material in the process too, please.

doesn't work, sheet follows you
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wasn't that only a few days ago?

 

Or is this the classic case of being an ass "ironically"

 

Oh, you mean this.

 

It was neither. I was clickbaiting you with a title that was sure to get you to read my post, only to get hit by a serious case of hella gay.

 

Just shut up for a few months and people won't even remember you. Bam. Clean slate.

 

Get some new material in the process too, please.

Okay, I'll just do that, and-

 

doesn't work, HELL YEAH follows you

 

nvm.

 

Stop trying so hard, tbh.

 

Depends on the HELL YEAH. A running gag doesn't really follow you much tbh. HELL YEAH like the SJW and other HELL YEAH isnt' going to follow the guy, tbh.

 

 

nvm about my nvm, also thx for a solution.

 

Idc about your threads but your ass ignored like 2 pms and a couple @s for my tournament that HELL YEAH ain't cool

 

Oh, so that's what it is. Sorry, I just lost interest. Can you forget about that please?

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Tbh, there is no real way to move on from the past unless you stop caring about it so much. Sure, we were laughing but the subject wasn't you. It was just cracking jokes, there was no subject truly at hand and the intent of the laughter was nothing more than the idea of laughing. If you want to improve, stop trying to make everything a joke or humorous if the humor is taken in any other form that what you want it to be. Just be authentically you, as much as you can understand yourself to be.

Giga is thinking there is more weight to sheet, and sometimes there is. Most of the time, people have so much sheet to deal with and focus on that they realistically don't give more than a laugh or two until it is time to move up. The weight of the joke is nothing more than a laugh without a subject at hand. And that is how it should be looked at. No one is joking to make a joke of you unless you're trying to make a joke that can be seen as you. It doesn't matter have the time.

If you can't take it like a joke, then don't make the joke until you can understand this. If you want to move on from it, just move on from it with something new that doesn't meet the same parameters.

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You mention your "SJW phase" as if it's something in the past, when it feels like you're still doing that. If you don't want to be mocked at every time, it probably doesn't help when your "humor" revolves entirely around a nebulous group of faceless punching bags because "SJWs are terrible, amirite?"

 

The people who don't smile or won't give you the reaction you want are simply tired of the jokes. You're appealing to the lowest common denominator, so what is there to appreciate? If you're upset that you think people are mocking you, put yourself on the other side of this. Your jokes are themselves about mocking people. Why exactly do you think stupid jokes about SJWs are going to make people laugh? If your goal is to make people smile and laugh, why is this the route you chose to accomplish that? If you don't like when you've been mocked by other people, do you really think the best material you have for jokes should be about you getting to mock people in return?

 

That said, to answer your question about relating to it, while it's not healthy to scapegoat other people, it's just as unhealthy to beat yourself up as if you alone are responsible for mistakes that you regret. Sometimes you can let out that other people have genuinely hurt you. Even if they refuse to ever admit fault for the pain they've caused you, and others will be all too happy to let them get away with it, that doesn't mean you should decide that the only person left to blame is yourself.

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Oh, you mean this.

 

It was neither. I was clickbaiting you with a title that was sure to get you to read my post, only to get hit by a serious case of hella gay.

 

The fact is that you're asking people to forget your past "mistakes"...while also referring to those mistakes in the titles of posts, and, furthermore, expecting people to remember those mistakes for the purpose of clickbaiting.

 

I've tried plenty of self-deprecation and making light of my SJW phase. Recently, I tried it again. Everyone laughed, but not at the joke - at me. And it hurts. I just can't seem to escape the leftover mockery from my previous mistakes.

 

This is not the way to turn over a new slate. You're attempting to make light of it while not really having any other sort of presence outside of that phase. In fact, you self-deprecation along hella gay dank maymays is also becoming a broken record, not really setting up the field for a "new" Skater.

 

Although it's certainly not a big a thing as you're experiencing, I had a habit of vanishing from YCM, disappearing when times got tough or when I felt I had messed up. Each time, I came back, and I didn't really make a big deal of it. I just tried to slide in as though nothing had happened, and it worked. People still joke about me having leaving so many things abandoned and not taking responsibility, sometimes more seriously than others, but I've shown them that there's more to me than that. More to like than that.

 

The kid who everyone makes fun of doesn't become more popular by making fun of himself.

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