allen-1
NES Member
Great post. Know exactly what you bring to the table and don’t be afraid to eat alone.
You (we all) have to remind ourselves that a lot of folks in the online communities were shut ins before all this lock down started, they’ve never really felt or lived in an alpha role outside or in their daily lives.
Now give them some seniority online, a cheap plate carrier and a couple guns in their safe and they assume an alpha personality, without the actual experience of learning and understanding that being an alpha actually doesn’t mean talking shit and being an a**h*** to everybody around you.
You can see that in the temper tantrums that they throw and the amount of disrespect they expel to others they don’t even know, without fear of any physical backlash that would’ve been learned on the street.
(Excerpt from Dr Cams’ daily motivational)
I was an active participant on rec.motorcycles.harley, and there was a poster who lived in Ohio who kept giving me shit. Above and beyond what was "normal" for that time and place. I told him that if he didn't lighten up that I'd take a ride and come visit him. A couple of other people who know me told him that I wasn't joking. He didn't believe me or them.
A friend of friends lived in assisted living at that time - he'd been in a horrible motorcycle accident - and some of my friends put together a birthday party for him. The party was in Ohio. Can you guess where this is going?
My buddy Bob lives in Vermont. I met him in Massachusetts, and we rode out to Ohio for the weekend. Keyboard commando literally turned white when we were introduced. I didn't have to say a word, just smiled.
We celebrated Eddie's birthday, and Bob and I rode home. That poster in rmh was a lot more civil after that.
What he hadn't understood was that rmh was chock full of guys who love to ride. I have friends I met there who live all over the country, literally, and I've been to many of their homes - had many of them in my homes.
This is a big country, but we can travel freely throughout it.