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Post by toxicboy1980 on Jan 28, 2020 14:34:16 GMT
I was reading yesterday Bill Russell`s tribute to Kobe and i was thinking this feels wrong. Kobe should pay tribute to Russell. Don`t get me wrong i don`t want Russell to die or anything, but it just feels wrong.
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Post by KING KID on Jan 28, 2020 14:57:10 GMT
I heard that actually. Still terrible to watch. I’m not made for that shit so I never should’ve seen it anyways. It’s just too much. Aren't you an EMT? I assume you've seen the most fucked up shit imaginable... In person, no less. I figured you'd be at least somewhat desensitized to at least videos of stuff. I’ve seen bad things but you don’t get desensitized to people dying.
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Post by RT on Jan 28, 2020 15:02:22 GMT
Aren't you an EMT? I assume you've seen the most fucked up shit imaginable... In person, no less. I figured you'd be at least somewhat desensitized to at least videos of stuff. I’ve seen bad things but you don’t get desensitized to people dying. Yup. My dad was a firefighter for 30 something years. He never got used to seeing burnt up bodies or people smeared on the road from car accidents. Fortunately he became an officer and didn’t have to deal with that shit nearly as much in his later years.
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Post by 🤯 on Jan 28, 2020 15:08:29 GMT
Aren't you an EMT? I assume you've seen the most fucked up shit imaginable... In person, no less. I figured you'd be at least somewhat desensitized to at least videos of stuff. I’ve seen bad things but you don’t get desensitized to people dying. I’ve seen bad things but you don’t get desensitized to people dying. Yup. My dad was a firefighter for 30 something years. He never got used to seeing burnt up bodies or people smeared on the road from car accidents. Fortunately he became an officer and didn’t have to deal with that shit nearly as much in his later years. Fair enough. I guess any sorta perceived numbness is maybe just an outward shell for carrying-on purposes... Guess meanwhile inside all the fucked up feelings rage and only stop happening or don't happen if you've gone full psychopath.
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Post by RT on Jan 28, 2020 17:11:14 GMT
I’ve seen bad things but you don’t get desensitized to people dying. Yup. My dad was a firefighter for 30 something years. He never got used to seeing burnt up bodies or people smeared on the road from car accidents. Fortunately he became an officer and didn’t have to deal with that shit nearly as much in his later years. Fair enough. I guess any sorta perceived numbness is maybe just an outward shell for carrying-on purposes... Guess meanwhile inside all the fucked up feelings rage and only stop happening or don't happen if you've gone full psychopath. It varies from person to person. Speaking from personal experience, it made my dad very anxious, and I wish he dealt with that more rather than just worrying all the time. He had seen so many examples of drunk drivers taking out families or idiot teenagers drowning in lakes at cottage parties that he worried sick about his own kids suffering the same fate, to the point where I had to hide things from him for his own sake, like having a few drinks at a house party or whatever. Parents deal with those feelings already, but then throw in actually seeing it happen and the worry goes up tenfold. It was hard on him. Could have been worse though. Some guys turn to booze or forbid their family from living their lives, so at least he wasn’t that bad. Still sucked that I had to lie to him because if I said “I’m staying at Cory’s tonight because I had a couple beers,” he would lose his mind.
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Post by KING KID on Jan 28, 2020 18:32:36 GMT
As RT stated, I think what it’s done to me besides make me very sad is get me very anxious as well. I already cancelled my plans to go to LA in April because I don’t have the nerve to get on a plane at the moment. I know that sounds very crazy BUT it’s the way I am handling this situation. The worst part of it all is that it was Kobe who was genuinely a good person who was trying to do the right thing for the world and his daughter was with him. I just can’t get those nerves out of my system at the moment. Maybe in due time I will but right now it’s still too close and too surreal. As for drunk driving, I’ve driven drunk once or twice in my life and absolutely regretted it and hated myself for weeks after. Especially one time when I was fucking black out drunk like a fucking idiot and blocked someone’s driveway when I got home only to have them ring my bell in the morning. Thank God that it didn’t turn out to be the worst possible scenario but I absolutely learned my lesson after that one.
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