Beware the Bradshaw
She told the entire Southern Baptist university we both attended that I had been watching porn in the living room of my dorm, with my other roommate. In fact, my other roommate and I had been watching Sex & the City, but ya know. There’s sex, so. Must be porn.
stugglenus
World of Warcraft was just too much.
He nosedived hard into a downward spiral of really piss-poor decisions and just kept singing the blues about how bad his life was as though he weren’t actively and directly contributing to it being that way.
Here are the lowlights (in chronological order):He quit college and signed up for ITT Tech because a friend of his said it was better than college. He quit ITT Tech six months later when he realized it was a scam.
He dumped an absolutely amazing girl because he “wanted to see if life would bring them back together again” (whatever the fuck that means). In reality, he just wanted to have sex with other girls. She now owns a small ad agency in Northern California and, from everything I see on social media, a fairly jet-set life.
He got involved with a guy he met at ITT Tech in a scheme to sell/trade stolen credit card numbers over IRC/tor. They were busted in the early stages of their escapade. His family bailed him out and he immediately fled to Europe. It was a misdemeanor crime (his first offense) and he was looking a fine and some community service. But ol’ Edward Snowden over here ran like he had been charged with international espionage.When he came back a year or so later– penniless after his family finally turned their back on him– he got _actual_jail time for running.
He really started circling the drain after his 90-day stint in jail (which, the way he talked about it, you would have thought he did a 10-year stretch in San Quentin). He went through countless jobs, constantly getting evicted from apartments or kicked out of friend’s houses.
Then he got full-blown addicted… [sigh]… to World of Warcraft. I’ve had friends get addicted to smack, pills and booze… but I never saw any of them get engulfed by their addictions like WoW did to him. A heroin addict never talks about heroin to their friends who don’t also do heroin– but this apparently isn’t the case with WoW addicts. He’d go on for hours about a game I’ve never played and never showed any interest in playing. I got him a job interview with a family friend who owned an IT company. The job was right up his alley– decent pay, minimal supervision, flexible schedule. Not only that, but the company was starting to grow and the owner was looking to put a management structure in place– so there was some headroom for growth. Basically, all he had to do was show up at the interview, put a few semi-cogent sentences together and the job was his.
He never went to the interview. His excuse? He was up late raiding the night before and slept through his alarm. He begged me to call the guy and set up another interview. I lied told him I tried but the guy had already filled the position.
He called me one day and was absolutely hysterical. Apparently, his ex-roommate, upset about the back rent owed to him, stole his computer. He said he was contemplating suicide because his life wasn’t worth living without WoW. And that’s where I tapped out. I couldn’t anymore. It was like watching someone slowly drown in 3 inches of water and refuse to stand up, roll over or do literally anything other than lay there face-down and die.
I still remember the last thing I said to him. “You’re a 27 year-old man. If you’re thinking about killing yourself because you can’t play a fucking video game, then it’s probably the first bright idea you’ve had in a while.”
I wish I hadn’t said that to him– but I did. I was furious and disgusted with him. I hated watching my bright, ambitious, amazing best friend slowly wither into this sniveling loser. I didn’t respect him anymore since he refused to do anything to help himself. Whenever there was a problem, he’d choose the easy, lazy or foolhardy solution. Whenever there was an opportunity, he’d go out of his way to mess it up, marginalize it or ignore it.
beefwich
Stop trying to convert me.
I became a Buddhist and she became a fundamentalist Christian..I tried but soon realized keeping her at a distance was the healthiest and most compassionate thing I could do; eventually she realized I would not engage her when she started trying to convert me and talking badly about my spiritual choices and we just faded out. It something I feel sad about as we were very close friends.
cheesypotatopierogi
