User blog:Aravis Tarkheena/please just listen to me

"seriously, if you don't like the drama and can get away, just do it and let us go down in flames without any sarcastic comments"

yeah but I have a shred of human compassion and I think you're being ridiculous and if I had a 3-year-old child who spent all their time trying to do something like creating democracy amongst a large group of irreverent and rebellious small frogs, I'd kind of step in and help them to stop wasting their precious time

not that you're frogs, I meant that example literally. But I also mean literally that you honestly need to step back and look out the window and chill out, for the love of your sanity. I'm not telling you to get a real life, because we all have that to some degree, and I'm sure there's a bunch of you all still here who are homeschooled/have oppressive parent/crippling anxiety/other issues, but yikes you need to calm down. This is a website.

I'm not going to be one of those terrible adults who tells you that it's all fake and in five years it won't matter and you'll be ashamed of your youth, because that's a lie and this is valuable time, and I hope you're able to keep the friends you make here, but get this: the democracy doesn't matter, the way this place is run doesn't matter, in five years I hope you still love your friends and value the internet literacy you're gaining by being here, but it will not matter whether you demoted the inactive CMs

(no hard feelings)

or where the absolutely arbitrarily elected leaders here discussed the world-changingly-important things like who got banned, or whether you could use a certain word to express that you're talking about your derrière or whether the small graphic by your name looked cute.

actually, the last one matters. fight for your rights, my frogs

but otherwise, go buy some perspective from Rio, have dumb conversations and make real connections, don't sweat the small, idiotic, stupid stuff that you spend too much time fighting over, like deleting the whole wiki. (incidentally that is a good idea.)

the only thing worth arguing over this much is gun rights, honestly. and if you're down for that hit me up and we'll have a go at it

otherwise, calm down. Focus on the important things like memes and friends and memes and how to code a cool userpage and climbing trees and creating enviable instagram themes and curating a music taste you'll be proud to show your children and memes and the way that Canadian money is waterproof and colourful, and take a few hours off to study and ace some tests and consume some memes

don't fight, my frogs, I love you too much to let your bitterness and pedantic and annoying desires consume you, flames are warm but I don't want you to feel the string of the burn of all those wasted emotions

they're not important, go and live life