bdt2002
Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs superfan
Slowly over the course of this month, I've been feeling more and more... I guess you could say "in a slump" for reasons I just posted about in a different thread. I'd like to think I do a pretty decent job at covering up my consistent disappointment and just... empty feelings I have every now and then in most of my posts, but when push comes to shove, sometimes we just feel like a massive void of... nothing, really. Not really "good", but far from truly "bad" either. At some point I decided I wanted to make an extensive post about my favorite Pokémon game- scratch that, one of my most personal-feeling video games ever made, but I decided it probably wouldn't be appropriate or even all that fitting to dedicate an entire post or an entire thread to that. Thread etiquette is something I wanted to improve on going into and through 2024, but even so... it's hard to deny the enjoyable rush that comes from being allowed to talk extensively about things you love and what they're so incredible.
It's a feeling that almost anyone can relate to and enjoy, and there's a legitimate argument to be made that doing so might actually be a benefit to one's mental health if handled properly, almost like some weird but extremely effective form of positive reinforcement. That's largely because talking about the things you enjoy can help you train your mind to look for the positive sides of any given situation since your mind will associate your interests with positive emotional reactions. Eventually, you can get to the point where you can learn to appreciate... pretty much anything, at least in theory. I'm not sure how many people I can speak on account of here, but I know that at least for me, posting with a positive mindset helps me to understand things I may have otherwise become far less comfortable with.
There's just one teeny, tiny problem with this idea. What if there's nowhere appropriate to write such a post, especially if you spent a lot of time carefully planning what you wanted to say and how to present your opinions to a larger audience? Like I mentioned earlier, I could have posted elsewhere about my favorite Pokémon game, but for the sake of me wanting to follow thread rules across the Forums, I decided against it. And you know what they say about the solutions to problems- if you can't find a solution to something, than become the solution. And, well, that's how I came up with this thread idea. Whether you've been looking for a place to "gush" about something because it's just that awesome or you need a place to talk positively about a negative topic, this should hopefully be the thread for you. Per usual, I am going to encourage everyone to review the thread rules and posting rules before posting, just so I can try and make the moderators' lives a little easier on them. Happy posting, everyone!
It's a feeling that almost anyone can relate to and enjoy, and there's a legitimate argument to be made that doing so might actually be a benefit to one's mental health if handled properly, almost like some weird but extremely effective form of positive reinforcement. That's largely because talking about the things you enjoy can help you train your mind to look for the positive sides of any given situation since your mind will associate your interests with positive emotional reactions. Eventually, you can get to the point where you can learn to appreciate... pretty much anything, at least in theory. I'm not sure how many people I can speak on account of here, but I know that at least for me, posting with a positive mindset helps me to understand things I may have otherwise become far less comfortable with.
There's just one teeny, tiny problem with this idea. What if there's nowhere appropriate to write such a post, especially if you spent a lot of time carefully planning what you wanted to say and how to present your opinions to a larger audience? Like I mentioned earlier, I could have posted elsewhere about my favorite Pokémon game, but for the sake of me wanting to follow thread rules across the Forums, I decided against it. And you know what they say about the solutions to problems- if you can't find a solution to something, than become the solution. And, well, that's how I came up with this thread idea. Whether you've been looking for a place to "gush" about something because it's just that awesome or you need a place to talk positively about a negative topic, this should hopefully be the thread for you. Per usual, I am going to encourage everyone to review the thread rules and posting rules before posting, just so I can try and make the moderators' lives a little easier on them. Happy posting, everyone!