Wot 'bout Oz. Can we call it Oz? (Well, I call it Oz, but I spell it Aus in my head when I say it.) One of my old warcraft guilds I was in was called Wizards of Auz.
In other news, I am trying to take a break from twitter, because for some reason lately it has turned into a venue where I pick up internet strays, and they're all in their early 20s and mostly just tweet the kind of angsty crap that I would have tweeted in my early 20s. The difference here is that I don't have time to deal with all their bullshit, and I'm not mean enough to tell them to just bugger off and deal with it themselves. (If it's fake-problems, not like, legitimate problems, because I always have time to help people who are really in a bad spot, but still.)
And then I got thinking about how none of us really know what we're doing in life, or how best to approach the curveballs that get thrown at us, besides trying to keep a good attitude and learn things, and don't let the bad shit, or stupid people, turn you into a dick. But at the same time, over the years I've learned not to let people hang on just because they feel like they need me, if I feel like they're dragging me down.
Because, at the end of the day, you're the only person who's really gonna fight for you. If you don't stand up for yourself and take charge, no one else will. And I don't have the energy to haul around someone's ass emotionally when their own effort is basically
this.
TL;DR: Haul your own ass around and take care of your own damn problems, and do your best to befriend people who do the same. Be kind to everyone, yes, but you don't carry shit you don't have to.