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Originally Posted by Scott Ritchie
Hey Ken, I am going to go at this at a different angle. When this is down the road a little I think you have to appreciate how good of a friend Billfred is.
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Ah, yes. You are right of course. I meant to say something about that but forgot because I've been busy catching up to the rest of things in my life. Let me say this once and for all so no one misunderstand why I put Billfred's comment in my original post. I only included it because of how important and honest it is to me.
I have never met anyone (in person) younger than I am who is so mature, so passionate about FIRST, and in many ways wiser than I am, than Billfred, who also gave me the honest opinion of and objective outsider that I needed to hear so much. It is this kind of advice I look for the hardest.
Now mind you that I am not out to look for criticism that will put me into a depression everytime
. It just so happened that this time it was an accumulation of 6 months of stress, doubts, fatigue that hit me so hard after everything is over. What I do want is someone who doesn't care about my "status" in FIRST, who is willing to say what I need to hear, even though at times I could be a little too sensitive about it and take them too personally. It is this side of "fame" that I dread the most, people see that fame before seeing who I really am.
I want all of you to know that it wasn't easy to get it out of Billfred. It took a long day from 7:00am to 11:00pm, lots of matches, lots of work, lots of excitement, lots of stress to do it, and I had to ask many times. And it was only after he said what he said that I was able to face my doubts and fears straight on and make the fall and climb back up from it. It was part of a healing process that needed to take place after a long 6 months.
I consider Billfred a partner in this crazy adventure call Life, something I can only say to few close friends through out the years.
Billfred, you were famous before, you are even more famous now
. I hope you didn't take this the wrong way, and I would be honored if you will come back out to be our game announcer again at Cal Games! Folks in the east coast, Billfred now comes with my official seal of approval
, so you better take care of him, or else!