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bywandandsword · 6 months

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Listen to me, listen to me If someone comes up to you, bouncing with excitement about an idea, but as they're explaining it to you, you realize the idea isn't feasible to achieve, DO NOT just pop this person's excitement bubble and walk away

You gently, tactfully, kindly point out the holes in their idea. Then offer solutions and/or get them to start brainstorming on how to make the idea feasible. At the very least, be encouraging

It sucks ass to be on the receiving end of someone popping your excitement bubble and leaving you totally deflated. And nothing will stop me from coming to you with things I'm excited about faster than it

#Sword speaks #this post brought to you by my dad who's very new to gardening but excited about it #this man is under so much stress and doesn't get excited over much these days #but earlier he saw a video where a guy made it look like he could grow an apple and grape tree hybrid #now it might be obvious to some that it doesn't work like that but like I said my dad doesn't know much about gardening #and he got really excited about the idea and started showing the video around to our family #and saying he wants to try it #one member of my family just said 'that's fake stop falling for stupid videos'#and you could just see dad deflate and start to close off #BUT NOT ON MY WATCH BITCHES #I did a bunch of research and sent him what I found and explained why the video isn't realistic #then I sent him information on grafting multi-fruit trees and showed him some examples #I did the same with hybridization #I even sent him info on bonsai fruit trees cause they're cute and dad's a softie #and watched him get excited again! Then I told off the person who made the initial statement #cause c'mon don't be a douchebag #this man barely gets to have any fun let him have some fun!

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