valuable lessons of Teardrop building

[working on it]

In another thread http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=56167, which I inadvertently killed (my thread kill average is 18.08%, or one per every 5.53 threads), I made an erroneous statement.
Oldragbaggers wrote:.teardrops are good therapy!!!
I said: I think I got it all wrong, for a while I thought teardrops would drive me to seek therapy. All in all, maybe it has been a therapeutic exercise!. I re-evaluated that statement...building Teardrops or TTTs is definitely therapeutic. I've developed some marginal skills at woodworking, patience, planning, and joining in with others in a "social network" of sorts. Granted, none of the learned lessons are complete, nor even comparable to the growth shown in those areas by some others here, but they are more than I bargained for. Woodworking: I used to dread working with wood (not my medium), now I fear it not, and will do home repairs quicker and better than I had done before. Patience: 21 months on a TTT build, without once using it before it was done (I never could wait to use my racecar, and ran it before I was really ready). Planning (long-term goals): I would throw parts at my cars/trucks, never with a final goal in mind, and was never satisfied with the results, until now. Because of setting a goal, and reaching it (all the parts fit together, with some alterations. And Joining In: I used to either socialize in a personal fashion (dragracing), or thru a car forum, but never mixing the two interests. I feared that my accomplishments in one field wouldn't translate to another ( I actually raced against other people from the forum, and beat them, while my persona on the forum was never good enough). I never let on, and drifted away from the forum. An ego trip. But now, knowing that my TTT is just one of many, not as polished as most, but exactly the way I envisioned it...I can't wait to join the others I've read about, see their works, and embrace the differences. Maybe I've grown a little older and wiser (one more than the other); or have I gotten therapy by internet, and the allure of Teardrops (et al)?

[Mary C]

Well, you are a year or so older and you have matured a little but what I see the most is a little wisdom. So if you took a toll on here (which I don't advise) there are as many different people on here as are in the world from the quick, short tempered to the the ones who don't like talk but will bore you with details about the solar flairs in relationship to the molecture stuff on a solar panel some like toast and others like bisquits and some don't like breakfast at all and are laid back. The thing is, everyday we grow in our own lives and by what you said you had a growth spurt. congratulations You should love yourself!!!

Mary C.