As you saw in my post on noise amplification, that some times its very difficult to trace exactly what your pain points are.  Its also amazingly difficult for people to empathize with you if you don’t share with them.  Not that long ago I was pretty much convinced that I was going to have to leave my guild.  The noise in my head had grown to such a level that I was getting stressed out.  I couldn’t see the forest for the trees so to speak. 

It grew to the point that I stepped down as an officer.  I walked away from being the raid organizer and overall I just couldn’t handle the noise.  Its amazing when you sit back after the fact and have that hind sight that you can see how overwhelmed you were and just kind of view it with a distant sort of detachment.

For me though I really lost my way till I found a way to tune back in to what’s fun.
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What is Noise? Well I guess from one perspective its just that loud stuff you hear. For some noise is Mozart. For others its hard core gangsta rap. For others its the noise coming out of other people’s mouths. At the end of the day, noise is what is typically referred to as a bad thing. Noise can be a minor annoyance like the beginning of your favorite radio station fading out, or it can be as loud as the cacophony of a high rise going up as you walk by.

Noise means different things to different people. What to one person is just a simple minor annoyance becomes a full blow explosion in another person’s view. Our guild is at one of those difficult stages in life. We are not big enough to effectively field a 25 man force, but large enough that we have a lot of overflow on our 10 mans. So for some, theres stress and noise everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »