Sacrificing Yourself.

[Subeinu]

Hi everyone.
This is something I have been pondering about for quite a wile now.
But are anyone out there constantly sacrificing themselves for anything?, or have sacrificed themselves a couple of times for some reason?
And I do not mean it in the death way.

What I mean is that you keep on throwing yourself infront of someone you care about taking the full blow for something just to save the other person in any way shape or form.

Example 1:
A good friend of mine from college and another good friend of mine from college. Let's call them "I" and "M". Me and "I" liked "M" in the loveing way. He knew that I liked her and felt threatned by me since I had the better chance and that made him quite depressed. I then threw away my feelings and possible future happiness to help him get with her. They have now been together for quite some months.
Sacrificed myself emotionally.

Example 2:
We were playing volleyball and we had gotten new poles to have the net in. The wierd part was that one of the poles did not want to stay stuck so we managed to place lots of stones around it so it would stay there. My friend "M" tripped becouse of her foot and shortly after the pole started to sway and fall in her direction. I was the closest person so I jumped ontop of her and managed to grab a hold on the pole, screwing up my shoulder and back in the process.

Example 3:
In any MMO's I play I keep dying for people to save them giving me all the penalties of death. I'm usually a squishy, high damage dealing class so I usually grab the enemies and die making time for my friends to escape.

So yeah that was 3 examples of what I meant.
So are you a sacrificial lamb like me and if you are share your stories!​

 

[Dean Winchester]

I can relate with the first example, although I did it once and shortly realized it was an horrible mistake (got backstabbed ). So no, I am not the self sacrificing type anymore mainly because I know that most friendships never last forever. People love, deceive and betray, and it is a very mean world out there full of liars. Since it takes me a lot of effort to trust others, I guess I am not given enough time to grow to attached to sacrifice myself if the case is present. Of course, I can be very protective of those who manage to earn my trust (and I believe on prevention, not sacrifice). The world does not need martyrs, their time has long since passed. What the world needs is people who are willing to take the chances at life and go all speed ahead taking whetever risks necessary to reach their dreams. I am not going to go through life sacrificing myself just to prevent others from learning from their own mistakes. We all make mistakes, and we must learn from them alone. You either lead, follow, or get out of the way.

If I were to sacrifice myself for something it should be out of the lack of options, only if it is strictly necessary and if it were a life or death choice, I would take the risk while ensuring my safety aswell (because if I die out of recklessness, then some of my friends would suffer and that is not correct). You know, you are of no use to anybody if you are dead, and that applies to both life and games.


So, no I haven't, aside from that stupid mistake I committed which I mentioned at the beginning of this post. .

 

[Talbain]

Sacrifice is the name of the game in Risk. I gave a guy all of my army cards in the hope that our little alliance (which had been pushed all the way to Australia and bits of Asia) could make a comeback, unfortunately the game ended before we had a chance to finish.

 

[niesl2]

Example 1:
A good friend of mine from college and another good friend of mine from college. Let's call them "I" and "M". Me and "I" liked "M" in the loveing way. He knew that I liked her and felt threatned by me since I had the better chance and that made him quite depressed. I then threw away my feelings and possible future happiness to help him get with her. They have now been together for quite some months.
Sacrificed myself emotionally.

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Had a situation like this once, but afterwards I (and with me some other friends) discovered that this guy actually was a selfish idiot, so we stopped hanging out with him. The relationship also didn't last, and this has taught me to never do this kind of stuff again.

 

[Kandy-Sugar]

Can't say that I've ever been in any of those sort of situations before.

I'm not really the type to sacrifice my own happiness or wellbeing for someone close to me let alone someone I hardly know.

I guess if a situation arose in which it really mattered I might consider it, but I can be rather selfish sometimes.

If I needed to do something for Steve in order to ensure his happiness over my own then I'm sure I would, but generally I am not a sacrificial person. >.<

 

[Tyler Breeze]

Nah, it don't be'z like dat to me.

Okay seriously no. I'm not gonna be the sacrificial lamb anymore. I just won't do it! Ugh, anyway I won't sacrifice myself. Actually I'll probably grab the person closest to me and sacrifice them.

Aww the other team got you? Sorry.

That's it. Is it mean? Absolutely. But I've sacrificed too much already. I will live on in my video game, at the expense of everybody else.