I know it's not my business, but I think this is the sort of attitude more people would be appreciative of in general. See people eye to eye, squash the beef, deliver the goods. I think at this point it's overblown in your own mind what people think of you in the states, but if you just show up to the gatherings/ majors, answer those who call on you like what SoCal and MN are essentially doing, and play whichever heads have something to say (versus talking or blogging about them) then you'd be surprised how easily you can erase whatever stigma exists in actuality. This is stemming from your supposed standpoint that you're just better off in Mexico given the circumstances. Maybe you shouldn't care, but making the effort demands only respect.
I understand this, but at the same time people have to understand that I cannot be traveling everywhere all the time. I have to look out for my own interests because what happens if I keep traveling everywhere?
People get spoiled by it and start expecting me to keep doing it all the time (See Final Round primary example). That's what happened in the USA basically. All I am doing now is taking care of as many things as I can while I am going to be in the areas themselves anyways since this is not making an actual tournament.
Now I won't be able to do this all the time, so I hope people don't expect me to be traveling all the time again around the USA...
I'm just killing two birds with one stone.
I don't want people expecting that I am going to keep traveling to a lot of places on an annual basis all the time because that's not gonna happen. It's gonna be if I can do it I will.
Otherwise if they wanna get mad about that again we will be right back where we started. If I was traveling all over the USA people would be fine when I did go to their place, but then they'd easily forget the next year if I don't!!!
Again who am I taking care of here? What about what I want? I feel all this time I've been taking care of everyone else and not taking care of myself (and in turn I got burnt out and tired of it).
So what have I been doing? Taking care of myself (I realized I have been going about this thing backwards, how can I hope to take care of others if I am not even taking care of myself?).
Again I just hope by me going everywhere and like to FR when 13 hits the locals don't start EXPECTING me to show up every year because that's when there is a problem, when people EXPECT me to show up to places every year..
My focus areas in the USA are the following:
SoCal and Minnesota.
John you vs. me in 98UM??? I'm ready!!!! (I know Kula will be watching!!!)
Let's do this!
Oscar- I may or may not be able to make that. Especially since I will be in California the month right after I have to look and see...