Cheat Codes

~ Gottfried

The reward for hard work is more work. So settle for less and stop working. It’s pointless. Is cheating wrong? Cheaters don’t think cheating is wrong until they get cheated on. Which is why you must never get cheated on. Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence. Don’t surprise me. If you’re going to cheat, make it seem like it’s their fault. Only one gender is capable of this.

Why people cheat. Most people cheat because they’re paying more attention to what they’re missing rather than what they have. If you know someone is already taken, please respect their relationship. Don’t be the reason they end up single. At least let them stay in the relationship and be taken for granted.

Cheating is not an accident. Falling off a bike is an accident. You don’t just trip and fall into your ex-lovers bed. You made effort for that to happen. You undid your shoelaces and deservedly tripped. The worst kind of hurt is betrayal, because it means someone was willing to hurt you just to make themselves feel better. Your dedication to being an arsehole has earned my respect.

The moment that you start to wonder if you deserve better, you do. Even if it means defrauding the government. You only have one life to live, better make it count. What would you rather be, ridiculously rich for ten years or poor forever? The choice is yours. Or you can just live a boring not too poor life like the rest of us. Nah, take the first offer!

Cheating is a choice, not a mistake. To be good at it, you must be deliberate. You knew what you were doing and you knew it would hurt but somehow that still didn’t stop you. If another woman steals your man, there’s no better revenge than letting her keep him. Real men can’t be stolen. You’ll be lonely though. Just putting that out there. Lonely and miserable.

If you succeed in cheating someone, don’t think that the person is a fool. Realize that the person trusted you much more than you deserved. I mean, they’re still foolish, but you’re the bigger fool. Don’t make promises. Promises are worse than lies because you don’t just make them believe, you also make them hope. Don’t give them hope.

Liar liar pants on fire. Nobody likes a cheater, but when given an opportunity to cheat, I dare say most will cheat if they know they will get away with it. At the end of the day, everyone is a sinner, it is just the degree of the sins, some more, some less. The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips. Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my G.P.A.?

Yes.

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362 thoughts on “Cheat Codes”

  3. I don’t mind getting “cheat codes” for some games I have but can’t beat cos they are harder to master than I bargained for. (I’m looking at you, “Sid Meier’s Civilization VI”!)

    I also wouldn’t mind if someone took all of my college-level math classes. I’m decent in most subjects, and I’m dazzlingly brilliant in some. Math…not so much.

    The other kind of cheating…(you know, the one which involves relationships/sex)….That one I can do without.

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      1. I am, according to people that know me well (and that I have not bribed!), a reasonably intelligent fellow. I do exceedingly well in courses I truly love. I pass courses I enjoy (but don’t necessarily love) with decent grades. Even in courses that I don’t like but can grasp, I do all right.

        Math was my kryptonite. I struggled with it in primary (K-6), middle school (what we used to call “junior high school,” which for me was grades 7-9, and high school. How I passed general mathematics in 11th grade is beyond my understanding. I was lucky that 1983 was the last year in which you could graduate from a Florida high school with only two years of math credits.

        In college, it was all smooth sailing until my academic career hit, Titanic-like, the iceberg of nine credit hours’ worth of mathematics. Suffice it to say, it did not end well.

        I don’t bring up my college years with people who have no clue what a learning disability is like, which is most of my peers. When I used to tell them, “Well, I went to college for four years, made the dean’s list constantly, won an honors scholarship, did a Semester in Spain stint as a study-abroad student, and worked on the student newspaper for four years…and dropped out because I couldn’t grasp math,” here’s what they say.

        “Oh, you should go back and finish”

        Well, first off, the requirements for my major (journalism) have changed since I dropped out. So I not only have to take those missing nine credits of math (three classes), but I also would have to take the new requirements to earn an Associate in Arts (AA) degree in journalism.

        I would not mind taking the non-math classes.

        The stress of taking math classes would probably cause me to have panic attacks.

        I wish we both did not have issues with math, Gottfried.

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        1. You really escaped in 83′ but you hit a major bubble later on, that sucks.

          I still can’t understand why we have standardized requirements for certain courses like journalism for instance. What’s the obsession with being ‘great’ at arithmetic?

          True story brother, it’s why I cheat

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          1. Supposedly, we have to take math (or, if you prefer, “maths”) to have “a well-rounded education.”

            The comedic reason: To keep math professors gainfully employed.

            The more cynical reason: To make it harder (and more expensive) to graduate. I think the powers-that-be, be it in the U.S.A., Britain, or anywhere, really, don’t really want a well-educated populace.

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  6. Lovely article and very well said my friend😄
    And as the saying says: “What goes around comes around” so cheaters WILL be cheated on someday.

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  8. Interesting post. “The reward for hard work is more work. So settle for less and stop working. It’s pointless.” …after this the rest is irrelevant. If we only do what we want or, until we can do that, just enough to get us where we’re doing what we want all the time, then we never have to work. We screw everything up with his idea that something ever belonged to us. We work to “get” a man or woman who is not, in fact, ours at all. We work to “get” money that we spend on objects that can’t give us the happiness we seek. We work to “get” status from activity we perform which only benefits and enriches others who despise us. We “get” cheated on because we fail to see what we are and behave accordingly. And we cheat for the same reasons.

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