Well maybe it is.
How many times can someone be booted in the balls by the crushing boot of reality before they become synical or bitter?
(Nirmeth My ignore list is fucking huge. Hint., Thu 25 Nov 2010, 23:21, archived)

Than you miss the opportunity
of nice people coming into your life and that's sad.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Thu 25 Nov 2010, 23:22, archived)

Erm, about 7 years did it for me.
YMMV.
( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Thu 25 Nov 2010, 23:31, archived)