Why is volunteering so complicated?

Open source communities are often very strict in their adherence to basic principles of communication as without such rigorous, yet limited, rules the general goal of the projects would never be achieved since the maintainers would banging their heads together to just understand what others are trying to do, integrating alien code would be out of question. Although this creates a threshold which prevents total noobs from entering the community, it also works as a weed out process to let the most motivated to pass through and join the herd.

Fear of failure.

All my life I have always strived to travel the longest path because it always helped me distinguish myself from everyone else; now that I look back, it has been tremendously beneficial for me as it I always had a much clearer vision than those who opted for a quick escape down the rabbit hole. This is the story of myself, hidden away in the cracks of time, when I was naive and willing to risk it all to reach enlightenment.

What's the priority?

As I was walking down the escalator, I was not very mindful of how I was walking as my habit loop was there to keep under control. I noticed that a young lady clad in heavy black coat, standing at the corner where the escalator meets the corridor which leads to the turnstile to enter the subway platform. I did not mind too much about her reasoning for being there and so I took a left and began walking towards the turnstile. At the very moment a thought popped into my head as I watching the stranger in front of me pulling out his wallet from his back pocket and I was about to do the same.... Why do men keep their wallets in their back pocket? ( and this includes me) This popped up because for split second, I was observation my self from then point of view of the young lady and she must be perplexed by the fact that two very unrelated men, about to enter the subway, follow the exact same routine even though it's not exactly convenient. She must be asking herself, why in the world would you make things more complicated for yourself?

Are you an expert since you took a class?

In our modern era, information is most widely available, compared to any period of human history. (Almost) Anything and everything is just a Google search away. This leads to creation of two distinct and one not so distinct groups of learners:

1. Self taught

2. Formally taught

3. A mix of both at varied degrees.

For any learner, being in group 3 is optimum as they are exposed to both sides of the fence, but from personal experience, I would say most people are part of either group 1 or group 3, as in, they are either personally motivated to go scavenger hunting or rode the tides of school curriculum.