Well said Saydrah. I enjoyed reading your response and tend to agree with most all you wrote. I have a really hard time tolerating self-pity of this sort.Human beings have evolved over thousands of years to tend to hope for something greater when experiencing something less than satisfactory. The quest for enlightenment and the challenge of making do simply with the gift of being alive is probably older than our species. Neanderthals probably sat around the fire asking if they were really a great hunter, or if wife just told them so to make them get out of cave and hunt more.
I should say that I don't really blame the blogger for being self-pitying. He's going through something that is also just part of being human, and if anyone is at fault for what a fool he looks like, it's Kotaku for publishing this twaddle. It's as if they're giving an audience to a child's complaints about puberty, except that it might actually be more interesting if a child of ten or eleven could write well enough and use an adult vocabulary to explain why they're upset about feeling hormonal and turning into a mini-man or mini-woman instead of a cute little boy or girl.