So recently, I had an experience that was all too real. I encountered what I perceived as a bit of a jealous or “snippy” comment from someone working with another paranormal team. They didn’t like the age of our group, they didn’t like the number of investigations we had posted on the web. They felt like for all the media attention we have recieved, that we didn’t deserve it in their eyes. So my question is this: why did this person care? Are they jealous they don’t have the attention? Do they not see that anytime a paranormal team gets some notice that the awareness about the paranormal groups as a whole goes up even more locally? Don’t they get it that they get benefit from it too? I’m not sure why people act like that.
Yes, IKOPS is less than a year old as a group. However, some of the members have solid experience before joining IKOPS, and the newer members are getting good experience. As for the number of investigations, I guess it never occurred to anyone that we might not post everything? Maybe we’re getting notariety in our region because we do QUALITY investigations, not a quantity of them. Maybe we’re just a better group than they are. I’m not saying we are or aren’t, but there could be many reasons why IKOPS is where it is, and other teams are not. Since I’m not in those other teams, I’m not qualified to say what their issues are.
All I know is that as a team, IKOPS does the very best we can to offer a well rounded investigation and we present the evidence without fanfare. We’ve offered to include other teams in our investigations and have in fact collaborated on a few projects with other teams. We want to share and learn from others as well.
So if you’re a member of a paranormal investigation team, lighten up. All this stuff doesn’t have to be so rigid and stiff. Conduct a solid investigation, let the facts speak for themselves, and enjoy all the new people (past and present) that you get to meet!
October 9th, 2009 at 2:40 pm See what I mean about all the back biting and sniping?