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Nina
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I've only been here for a short time and maybe I shouldn't be jumping in at this end of the pool just yet...but here goes anyway.
I just read a locked thread that really angered me and I don't anger easily. I'm about as mellow as you can get without being in a coma.. The thread was about how many of the folks in here just need to exercise and change their clothes and basically, "get with the program" a program society invented....I have a completely different take.
I'm one of those folks who dresses ok and exercises everyday. I'm also married, a mom and employed with hobbies and friends and you know what? My life and marriage took a turn for the worse and all my well exercised friends, dancing to societies tunes were ALL to involved sorting out their own messes to give a rats *** about me. I don't blame them, they have some really rough issues going on, I'm still trying to be supportive to them while sorting out my own saddness and confussion.
I came HERE and more than a few very kind and giving folks shared their patience, humor, advice and soft words of just plain old kindness, in an effort to help me sort out my issues. It helped a LOT! It is continuing to help and will for a long time.
No one is bullet-proof from issues. I don't care how you dress, how much you exercise, how much money you have or any other little prized tactics a person has for coping or maybe just for pretending they're above it all. NO ONE really is. WE ALL FALL from time to time and sometimes the kindness of strangers is what picks us back up.
I have done a lot more reading in here then posting and I see a lot of folks who are battling very serious conditions and some more who are painfully shy and yes, a few who seem to hate society in general...
EVERYONE of you, that has touched my life and heart, with your words, are just as strong and sometimes much stronger than all the exercised and well-dressed crowd. Sure some folks need to post about their issues more than once and if they are still posting the same things 2 more years from now, they are still trying, through reaching out, to find a hand hold to pull themselves through their issues.
I admire that.
Never give up and NEVER believe for one moment that all the exercised and well dressed, "marcher's to societies tune," are doing all that well. They aren't. The best we can do for each other is reach out and care. No one benefits from simplistic answers and down right bragging.
No matter how good, some think their world is, it's only a second away from a crash. Take care of the kind strangers you meet, the day may come when they're the ones who pull you up when you've fallen.
Vanilla just told me on another thread to, "set my heart free" Those words inspired me to voice this.
Now watch me get in trouble...:club:
Thanks again to all who've listened and offered words of kindness and help.
I just read a locked thread that really angered me and I don't anger easily. I'm about as mellow as you can get without being in a coma.. The thread was about how many of the folks in here just need to exercise and change their clothes and basically, "get with the program" a program society invented....I have a completely different take.
I'm one of those folks who dresses ok and exercises everyday. I'm also married, a mom and employed with hobbies and friends and you know what? My life and marriage took a turn for the worse and all my well exercised friends, dancing to societies tunes were ALL to involved sorting out their own messes to give a rats *** about me. I don't blame them, they have some really rough issues going on, I'm still trying to be supportive to them while sorting out my own saddness and confussion.
I came HERE and more than a few very kind and giving folks shared their patience, humor, advice and soft words of just plain old kindness, in an effort to help me sort out my issues. It helped a LOT! It is continuing to help and will for a long time.
No one is bullet-proof from issues. I don't care how you dress, how much you exercise, how much money you have or any other little prized tactics a person has for coping or maybe just for pretending they're above it all. NO ONE really is. WE ALL FALL from time to time and sometimes the kindness of strangers is what picks us back up.
I have done a lot more reading in here then posting and I see a lot of folks who are battling very serious conditions and some more who are painfully shy and yes, a few who seem to hate society in general...
EVERYONE of you, that has touched my life and heart, with your words, are just as strong and sometimes much stronger than all the exercised and well-dressed crowd. Sure some folks need to post about their issues more than once and if they are still posting the same things 2 more years from now, they are still trying, through reaching out, to find a hand hold to pull themselves through their issues.
I admire that.
Never give up and NEVER believe for one moment that all the exercised and well dressed, "marcher's to societies tune," are doing all that well. They aren't. The best we can do for each other is reach out and care. No one benefits from simplistic answers and down right bragging.
No matter how good, some think their world is, it's only a second away from a crash. Take care of the kind strangers you meet, the day may come when they're the ones who pull you up when you've fallen.
Vanilla just told me on another thread to, "set my heart free" Those words inspired me to voice this.
Now watch me get in trouble...:club:
Thanks again to all who've listened and offered words of kindness and help.
