I Feel Your Soul -- News Addiction Recovery Forum

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2] ]

Subject: I Feel Your Soul

Author:
WN

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 19:13:44 12/29/01 Sat
In reply to: S 's message, "April 19, 1995" on 18:21:12 12/29/01 Sat

There is nothing wrong with remembering pain as long as you are aware that it must sometime be gotten over. Sadness lasts forever in some cases. If you are unable to progress past it and constantly live it, you will never be happy. Live in love. Take whatever is offered, and then some...always give all.

K

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[> Subject: Re: April 19, 1995

Author:
S
[ Edit | View ]

Date Posted: 19:45:40 12/29/01 Sat

My point in posting this was not to seek consolation so much as to say that I have been consoled by interacting with this group through a difficult time.

And I posted it here because I don't consider this to be a public forum full of strangers. We've all posted personal things. We've all given and received personal support for one thing or another. I consider myself to be among friends here.

And I thought about the Oklahoma story because I had been watching reports about WTC victims and thinking about to what degree the country was still suffering. To me OKC is all part of the same story. I thought that if people were interested in my memory of what happened there, they would read this. If they weren't, they would skip it. I certainly didn't intend for anyone to read it under pressure.

I'm not feeling sorry for myself, and I'm not asking you to feel sorry for me. The conversation I described with my doctor took place in the immediate aftermath of Sept 11. The last conversation went more like "glad things are going so much better for you."

I'm online tonight because I have work to do. I'm thinking about things like this and posting things like this because 1) the things I read while I'm working are very personal and thought-provoking; 2) I have lulls while I'm waiting for the computer to finish something for me.

If you came here to have a discussion with us, I'll be happy to discuss most anything. If you just came here to tell us you don't approve of us, why bother?

There is no required attendance here. And since most of the people hanging around on a regular basis are not

1) Judgemental
2) Uptight
3) Accusatory

please feel free to bite me if you don't appreciate what I have to say.

I hope you find a lot of good friends out there. I hope you have a lot of nice things to wear.

My regards,

Sharon