Dear Inky:
There are 297 pages of communications on this forum, starting 2 years and seven months ago. If you click on page 297 and go backward you will see that hundreds of people started threads and commented on threads since that time. You will see hundreds of usernames coming and going. Sometime along the way, you, Inky started commented and I believe you are the most lasting participant in this forum. Where did ALL the OTHERS go? Where are they?
If a couple of people indeed left the forum as a result of this thread, this is only the NORM. Everyone but (as far as I know) YOU left the forum as a result of one thing or another.
So if you look at the wider perspective, at the history of this forum you will see, that there is nothing at all unusual here. People have been leaving all along the way. Including participants who posted many, many times. All have left, but (thankfully)- you.
Some have left to come back with a different username.
Again, the reference to “Real life” – by you too, Inky. This is what I say- again: THIS IS real life. Check it out, Inky- pinch yourself, you are a real person. Ask someone else if they too see the screen and my post here, if they see it too, it is probably real, don’t you think? In actuality, many are MORE real here than outside this forum because here, if someone doesn’t like my post, I don’t have to worry about him or her turning on the music real loud all night. And nobody here is paying my bills. So often, MORE real.
As far as your military comment, suggesting that the alliance between me and Jack is not appropriate on this forum, I disagree. Again, for me, this is real life so there are real emotions and real alliances. Even if Jack himself withdraws because of the negative criticism, it would still be real, only no longer ongoing.
As far as I know I am not breaking the stated rules of this forum. Ultimately it is up to the owner of website, up to the financial considerations of the owner (and advertisers) to decide whether to remove me or anyone else from the forum. If I am removed, I will be removed (if I leave voluntarily I will say goodbye by posting my last thread titled GOODBYE, otherwise it means I was removed and did not have the opportunity to say my goodbye).
What it comes down for me is why are we here? Why am I here? I am here not so to “have something to do” – not so to vent. Not so to “have company”- I am here on my journey of healing, awakening, evolving. This journey requires authenticity, real emotions. And so, I am here. The ongoing interactions have served me well.
And lastly, you suggested that “maybe we all should take a sabbatical”- you may, Inky. I am here to stay for as long as it is working for me AND for as long as I keep getting as many positive feedbacks from other participants as I have been getting.
This healing journey I am on, many start it, few keep going and going and going. I keep going.
anita
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Though I run this site, it is not mine. It's ours. It's not about me. It's about us. Your stories and your wisdom are just as meaningful as mine. 