spankey2 (imported) wrote: Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:56 am
Hello to everyone and thank you for all the replies. I would like to make a few comments about the replys I got. Some where compassionate and some were not. some understood what I was saying and some did not. Some of us try each day to enlarge our scope on the world and some do not. There are many paradoxes here. If we are asking for help, love, consideration, acceptance from each other and from the world. It is best to give the same to each other and to the world. spankey2
Just like in the real world ! Most people are mainly interested in me, myself, and I (apparently unlike Ted Kennedy).
E-mail, bulletin boards, and chat rooms have an inherent flaw.
It is impossible to express real human compassion, although emotions such as hate and negativity come through loud and clear.
A word, a phrase, to one may seem fully comprehensible and meaningful to some, but to others it may seem shallow, empty, perhaps hostile.
If anyone is looking for EVERYONE to be caring, loving, compassionate, with empathy, they will need to find another planet on which to live for everone is not like that. "Thick skin" is needed to survive in this world.
On the EA you have an opportunity to be totally open and honest about who you are, your background, thoughts, feelings, wants, desires (but don't self-incriminate yourself). You will find people who can emphatisize, and people who have never walked in your shoes and can't relate to your experiences. And you may find ideas, opinions, comments that can help you look at life in a new way. If you get a reply you don't like, ignore it; someone else's life isn't your life, your points of reference are different.
Life on the EA, like life in general, is an adventure.
I owe these quotes to the person who wrote them; as soon as I find the book, title, and author I will give them credit:
"An adventure is any intentional experience that substantially alters our perspective long enough to see things that we have never before seen, and to see familar things in ways we have never before seen them."
"Real adventure is an inside job"
"There is but one single certainty in life: Uncertainty"
"Happiness is best seen out of the corner of our eye. Pursued directly as a primary goal happiness only becomes a source of frustration. Yet it is likely to blossom fully in our lives as a by product of a life of service. After some exploration we learn that our greatest joy comes not from self-seeking, but in serving others."
"If it seems to you that others are going about and living their lives too slowly, it might be because you are going about and living your life too fast."
