RE: Dingbat

[thefraj (imported)]

Everything happens for a reason. Even though we may not understand it's purpose, or see the reasoning at the time - events happen and could not have happened any other way. We may wish to rewind time, and hope to alter the outcome. But it would not be the true outcome that was supposed to happen. It would be a different world and a false future that was tailored to suit us. Our feelings, our needs, our expectations.

I know this previous paragraph to be true, even when my senses witness events around me that test my faith in it. I must say that right now, it has never been tested so strongly.

Like so many Private Messages, Maias was one which had sat in my inbox, unread for almost a month before I replied. I could try saying that so much was going on and I never found the time. Or that - at that time - other things seemed more pressing.

Finally, I replied, and was lucky enough to recieve another PM from her... then, within 24 hours, this brief ray of sunshine would be snatched away forever.

I must admit I don't understand.

Why must this be?

It seems such a senseless loss of someone so valuable. I just don't understand.

And yet I feel selfish to have such feelings for someone I barely knew. Her intelligence shined through even in our brief contact, and her caring nature was there in every sentence.

I'm sorry to say goodbye, Maia.

[wolverine1 (imported)]

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I never met dingbat and now, I never will... I have seen too many people's lives brought to a painful and untimely end as a nurse in incidents such as this... one person's life ended by some pathetic excuse for a human that exists only one level above pond scum !!

I only hope that this bastard suffers incessantly for what has been done to both dingbat and her family! As I hope all other drink drivers will :realpisse

What has happened is tantamount to murder, plain and simple!! I now only pray that the courts treat this as such and give dingbat the justice she deserves...

[Kangan (imported)]

Like so many Private Messages, Maias was one which had sat in my inbox, unread for almost a month before I replied. I could try saying that so much was going on and I never found the time. Or that - at that time - other things seemed more pressing.

Finally, I replied, and was lucky enough to recieve another PM from her... then, within 24 hours, this brief ray of sunshine would be snatched away forever.

I must admit I don't understand.

Why must this be?

It seems such a senseless loss of someone so valuable. I just don't understand.

And yet I feel selfish to have such feelings for someone I barely knew. Her intelligence shined through even in our brief contact, and her caring nature was there in every sentence.

I'm sorry to say goodbye, Maia.

I, too, had a similar experience with Maia via pm's. One moment she was alive and well -- and the next -- BAM! -- and she was gone forever.

"Life" can be very unforgiving. There is no "good" or "bad" in the Universe -- only random events. It is only our intellect that makes things "good" or "bad", but I must admit that knowing that does not ease my pain.

I just lost my mother less than one month ago. Maia's passing was even more tragic for me, since I was already grieving. I could relate to her situation with her parents and their dementia problems too.

All you can do is just move on and live each day as if it might be your last.

[Beau Geste (imported)]

I could tell from Dingbat's (Maia's) posts that she was a sensitive and intelligent person. I will miss reading them, more so because it was clear that she had had a difficult time being accepted as herself, and she seemed to have found a home on this archive.

Any time that something like this happens, I tend to remember things I thought of saying, and didn't, when I read the person's posts, or spoke with them. And now, of course, there is no way to communicate what I thought. I guess, in a way, death must be taken as a reminder of the importance of letting people know, at the time, what you think and feel. You may not get another chance.

[scottTx (imported)]

My faith is I am going to a better place from this transitority life...am promised a better place for an interinity. Across a bridge can see a beautiful pasture with animals playing....how many of my pets will come greet me when the time comes....we don't know...but what is more sure than leaving this earth....and more beautiful to be with God!

[Paolo]

Watch the movie "What Dreams May Come" with Robin Williams. Scott's post just reminded me of it.