LETTERS TO STRANGERS
...WORDS I HAVE POSTED PUBLICALLY IN VARIOUS PLACES IN RESPONSE TO OTHERS WORDS...
...a friend is a stranger waiting to be met...
Lonely (1st Post)
THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE... (I HOPE...) THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE... (I HOPE...) THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE... (I HOPE...) THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE...
>
Someone Is Here
(eeeek, that last line reminds me too much of the microsoft site lol...
hope you got a chuckle out of it :)
typos are free, so I include lots ;)
LETTERS TO STRANGERS
...WORDS I HAVE POSTED PUBLICALLY IN VARIOUS PLACES IN RESPONSE TO OTHERS WORDS...
...a friend is a stranger waiting to be met...
Lonely (1st Post)
July 26, 1998
>I am so lonely I don't even want to leave work and go home and everyone
>else has even gone home for the day so there's no one here anyway. Oh,
>well, it's going to rain, so I had really better try and get home
>before it starts.
>
Hi ...
hope you didn't get too wet... unless it was a steamy hot summer night
and you don't mind a walk in the rain... personally, when I lived in
Florida (Orlando area for almost 7 years), I loved a good storm... just
had to be careful if lightning was around :)
thank you for reaching out here... I hope to see more posts from you as
I catch up (I'm still almost two weeks behind - only able to check in on
weekends)... this group is one of my on-line homes (or haunts, when I'm
feeling spooky :) ... I don't have time for the other places these days
(ICQ, The Asylum - a Yahoo chat room, playing spades at The Zone, to
name a few... I used to have a lot of free time ;) ...
I moved to Buffalo a couple of months ago and don't know anybody up
here... and I've been working so much I haven't had time to meet
anybody... and unfortunately, theres nobody at my current job who has
interests or education or experience to offer real friendship to me (nice
guys, but just a bunch of drinking buddies, if I wanted some... I
don't)...
but circumstances have forced me into this position and it's lonlier
than I've ever been... and that's on top of a long term nightmare I once
called a elationship that dissolved a long time ago into a long distance
farce and, well, I've been more alone in the physical world in the last
few years than I ever wanted to notice... but I'm noticing now...
it's easy to get depressed about it... so I work on ways to resist the
depression... helping out here - sharing what I can offer and accepting
all the literary comfort and love helps a great deal... I can call more
than a few people in this group my friends and know I can count on them
to listen to me and relate to me in the group or in email - and I even
found connections by phone and in person - though they are back in
Orlando)...
we share the common experience called loneliness for a variety of
reasons and telling each other our stories helps us realize we're not
nearly as alone in our challenging experiences and lifestyles as we
thought... others out here really do understand and that feels much
better than feeling nobody knows, cares, or could possibly understand...
well, I've rambled on as usual and I hope you've found the caring I
tried to place in the words... I hope my words have encouraged you to
reach out again here and share yourself, your story, your writings if
you write, or anything you wish to share... sharing is the key I
think...
when you want to be heard
someone is here
when you want to read words
the words are here
when you just want a hug
a hug is here
when you just want to shrug
you can shrug here
when you feel all alone
you're not alone here
when you're out on your own
you are wanted here
when you feel your fears rise
you'll find comfort here
when there're tears in your eyes
a shoulder is here
come sit for a while
and read or write
when your life is dark
let us be a light
come share yourself here
for we want to know
who you are, what you want
where do you want to go?
well, welcome... I just woke up from a nap and so you get more
energy in this post than others have... hope it's not too much of a
welcome and I hope all the one line "welcomes" I sen others don't seem
like "not enough" now (maybe I'm thinking too much, huh? lam... well,
that's my mind when I'm not burning out... as the Eagles sing - "if I
could only stop my mind..." ...
but then, I don't reallly want to :)
hope to hear from you again...
honest love, ric
IRL (IN REAL LIFE): please understand my life is so busy these days that
my on-line time is limited to weekends, so expect responses from me only
once a week for a while (but I still eagerly look for your responses :)
something to say to me?... write! :) (click reply to author)
when I have time, I'll include my ICQ # again :)
for more info, other paths (most yet to be discovered or created), and
possibly shocking disclosures (or at least more babble) check out
http://www.hotstart.com/wp/hotstartanon.shtml
and for the latest info about me in this life (real? ;) surf over to
http://members.wbs.net/homepages/a/n/o/anonanon.html
* * * * * pages last added to on July 25, 1998 * * * * *
* a friend is a stranger waiting to be met *
* the completion of the journey in this life...
and the start of the purpose of this life...
...is a friend *
* life begins when the sperm finds the egg...
life's purpose begins when we find a friend *
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