Fantastic discovery!! the empty post.
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From: stuffed in a box
I was typing something maybe much more meaningful here, brant, but a little voice inside my head asked, why are you taking it so seriously? Whatever is or isn't happening here and for whatever reason, shouldn't bring sadness. I only post a thread in here when I see it's active, sometimes I don't want to keep up with the vB (my keyboard skills start to diminish when using keys that don't have letters on them....).... It was fun when people were talking out loud and then we bent alex all out of shape cuz he was still posting invisibly.... but I don't think people check it as much.... I see a lot of conversations stop prematurely in this thread. Could be the nature of the beast.
Don't be sad. Somebody once said (I can't remember who, or verbatim how it goes, something like) "words are very important, but if we take them TOO seriously, we destroy their very meaning" Perhaps the same is true for the corner. I know the corner is a staple in my life now, and when people are gone like mom and james are now, and it's quiet, I feel lonely. But when I think the corner should be a certain way, I'm almost always let down. But then I realize that it isn't about what a post is or isn't, to me it's about the people and how they respong. Sometimes a post is like a seed and people and conversations just grow out of it naturally....
I have some free time right now, sorry if I sound corny. Perhaps this is simply a "symptom" or a physical manifestation of something deeper as you say......... maybe it's like this thread itself, invisible but right in front of your face......
Or maybe I'm a bozo...... who knows...... Have a good weekend brant, sometimes we need a vacation even from things that aren't "work", and maybe spending time with yourself and not the corner is just what you need. Hope you come back refreshed.
Don't be sad. Somebody once said (I can't remember who, or verbatim how it goes, something like) "words are very important, but if we take them TOO seriously, we destroy their very meaning" Perhaps the same is true for the corner. I know the corner is a staple in my life now, and when people are gone like mom and james are now, and it's quiet, I feel lonely. But when I think the corner should be a certain way, I'm almost always let down. But then I realize that it isn't about what a post is or isn't, to me it's about the people and how they respong. Sometimes a post is like a seed and people and conversations just grow out of it naturally....
I have some free time right now, sorry if I sound corny. Perhaps this is simply a "symptom" or a physical manifestation of something deeper as you say......... maybe it's like this thread itself, invisible but right in front of your face......
Or maybe I'm a bozo...... who knows...... Have a good weekend brant, sometimes we need a vacation even from things that aren't "work", and maybe spending time with yourself and not the corner is just what you need. Hope you come back refreshed.
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Funny you should mention taking it so seriously, wicky (what IS your real name, anyway?), but I was wondering the same thing about myself as I was writing that.
The short answer is...I don't know. I just know that I HAVE been taking it too seriously.
After all, it's just the web. This isn't real. What I say here doesn't matter as much as in the real world. Or does it?
Maybe I'm taking it so seriously because, unlike in the past where my workplace was where most of my friendships grew, I don't HAVE an office so the people that I interact with on this site and others become more a part of my life. Maybe it's because I believe that anytime I open my mouth, either in the real world or online or an interview or wherever, that the person spouting words on my behalf had BETTER be the real me.
I don't act on this board appreciably differently than I would in my typical interactions with people I know right here where I live.
I laugh at the same things...cry at the same things...get annoyed by the same things...
It's just the way I am, I guess.
That said, I am not hoping that anyone will conform to my way of thinking or act differently on my behalf. I guess I'm not really looking for answers from anyone. I just needed a forum to spout this crap that's in my head and since the Corner is pretty much my current batch of friends in my life...I chose here to spout.
Thanks for letting me ramble. I'll stop now. :grin:
The short answer is...I don't know. I just know that I HAVE been taking it too seriously.
After all, it's just the web. This isn't real. What I say here doesn't matter as much as in the real world. Or does it?
Maybe I'm taking it so seriously because, unlike in the past where my workplace was where most of my friendships grew, I don't HAVE an office so the people that I interact with on this site and others become more a part of my life. Maybe it's because I believe that anytime I open my mouth, either in the real world or online or an interview or wherever, that the person spouting words on my behalf had BETTER be the real me.
I don't act on this board appreciably differently than I would in my typical interactions with people I know right here where I live.
I laugh at the same things...cry at the same things...get annoyed by the same things...
It's just the way I am, I guess.
That said, I am not hoping that anyone will conform to my way of thinking or act differently on my behalf. I guess I'm not really looking for answers from anyone. I just needed a forum to spout this crap that's in my head and since the Corner is pretty much my current batch of friends in my life...I chose here to spout.
Thanks for letting me ramble. I'll stop now. :grin:
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From: stuffed in a box
no problemo, brant. Ramble anytime you need. Nobody can see you after all :D I think there's a couple of us who can relate, and feel the corner has become or is becoming a repository of friends..... I have to remind myself, not everyone checks the corner every 5 minutes like I do. I have many real life friends, not too many, just enough good ones to matter, but many of the folk in here I like enough to interact with daily.....at least on the internet hahaha
