Dear White Feather,
I think that your poem,
I am really starting to worry, really struck a cord on this board. I know for me it certainly has. In it you have included all the reasons why people come here and why we have such a desperate need to connect and be validated. I call it a poem because it says so much in so few words yet captured one aspect of our group essence so eloquently; the part beneath the words that many of us write that cuts to the core of what we want from each other. I cried when you wrote, “Maybe since I have no phone calls anymore, I am already dead and did not notice it,” because I have voiced this throughout the years when I’ve not connected with my sons when I longed to
and laughed as you noted, “Maybe I should stop talking to myself”
, or “Maybe I made all this up and ended up being so desperate that I am seeking for crazy solutions”, I really like that one and I think a lot of us can relate to it
. This board is one way to get that validation if you’re curious enough to trust in your imagination. IMO you show it in this creative poem and in your courage to be persistent by coming to the main form with your request to partner. I hope that this works out for you because I think that you are a person whom I would trust to give the story straight and simple and also because this partnering thing is our future way of operating for retrievals.
Bottom line is that I cannot promise you that you won’t be attacked for saying the “wrong” thing
, for example, by some posters but I can promise that with many others you will get wonderful tips on getting to know the very ones who love you unconditionally in a way that most humans cannot.
Keep up the good work and glad you’re hanging in here.
Jean
P.S. I printed out your poem to remind me of some of my fears and negativity which sometimes limits me. Thanks. J