NFrameFred
Member
I enjoy reading a lot of the posts on the forum and interacting with (most 
) of the active participants . . . I enjoy the 'escape' of just "shooting the bull" about whatever grabs my interest that's being discussed that day.
But lately it seems we've had a flurry of losses and troubles to talk about. It's inevitable that people want to share some of the more difficult things we go through as life delivers the sad, the bad, and the frustrating, and given the state of the lack of face to face opportunities in social settings like it or not, this 'community' fills a niche.
I'll make a selfish confession in that I like to come here to be amused, educated, and conversational, and hopefully offer positive things for the most part. A lot of us come to feel as if we know each other in a friendly sense even if we never meet or speak face to face. A lot of us are older here and I guess that has something to do with all this and the social interaction.
Said all that to express the sentiment that it saddens and frustrates me to read of the personal tragedies, losses, and problems our acquaintances here go through. These things come to all of us - it's just 'life' . . . but . . . A simple post of condolences, expressions of support in thoughts and prayers for what people go through seems so inadequate at times though there may be little else we can do. It tears at me to see some of those posts, having been there myself many times with the sorrow and sympathy I feel for their circumstances. As impotent as it feels offering comforting sentiments is sometimes all we can do.
Those of us that look to eternal things know that one day these sorrows will be looked back upon as "light afflictions" . . . doesn't make it easier to bear in the moment at hand. I've rattled on here just to say . . . just wish there was something more I could say or do to help the hurting.
) of the active participants . . . I enjoy the 'escape' of just "shooting the bull" about whatever grabs my interest that's being discussed that day.But lately it seems we've had a flurry of losses and troubles to talk about. It's inevitable that people want to share some of the more difficult things we go through as life delivers the sad, the bad, and the frustrating, and given the state of the lack of face to face opportunities in social settings like it or not, this 'community' fills a niche.
I'll make a selfish confession in that I like to come here to be amused, educated, and conversational, and hopefully offer positive things for the most part. A lot of us come to feel as if we know each other in a friendly sense even if we never meet or speak face to face. A lot of us are older here and I guess that has something to do with all this and the social interaction.
Said all that to express the sentiment that it saddens and frustrates me to read of the personal tragedies, losses, and problems our acquaintances here go through. These things come to all of us - it's just 'life' . . . but . . . A simple post of condolences, expressions of support in thoughts and prayers for what people go through seems so inadequate at times though there may be little else we can do. It tears at me to see some of those posts, having been there myself many times with the sorrow and sympathy I feel for their circumstances. As impotent as it feels offering comforting sentiments is sometimes all we can do.
Those of us that look to eternal things know that one day these sorrows will be looked back upon as "light afflictions" . . . doesn't make it easier to bear in the moment at hand. I've rattled on here just to say . . . just wish there was something more I could say or do to help the hurting.
