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A challenge for you  [message #59189] Wed, 21 October 2009 12:37 Go to previous message
timmy

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This forum is created by us, in part for us, and in greater part for the person who comes here to learn, to read, to see by example that it is possible to survive the awful self inflicted prison of his mind.

We, here, have been our own therapists, largely. We have survived by our own efforts, applied well or applied poorly. But we have survived.

The very fact that we have been through our own deepest pits of despair and come out the other side, that fact is evidence to these boys and the adults they become, and to a smaller number of girls, that survival is possible.

We, you and I, those who post here, have survived.

So what am I blethering on about.

This is my challenge to you.

Put something of yourself on the line here. Tell us about your blackest despair and how you came through it. Dare to make a total arse of yourself by revealing this to yourself, to us, and to the kids who need to see that they are not alone.

Think to yourself (oddly there is no-one else to think to) "What child have I helped today? What adult that the child became have I helped?"

No-one will ever thank you for doing it. You won't even know you've helped someone. But one kid may choose to live because of something you say. And that kid may help a couple of other kids.

Do it now, before you think too hard about it!

[Updated on: Wed, 21 October 2009 12:43]



Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
 
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