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Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Registered: February 2003
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... with someone I care deeply for; someone I had lobbied vigorously for months, encouraging him to join me and others of my friends at Yahoo!, for the expressed, and sole, purpose of including him in my "World", and that of the others, because he had lamented since I first became acquainted with him, at that "other" IM Service, he felt left so out and sorely alientated, with few making the journey to that "other" IM Service to speak with him.
To be perfectly honest, because of radical change in both how I view my World, and how I now chose to conduct my affaires, I seldom log-in to "Chat" with anyone, at anytime, anymore at all, other than on account of my "friend", and even with him, our communicating again has only been a very recent phenomenon; an accomodation whereby he and I now employ the device of using the services of "private" and unpublished User I. D.'s for that contact.
What made the aborted conversation, in Chat, so troubling to me is that the other party ridiculed my attempt at humour in my opening salutation, and proceeded to tell me just how misirable he was, and how miserable he is everyday.
Well I'm sorry bud, but that simply will not cut it. As I told you just before I cut you off, my life, everyday, is an intolerable mess - one I do have the power to rectify, and one I am in the process of dealing with - but, you will seldom, if ever at all hear me moan about it, or otherwise denegate a friend's overture of genuine friendship when expressed through the media of open Chat.
I log-in, whether it be for Chat, using an IM Service, or at a Message Board such as this, solely because I want to escape that misery, not become emessed, and embroiled in more. That is not to say, I would ever refuse you, or any other a legitimate request for counsel or assistance, regardless of the subject matter, including your own miserably existence; but, I'm really wanting to hear, and experience if only for a few momments, some of that "fluff" that some here at A Place of Safety have recently cited as having no home here.
As I explained to you, as I was then closing out the conversation, if I cannot try and spread a few "rays of sunshine and happiness" to those around me, when I do on those now extremely rare occasions make an appearance, then why should I bother to appear at all. To you, I say I shall not; not again; at least not for a good long while.
To those, here at A Place of Safety that feel this is not the proper and fitting venue for "fluff" pieces, I say think again; comfort, succor, kindness, caring and compassion come in many forms. Someone's attempt to lighten another's load, even if just a little, and for the briefest flicker in time, is how comfort, succor, kindness, caring and compassion should be defined in all of the World's dictionaries.
Strictly, in my humnble opinion, of course, and subject to rebuttle.
Think good thoughts, litered throughout a field of peace and trees!
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada.
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
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Portrait Of A Friend
I can't give solutions to all your life's problems, doubts or fears...
But I can listen to you, and together we will search for the answers...
I can't change your past with all the heartache and pain; not the future with its untold stories...
But I can be there now when you need me to care...
I can't keep your feet from stumbling...
I can only offer my hand that you may hold it and not fall...
Your joys, triumphs, successes and happiness are not mine...
Yet, I can share in your laughter...
Your decisions in life are not mine to make or to judge...
I can only support you, encourage you and help you when you ask...
I can't prevent you from falling away from friendship, from your values, from me...
I can only pray for you, talk to you and wait for you...
I can't give you boundaries that I have determined for you...
But I can give you the room to change, room to grow, room to be yourself...
I can't keep your heart from breaking and hurting...
But I can cry with you and help you pick up the pieces and put them back in place...
I can't tell you who you are...
I can only love you and be your friend.
{{{hugs}}}
smith J
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I'm not even going to read all that in your post. "Disturbing" chat session indeed, all I did was say I wasn't feeling very happy and you go off the deep end like this, just logging out on me in a huff and then go and make a big-ass post about it here. I don't understand your reasoning at all, I wasn't pissed at you, or pissed at all even (though I got a bit annoyed when you just logged out like that).
I'm like, ???????, right now. You didn't give me a chance to explain before you decided to simply take(*) off and leave me standing there.
-L
* = Was going to use a somewhat more colorful term there before I remembered Timmy's put in a word filter...
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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warren c. e. austin
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 247
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... and I will ask my "friend" to etch it upon glass for me, and proudly hang it above where I sit looking out upon my World both through the computer's screen and the bedroom window.
I will be then able to fondly recall, both your having sent it to me, and his having made it possible for me to remember your having done so.
Thank you so very much for sharing this with me, and with everyone else here at A Place of Safety.
The sentiments which are so eloquently expressed through the author's message embody for me what friendship, and loving, truly should be, and unfortunately so seldom are in the present day climate of vested self-interest and fulfilment.
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
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I've just closed out a most disturbing "Chat" session ... 
Fluff Alert !!! 
Jesus christ Warren... 
Kindly e-mail the text, including the author's name, please ... 
