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Thu 2 Aug, 2007 07:26 pm
It's funny how you can be a part of an online community, and though things are mostly fun and games, and you never really EXAMINED interactions on a personal level, how much you can really feel in your heart for someone that you never met in person. I know you guys know what I mean.
I felt it twice today, several times for 1 person. Really, I wasn't aware how much I cared about this person, but it's kinda cool, that I can be so open to my own feelings. Having friends, virtual ones I mean, is so cool.
I had several more moments of silence for Him. Well, you most of you know who I'm talking about. I went to his site today and they still have the memorial message up, with the instructions on where they wanted donations sent to, in lieu of sympathy cards and such. I cried (again) (away from my family though) such a loss of spirit.
I'm glad I know you guys (well, most of you ) :wink:
I know I'm glad I know you.
and I know what you mean.
the first big online loss was a huge shock to me. I had no idea I could care so much about 'virtual' people. They're really real, and it communicates somehow.
it's true ehbeth, and i never considered it once before. I mean, how really involved you become with your peers online when you're 'together' so much.
Sappy or not, I think that over time a goodly percentage of long time posters speak fairly frankly at one time or another, sometimes more freely than in so-called real life. Sometimes not, of course.
We've had some big personal losses here, whether or not we'd met the person in real life.
It is a community, however ...... odd, and you're part of it, Onyx.
Onyx, I do indeed know what you mean. It's always shocking to realize how much this community means to me as a whole and as individuals.
How neat. Everybody here is at least a virtual friend.
I like sappy. In fact, I tend to be sappy most of the time :wink:
Some of my a2k friends are closer to me than most people I know offline. There are just a few persons posting here, whom I don't really like, and they are no problem, ultimately. I would love to make a few of the meetings.
Bunch of us want to meet you too, EdgarB.
How about a sappy tappy dance?
I with all you guys. It amazes me to know how many true friends I have right here, who I've never even met.
Ony, I missed you and worried when you were gone for a while. I tend to vanish for bits when my time gets consumed as well, but I never stop thinking about you all. Well, most of you :-)
You guys are my friends. I really don't have any friends where I live and people think I have no friends and I'm sure they would be quite surprised to know how many I have just here on A2K!
You guys are my family and I'm proud to be a part of this community :-D
(((((((((Group Hug))))))))))
People look at me funny, though, when I tell them stuff me and my friends on A2K have talked about.
They're like "what the hell is an A2K"?
This whole thread has made me juicy with joy. Really, I have to stop reading because various fluids may start secreting from me at any moment.....
My business partner reacted with genuine disgust the few times I mentioned my online friends at a2k (tongue to palate in a semi-loud 'tcccccch' sound.... ok, I exaggerate, in a virtual tcccccch sound) at the same time she was apparently envious of my real life friendships.
Stray Cat wrote:This whole thread has made me juicy with joy. Really, I have to stop reading because various fluids may start secreting from me at any moment.....
That sounds like something Kicky would say
I tried to edit, that was meaner than I meant. She did have amazement about my friend support system, but envy would be the wrong word. The
tccccccccch was sheer incomprehension re an online place like this.
I hear ya, Osso. That's exactly what I get from people. They're like "yeah, ok", with that confused look pasted on their face
Montana, I have to go wring myself out now.....
Montana wrote:Stray Cat wrote:This whole thread has made me juicy with joy. Really, I have to stop reading because various fluids may start secreting from me at any moment.....
That sounds like something Kicky would say
Yeah, but he would have inserted a "boner" or "weiner" or even "love-bone" in there somehow!
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