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Originally Posted by Titus2woman
I dunno... I had someone on another forum knock this one and I remembered how kind everyone was when my mother died... and how many people genuinely tried to help me as I struggled with religious issues... I mean some poked fun and some were nasty... but over all many really tried to be helpful.
I think about how we all said Cindy made a difference in our lives by being here... then some turn around and say it's a waste of time... Can it be both ways, really?
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Even though I haven't been a regular poster here in about 4 years, there was a time when this forum (and the 2 previous incarnations) had a tremendous impact on my life. In 2003, I moved (with my ex-husband) 900 miles away from all my friends and family, and the only place I had ever known. I have never felt so lonely and isolated in my life, and it didn't help that I was extremely unhappily married. For many years, the people that I knew from these forums, were the only people that I really had to talk to. And over the years I really bared my soul.
And they helped me through some of the most difficult times in my life, they prayed for me, they reached out to me, they blessed me during hard times with gifts. And even though we are now on very different ends of the spiritual spectrum, and things can't necessarily ever be the same as they once were, I haven't forgotten what these forums once meant to me.
There are many times that I've come here, (usually because an old thread is bumped and I get email notification), but didn't post because most of the topics here, are so far removed from the things that I think about it my daily life. And I think that the few that remember me from back then, are probably sad because I'm so different from who I used to be. (and that's ok, because on some level I'm probably sad because so many things haven't changed).
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