Chuck22
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Re: [FYI] My absence over the past year...
said by DownTheShore  :May I just add, ask questions about your family history while your elders are still around (and I'm just referring to anyone older than you by "elder"). Sit down with them and have a good gossip. All those "whatever happened to Great-aunt Whatever", "what was Great-grandma Penelope's maiden name", "what did you do in the war Daddy" and "where did Great-grandpa So-and-So come from" type of questions. Because once the people who actually know the answer to those questions are gone, so usually is the information. Then you find yourself to be a family elder but you don't have the answers to any of those questions.  So true. Unfortunately, far too often I now find myself in the latter situation you noted.
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DownTheShore
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Ditto that.
May I just add, ask questions about your family history while your elders are still around (and I'm just referring to anyone older than you by "elder"). Sit down with them and have a good gossip. All those "whatever happened to Great-aunt Whatever", "what was Great-grandma Penelope's maiden name", "what did you do in the war Daddy" and "where did Great-grandpa So-and-So come from" type of questions. Because once the people who actually know the answer to those questions are gone, so usually is the information. Then you find yourself to be a family elder but you don't have the answers to any of those questions.
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Pretorious
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You know....it's amazing it takes something like this to sometimes open our eyes and see our friends and loved ones from a different perspective and light that we've never REALLY seen them from before. Not only in each of our real daily lifestyles but here in the digital world just as well. We seem to get into a routine of thinking everyday and the days that follow will be the same, yet we know in the back of our minds that someday EVERYTHING will change, then when it does, you realize how blind you've been an how you have taken it all for granted for such a long time, and some such as myself realizes how many years I've been that way. So if I may share just a few words of advice, and I hope you'll take them to heart because someday your life really will change too, take just a few minutes of each day when your day has even a slightest slow down in it, look around you at all the nice things in your life, especially the people close to you and realize it's not always going to be like this, let them know ASAP how you feel about them, hug them like it's the last time you'll ever get the chance every time you can and tell them and make it clear to them how you feel. It's as easy as taking a picture, and doesn't take much more time than that but it will remain in your friends and loved ones minds and hearts for a lifetime, just like a picture.
Thank you ALL once again for the kind words, thoughts and inspiration to continue on, although life will never be the same my sights are set on doing just that, and I'm definitely going to change MY lifestyle to fit my own advice above and indeed already have because if anyone has had enough and been blinded for this long it's been me, it's a shame it takes incidents like this to make us truly see and appreciate what we really have and take the time to show it instead of taking it for granted everyday, take it from someone who knows, you don't miss them until they are GONE! And when they go (and they will) they won't be back...EVER!!
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rockhounds_5
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I'm sorry for your losses. I've not been in the forum that much and just now found this.
I lost a very good friend of mine last year and know the pain of which you speak. We try to find meaning after friends pass, and it is hard.
I've found that with time, the pain goes slowly, but never the memory. This is all I have of my friend and I will cherish to the end of my days.
Here's hoping that your pain will pass quickly, but the memories stay forever. |
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TJ19971
Blues fan with a camera
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Sioux Falls, SD | reply to Pretorious
I am deeply sorry to hear of this. What can I say other than you and your family & friends are in my thoughts and prayers.
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richdelb
Go Hawks Go
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Algonquin, IL | reply to Pretorious
Prayers again. Both for you, kind sir, and for our troubled and confusing world.
Peace to all. |
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jtudor
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Morganton, NC | reply to Pretorious
My friend, it just seems to get deeper and deeper, our prayers will continue to be with you.
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Jodokast96
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You know you're always in our thoughts, but let the boy's family know they are as well. |
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DownTheShore
Maddie Knows Poopie
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Beautiful NJ
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So very sorry to hear that even more has happened. My prayers are with all of you. |
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drew
Reformation
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Port Orchard, WA
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I'm so sorry!
My prayers are with your and your friends. |
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gugarci
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Bergen Co | reply to Pretorious
Sorry to hear that. That's way too much for one person to have to endure in a short period of time. Hang in there. |
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brak22
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I am so very sorry. If you need anything at all email or call me. |
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Pistolpete
Why is every day a C.R.A.F.T .day
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Words fail me,all I will say is that we are all here for you.No one deserves so much heartache.
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Pretorious
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Thank you ALL once again for your kind words, thoughts and prayers, emails and IM's, I can't began to display how much it means and has helped. I'm not posting this in attempts to gain attention or pity, but just so you know because yet again I'll be absent for a few days, I've lost yet another friend today, a very close young man 13 years old, very dear to me and my family, and the grandson of one of my other closer friends that passed included in the total number mentioned earlier in this thread, my young friend and his family were camping, he took what was supposed to be a 5 minute ride on an ATV inwhich he was a very experienced rider, when he didn't return after almost 30 minutes we went looking for him, the embankment in one area of the road had gave away and he rolled for over 250 feet, he live until we got him to the hospital and passed away a few hours later. Strange that probably more than 100 atvs past the area just today alone and it picked THAT particular time to collapse. Just so you know if I'm not around much for next few days/weeks I'm leaving for a trip after the funeral. Quite honestly and bluntly, I've had enough of this fucking shit for one lifetime and just need some time now to sort all this shit out and look for some kind of closure for all this assuming such a thing even exists!!!! Quite frankly, I've had more than well over enough of this and dealing with is has became completely off the charts when compared to anything and everything I've ever experienced in my lifetime. I just hope to GOD we can all overcome it once again and THIS TIME will be the last because this has became FAR beyond what I would normally refer to as a bit much!
Mods can delete this if they see it not fit, I'm just not in a very good mood right now and probably should have waited until a better time before posting it, but honestly better times doesn't seem to be something that hangs around me for very long at a time. I'll be back eventually, thats a sure bet, but right now I just need to go somewhere and deal with all this BS.
Again, thank you all so much for all the nice comments and thoughts, that helps so much more than I can tell you right now.
Be CAREFUL my friends in what you do, we (NONE of us) have any guarantee of tomorrow, or of our next breath for that matter. 
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Wayne GphFX
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We have all been there I have seen many people in life come in go in good times and bad and death. I wish you peace and comfort knowing you have a few good souls that care.
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NoelC
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Hang in there. What gets worse gets better. It is the way of the world.
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mbi777
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Orlando, FL
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So good to have you back again! I had lost my best friend two years ago to a sudden unpredictable death. I just count myself fortunate every day and never took for granted, that I had a friend like him. Memories will live on, and you can only get stronger by them. |
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aprilfooish
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Spencer, TN | reply to Pretorious
Glad that you are back. awaiting new pictures and comments for sure  |
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CCat
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Wonderland
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Sorry to hear about the tragic turn of events.
I'm not a photographer but I do enjoy your photographs and I'm looking forward to more of your work.
Besides I'm running low on backgrounds
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Judd
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Hang in there buddy! Photography can be an incredible balm...and we look forward to seeing you more active. Take it easy!
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