jtudor
Xm 60's On 6 Freak
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Morganton, NC | reply to Pretorious
Re: [FYI] My absence over the past year...
My friend, it just seems to get deeper and deeper, our prayers will continue to be with you.
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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.
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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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rockhounds_5
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Lewisville, TX
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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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Pretorious
Theres more behind the pic than the wall
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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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DownTheShore
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Beautiful NJ
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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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Chuck22
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Salt Lake City, UT
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| 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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