Posted by madwand on October 5, 2003, at 21:29:52
In reply to Re: apologies » Tabitha, posted by galkeepinon on October 5, 2003, at 19:35:45
Kristen,
I just want to reiterate my privately-expressed support for you and for your staying here. To my observation, "Galkeepinon" has contributed enormously to this board and the people here, and if "Krissy" made a wrong decision at one point, it appears to have stemmed from a lot of pain rather than malice.
I hope that someday you will be able feel in your heart what I believe you know in your mind -- that people really *do* care.
To those who (perhaps out of their own hurt), are having trouble forgiving, let me propose a reframe. Consider what was going through your minds was back when the infamous note appeared and consider the progression of that state of mind had it turned out to be true. Judging from past events I suspect it would have been one of sadness and loss.
Now flip back to the "real sequence" of events.
Kristen is still here and has not been lost after all! Isn't that a lot better than the other possibility?
I say this not to turn this into a debate nor to minimize the hurt that those who were here at the time experienced. But I do invite you, in the privacy of your own soul, to consider it. While it would have been better had it never happened at all, how do those two alternatively respectively make you feel?
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