Posted by Daisym on April 21, 2007, at 23:37:02
In reply to Re: An Open Letter to Babblers - please read, posted by verne on April 21, 2007, at 20:55:57
I tried but I only managed reading about half of your open letter. I felt compelled after the "please read" to actually read a post for a change.
***Sorry, I'm sort of known for my long-winded posts, I do tend to ramble.I don't think your sigh after one of my posts meant to do anything but make me feel more alienated. "Sigh, he doesn't get it". "Sigh, he's not one of us". "Sigh..." Sort of like, the aforementioned, "Pardon Me". Same crap really.
***Actually, it was meant to convey great, deep sadness because you were leaving. Because that was/is my fear. People leave babble when things get rough. But I can see how it would be misread. Should have waited before pushing that darn "send" button. I apologize for what it must have sounded like.
Emotionally loaded *sighs* and *pardon me's* are allowed as *civil*. Just a different way of telling someone to jump off a cliff really.
****Nope, didn't mean that at all. You don't know me, so you have no reason to believe this, but it isn't how I operate.I can play the babble word game with the best of them, but I refuse. I could run circles around you, even provoke you into getting yourself blocked, and still not be censored. I'm being nice, and extra civil, by leaving.
***** maybe, but I'm not up to the challenge right now. Life is hard enough. And this wasn't meant at all as a word game or even to provoke anything. Should have kept my head down and stayed in my corner. I wasn't even really trying to help calm things down, or choose sides or anything. I was just expressing my own silly sentiments. I feel fully chastised now for doing that. My own risk though, so I'll own it.I could play your game but the cost is too high. To borrow from Dostovesky, "The price of admission is too high."
****I think I agree and will fade away again. I just hope you know that I didn't, don't, never had, anything personal against you. I don't know you, you don't know me. I'm still sad, you sound angry. This is a loss for both of us.
Be well.
Daisy
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