Some time in summer, while checking various possible URLs for my then non-existent blog, I came across this post. The woman writing it just started blogging and you could easily tell she had a lot to let out. So desperate and honest. I wanted so much to reach out to that someone, hold her hand, and tell her she's not alone, there are people who listen.
I wrote her a long comment. I really encouraged her to keep writing.
She didn't.
I sometimes remember of the woman and wonder how she's doing. Someone I've never met, know almost nothing about, but I still wonder. I wish she knew.
In times when life gives us lemons it is important to remember that we are never alone. Maybe it is your faith, a friend, or even a random person you have yet to meet, there is always someone who is wiling to help you out. Just hang in there.
Thank you seems to be such an inadequate thing to say.
ReplyDeleteDon't mention it. I was so glad to hear from you and know that you are alright.
ReplyDeleteWow...
ReplyDeleteYa know, it's always the huge, loudly out-spoken messages that everyone hears and chooses to ignore. But reading what you wrote about this woman and then reading what she wrote about herself... I realize it's always the smaller, less heard from messages that make the most sense, the ones that almost matter most. Those are the ones that make you wonder if you pay the most attention in the world. I came back to this website recently having almost forgotten about it. I remembered that you posted a comment on one of my own blogs and after reading, I clicked on your picture to see what you've written lately and this was the first one I came across. I realized that I need to seriously pay more attention to the things that I'd forgotten, the things that seem insignificant at the time and remember that it's not always the big importantly scheduled things that make the most difference in my view of the world... It's the little things like this that make me think the hardest and remember that I'm not the only one in the world... Thank you.
I'm so glad you didn't forget the road to my blog :) Your first comment was the very first comment I received here and it is still special. It makes me so happy to know that my writing provokes someone to think.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure you've noticed, but your old comment inspired me to write a blog post. Here it is: http://notyourregulargirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-to-keep-blogging.html