Among Friends

[Deb1010yetagain]

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@Karnerblue wrote:

Sometimes I'm not so sure I am.  Am I in the wrong place or are they. 

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Hey @Karnerblue, I ventured over to the Beauty Forum and the thread I found made me think of you and this thread about Among Friends.  Wow, they seem to be nasty over there.  Check out this thread...

http://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/WHY-DO-WOMEN-DO-THIS-ALSO/m-p/2513093#M467845

[Karnerblue]

@Deb1010yetagain, I caught that one.  So much time given and attention spent on such things.

[3cupcakes]

@Karnerblue  Oh, boy, are you right there......we can only do our best!  What a wonderful bond you have w/your 4 legged buddy!  He sounds like the very best! 

[cater]

Karnerblue, just want you to know that I am thinking about you and hoping you are going to have a good day today. Take care and always know you have friends here. Your story about your Dad was so very touching. My Dad has been gone 30 years he would be 102 years old now. Miss him and my Mom so much it been so long but at times it seems like yesterday he was here. We were so close he was my very best friend not just my Dad. I could talk to him about any thing and every thing.  Take care of your self.

[inmemoryofmylittlesis]

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@Deb1010yetagain wrote:

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@Karnerblue wrote:

I'm tearing up as I share this memory.  A few years back when my Dad started having more and more issues with his memory, my sisters kept saying he didn't understand what we were saying and they talked through him and not to him.  They didn't look in his eyes anymore.  It was father's day and they breezed in, dropped off their gift, handed him his card and carried on their conversations with one another.  Saying how it didn't matter about the cards because he didn't understand anymore.  Well it broke my heart.  So when I left that day I looked straight into his eyes and put my two hands to his face and said "I love you Dad."  He looked at me and took my hand, kissed the tip of my one finger and said "that's the most important thing."  I broke down and sobbed. 

So they can't tell me he does not feel, and when they tell other people he's just a shell of a person I know different.

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@Karnerblue  that is the most beautiful memory.  Thanks for sharing.  You are a very special loving person -- you and your dad are lucky to have each other.

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Ita @Deb1010yetagain. @Karnerblue❤️

[NAES1]

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@cater wrote:

Karnerblue, just want you to know that I am thinking about you and hoping you are going to have a good day today. Take care and always know you have friends here. Your story about your Dad was so very touching. My Dad has been gone 30 years he would be 102 years old now. Miss him and my Mom so much it been so long but at times it seems like yesterday he was here. We were so close he was my very best friend not just my Dad. I could talk to him about any thing and every thing.  Take care of your self.

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@cater

               "hello dear friend, I have read your loving story of two special parents so very much as I had".    I know what a Best friend is, as you so beautifully said__could talk about any thing happening in your life__.

 I am more aware, now, than ever from reading - here- in just four short years the children who are now adults are absolutely broken. This has surprised be more than I thought, although I was not foreign to this type of

behavior while growing up, especially in my different grade levels of schools. I can read in to many hearts, maybe from a few words, but have always known you perpetuate happiness and have a deep love for life, along with wanting to reach out to help, if only by listening carefully, then responding. That, in itself is a Godly gift..you were blessed. I wanted you to know that. 

Thank you for being that concerned human being. Those traits have almost become an extinct piece of society, as a whole. In my every day world I witness that more than I am comfortable with. God has either been replaced with selfishness or they never knew Him. That is why I know how important that The Family is. In fact, there is a book called The Family. There lies the roots how a child will go. Parenting is the most difficult experience two (TWO) people can share, coming out with a 'job well done'.

your friend....thank you for just being here, along with all the (our/ my) friends that we have a tight bond with.

       NAES

[cater]

NAES, thank you for your very kind words, you just made my day. I try to be as nice as I can to everyone. Someone once told me that some day I will realize that I can't mother the whole world that I should just worry about my self. Hasn't happened yet I still worry about everyone.

[NAES1]

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@cater wrote:

NAES, thank you for your very kind words, you just made my day. I try to be as nice as I can to everyone. Someone once told me that some day I will realize that I can't mother the whole world that I should just worry about my self. Hasn't happened yet I still worry about everyone.

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@cater,

    No truer words spoken. I use to be a fix-it-care PERSON all of the time, then I learned, ` I have been there also`, maybe Not exactly the same situation but close enough to just ask questions and go forward. 

 We are [each] possibly going 'to', if we live long enough, we  have our own up hill trials to deal with.

 No, most people can not mother the world. I just had to learn the hard way, but I care with great concern, along with a great deal of sensitivity. Being in charge of patients -life and death, situations can drain almost anyone, especially mentally. 

As my father often told me...do your best and let others do their part.

Letting people know that I am there when needed.

 Also, the bigger part of this circle is we have to take care of family first, but our own health is very important to make an action happen. I am not adverse in asking questions then blending in, here, how may I help you or what can I do?

 I suppose I am one person who can do only one thing... at one time, well.     NAES