@tends2dogs Thank you for the kind words. My late husband used to tell me I should write stories, but I'm way too lazy and disorganized.
You know, I always find it interesting when people say they don't want to give some of themselves because they are afraid of what might happen.
Yet, these are the same people who come on and read about other people. You can put a few words down and it could tell a lot about a person.
A deceitful person who looks to do no good, will find a way to do it.
There are several people here who email each other (WOW! They actually have each other's email address....OHHHH!). I'm one of those people. I know from reading here there are others. I've made some wonderful friends by sharing myself and my family with some of these same people.
I agree one has to be careful about posting things, however, once you get old(er) you learn that a lot of your business is already out there for people to see and find out about, if they wanted to. I can go on websites now and for $9.99 find out pretty much whatever I wanted to about someone, unfortunately.
I have friends who are scared to death of facebook, the have unlisted numbers, they don't use the internet and so on and so on. It's wise to limit certain information. However, the first thing I have to give out to Drs, hospitals (by the time you are 70 you've hit the hospital a few times), social security, honey, you name it!
I posted that because I was in the mood to think back these memories. There are protections one can do to protect themselves, that's taken care of.
I love reading everyone's post. The one's that are 2 words, the one's that are 1/2 a page. I wish (as I said earlier) I had the gift like some of you have, to be able to say something that makes sense in just a few words, I don't. I know I often blather on and on (and most of you are so kind to not be rude to me about it).
Sometimes I read posts on here and you can just tell by the words (usually a few words, often with hidden digs) and you realize these people are unhappy in their life.
When I post what I did here, I sure don't do it to say, "I had a wonderful life". My life was and is good. But nothing is perfect and good all of the time. That wasn't the question, was it?
This would be a place no one would want to go to if everyone posted things that were down and filled with sorrow.
We are lucky (yes, lucky) when people come on here and do post sorrowful things because it gives some of us a chance to let them know that even though we don't know them, we understand their sorrow and hopefully, by them knowing we care and we've 'been there' it helps both of us. (Some long sentence, see what I mean about blathering)?
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