I was just thinking about you, thanks for checking in! Just got back from NC, visiting friends, but mainly bringing our son down to his date for prom...of course I'll be posting that, tons of awesome photos to show off haha!
How are things? I'll bounce over to your page in case you posted :)
Haven't been posting. Been around for a few days, checking in. Going back out to the land with no name, where the things grow, and the birds chirp. And no good internet so I don't even bother with it, and just live.
That sounds like heaven honestly. If it wasn't for needing this phone for work I would happily fling it into the lake.
I recall our conversation, maybe a few months ago. Mentioned how getting away returns the mind to how things were when I was young, before the internet took over our daily lives. I think if I didn't take these breaks I wouldn't even be able to remember I had that conversation with you.
I remember, and agree. It's the reason we lease 25 acres in the national forest. Less than twenty minutes from home, we get to retreat from all things electronic, away from people, just woods waterfalls and ponds topped off with a campfire. I would lose it without that refresher. Maybe not quite WTP level lose it, but definitely go a little cray cray.
Watching the world from a device is heartbreaking enough.
WTP level lose it...
I'm just going to go ahead and point something out. I struggle to even think of it. Right now as it comes to mind, it's just hard. Heartbreaking.
Look up Lee MacMillan. Look deeply into her story. That's the worse case scenario of what happens to people in this kind of arena if they allow WTP level crazy inside. She was bullied, hard.
I don't want that here for these people. They deserve better. Everyone does.
I know who she is, though I wasn't aware of bullying, only depression.
One of my closest friends was manic depressive, a lot like her, he came across publicly as full of life. The thing about manic, is they have a side that is truly sunshine, happiness, humor etc. but when they crash, they crash. I pulled him out of several spirals, Howie many more, but we weren't in time for the final one. Though I put a lot of the blame on the fact that he was forced to choose between his career and weed- his natural medication- and then put on a drug that had suicidal tendencies as its top side effect.
As for bullying, the worst is when the bullier pretends they're the victim. I wish I couldn't think about it, but it cast a shadow over the platform for me which I'm still struggling to shake off. It helps a great deal to hear from you though, so I truly thank you for dropping in.
Jeeze, sorry, I'm making it sound like I was the target when in fact it was you and the boom.
Ah well, I guess in a world of balance we have to have douchebags in order to have the awesome ones :)
The depression was there yeah. I saw some of the hit pieces with my own eyes though, on Youtube. Entire half hour videos dedicated to harassing people. And of course those videos have comment sections, and those people in those comment sections would take what they've learned to her other social platforms in order to mock, but I didn't see that part. Her friends mentioned how much that stuff hurt her. So it certainly didn't help things. I'm sure if you added the word bullying when searching her name, you'd find something.
There's an entire conversation locked into Blurt now where WTP and his sidekick expose themselves. It happened shortly after I confronted the bully. And it's fucking eerie because at the exact time same time, in one space here he was acting like a victim, while elsewhere laughing and patting themselves on the back for a "job well done."
They don't even take it seriously themselves, then lash out at people for not believing the lies.