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I was in a very dark and desperate place when I started this blog - far more dark and desperate than anyone knew. The blogging friendships that developed over the past year have allowed me to begin to believe that I actually have value - that my place in this world really does matter. I owe each one of you a great deal of gratitude.~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
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21 comments:
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i found your site from vinny and matt
I have a blog that I had to abandon about a month ago because
here is my sunday secret
My DAD had a stroke while I was trying to help get him out of a
6 hour diabetic coma..(july 10, the same date that my husband's birthday)
My ken (I've been widowed twice)
committed suicide on 12/20/06
I found your blog and it has helped me so friggin much
I am currently using a g rated blog that updates my dad's condition and I can't go to my site
because I ****am on the friggin hospital's wireless***
If you are interested, I'll email you the link to my blog, I am going to be camping here at your blog for a while if that is okay
I can only read in short bursts while dad is napping
anyway
you are a wonderful blogger
we have some things in common
I love your sunday secrets
just wanted to let you know who i am and why I am camping here
It's good you've found a lot of support through blogging.
I know it helps me to get stuff off my mind and then get some feedback on my thoughts. It's like FREE therapy and you know how I love a bargain. ;)
Oh I said alot, bared my soul as it were, but I don't so that so I erased it. Bits and pieces, bits and pieces. I'm glad I found yhou too...
By the way, did hubby have a strawberry?
Charlene, it catches me off guard when someone tells me that I have helped them. Starting the blog was very selfish in nature, but has become something else. Please stay for as long as you'd like and yes, I would love for you to send the link to your blog.
FF, you know, even when things go terribly bad on this blog, it's still a great support!
Lu, I'll take your bits and pieces any day. I'm glad you found me too!
I am happy to see CHARLENE again. I will say a prayer for her father. I think we all have issues, especially when we get into our forties and fifties. Dana, please remember that your life has value, especially to Cam. And I think your life has great valve to that gal you see in the mirror every morning. I'm just sayin.
I'm glad that your outlook has changed somewhat and I enjoy your blog, but silly girl; friends don't "owe" each other anything. ; ) Cheers Sexy!!
Blogs have many different positives, in different ways for each of us.. It's gotten me back to writing, and possibly recording stories that my family will care to read when I'm gone..
Doomed, if there is one thing I've learned through blogging it's that I'm not "special" - there are many people who have experienced the very things that I thought made me so undesirable as a person. There is odd comfort in that.
Matt-Man, I just hope that some way - some how - I am able to give back to all of you what you have given to me.
Buff, I've often said there are as many reasons people blog as there are blogs out there. It's a wonderful way for people to meet their needs - even when they aren't sure what those needs are.
I really do value you.
there are excellent friendships made an nurtured here in blogville.
Glad that it has helped you!
I am so glad that you started this blog when you did, that it has helped you reach out and discover new things about yourself, that it has opened up a world of friendships for you, and that you continue to post new content daily. I strive to be the kind of blogger that you are. Open, honest, strong, vulnerable, intelligent, witty, and thought provoking. You're a beautiful woman, a special friend, and I still want to get into your pants. *wink*
I know exactly what you mean. I post blogs every week on MySpace/Facebook because I know people love to hear what I think/say. However, there were things I really WANTED to say/share but I couldn't on MS/FB...until someone tuned me into Blogger, which unexpectedly & completely freed me.
"begin to believe that I actually have value ..."
how amazing that is to me, well not as much now as I feel I know you better but when I first started reading you I felt intimidated. I thought you were so sure of yourself and so pulled together that you'd never get my craziness and I'd be annoyed by your perfection.
aren't we all delightfully fucked up!? I'm so self centered to think it's just me!! It's all of us.
I think you're lovely, politics and all. Your HNTs are fierce, you always speak your mind, you're deliciously naughty and from the caliber of your close friends I'd say you're very valued and have an important place in the world.
Oy enough ;)
My dear, you don't owe me or anyone else a thing. Friendship does not (or at least should not) come at a price. I know that's not what you meant, but thought it was still worth saying.
RLL, I have no doubt about that now. Thank you!
SS, it's not even the friendships so much as knowing there were people who cared - that I, in whatever small way, mattered.
Boo, I'm so glad you ended that statement the way you did - I have such a hard time with sappy *wink*
Nolens Volens, blogging has certainly brought me freedom!
Dianne, I'm fairly good at bluffing. I've know for many years that when I put myself out there in that way, when I hide my many vulnerabilities, I push people away. It became the "safe" thing to do. I'm trying to push "safe" to the side and take a chance with rewarding instead.
Jeff, funny you say that and funny that I really have always felt there was a price on friendship and if I didn't pay it in advance, I'd lose the friendship. I'm learning though ...
Others have said it and I am a day late, but you do not owe me a thing...You have also impacted my life Dana...I have learned here...I have shad a tear here...I have laughed out loud here...
You may be at the top of my list alphabetically, but you are also at the top in personal enjoyment.
You are an incredibly brave woman for sharing your innermost self...Sometimes I wish my family did not know of my blog so that i could also expunge some of the thoughts in my head (though the bad thoughts have lessened since I met Nancy)
HUGS to you
I have to say, when I first started writing, I was going through a very very dark moment in my life too. Writing is such an amazing way to vent. I had gone through one of the roughest breakups of my life and felt very depressed. Writing sort of lifted that for me, and yet I found comfort in other people relating to my struggles as well.
Keep writing!
I am glad you are in a better place now.
""Dana said...
Doomed, if there is one thing I've learned through blogging it's that I'm not "special" ""
This is just wrong.
You are special.
It doesn't mean you don't share some things---experiences--joys---fears----loves--- with others.
But yours are unique to YOU.
Because there is only one YOU.;-)
I know this dark place of which you speak. I've been there myself for quite a while.
Each of us has a defining moment in our lives when we have to decide where life is going to take us. For me, it has been this past week. Reading your blog has helped me get through part of it.
Thank you.
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