Gaucho
Literotica Guru
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- Jul 13, 2000
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SeXy ReDHeaD's last post on her "Cops" thread got me thinking. In it, she responded to and quoted from a post that I had made a month ago and, frankly, had pretty much forgotten about. This both surprised and flattered the hell out of me. And it made me wonder: How often do we post and how much thought do we give to our words before we post them?
And if we post and (for whatever reason) receive no reply to that post, do we then consider our words to have been meaningless?
It hit home to me then that I have been remiss. Since joining the board in July, I have been privileged to read hundreds of posts from all of you. In addition to occasionally stroking my libido, these posts have been a tremendous source of amusement and information to me. They have led to meetings and relationships that I would hardly have dreamed possible.
And they have reminded me of what I consider to be life's greatest truth; that, regardless of our age, gender, ethnicity, and background, we are all one.
And so, as we enter the season of Thanksgiving, consider this a moment of thanks and hope.
Thanks to Laurel and Manu for providing us with this space.
Thanks to all of you for the posts which have so enriched my life these last few months.
Our words are like little time bombs that we leave in our wake. Chosen carefully, they reward us with the knowledge that we are all "...inexplicably bound together, and that to commit ourselves to both the act of writing, and to the free sharing of our ideas and efforts, provides us with a secret wealth that we should never doubt the value of..."
By the same token, ill-considered and thoughtless words leave us cold and alone, immured behind walls of our own making, cut off from the shared treasure of our common humanity. Acknowledged or not, they go off in our hands, crippling us with shards of remorse and regret.
My hope is that we will all continue to post and be thoughtful about what we post.
No post is meaningless and you never know when your own words will come back to grace or to haunt you.
Again, thank you all.
And if we post and (for whatever reason) receive no reply to that post, do we then consider our words to have been meaningless?
It hit home to me then that I have been remiss. Since joining the board in July, I have been privileged to read hundreds of posts from all of you. In addition to occasionally stroking my libido, these posts have been a tremendous source of amusement and information to me. They have led to meetings and relationships that I would hardly have dreamed possible.
And they have reminded me of what I consider to be life's greatest truth; that, regardless of our age, gender, ethnicity, and background, we are all one.
And so, as we enter the season of Thanksgiving, consider this a moment of thanks and hope.
Thanks to Laurel and Manu for providing us with this space.
Thanks to all of you for the posts which have so enriched my life these last few months.
Our words are like little time bombs that we leave in our wake. Chosen carefully, they reward us with the knowledge that we are all "...inexplicably bound together, and that to commit ourselves to both the act of writing, and to the free sharing of our ideas and efforts, provides us with a secret wealth that we should never doubt the value of..."
By the same token, ill-considered and thoughtless words leave us cold and alone, immured behind walls of our own making, cut off from the shared treasure of our common humanity. Acknowledged or not, they go off in our hands, crippling us with shards of remorse and regret.
My hope is that we will all continue to post and be thoughtful about what we post.
No post is meaningless and you never know when your own words will come back to grace or to haunt you.
Again, thank you all.
