(OT) I am back

[Edena_of_Neith]

My deepest sympathy, Creamsteak.
Thank you for the Welcome Back. Cheers to you, my friend.
The World is so vast, and so great, and to appreciate this one must actually travel through it.
Just talking about it, does not give the true feeling of it's size.
Or it's emptiness.

The Internet is very deceptive.
We call ourselves the ENBoard Community - and we ARE a community - and yet we are separated by endless expanses of empty space; green forests, fields of every kind, deserts both green and bleak, vast oceans it takes many hours even to fly over, and lofty mountains crowned with snow and ice.
None of which we perceive, and none of which is relevant, when we are here in the ENBoard Community.
For on the Internet distance is not a factor. Truely, in that, the Internet is a miraculous thing.

 

[Knight Otu]

Welcome back, Edena!

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Hey there, Knight! Thanks for the Welcome Back.

I guess my words cannot convey the reality of the Real World.
It is too big, too beautiful, too lonely, and too overwhelming to be expressed by words.

Sunset at the Grand Canyon is so incredible that if someone were to actually paint it, they would be lamblasted as being surrealistic or inaccurate - NO sunset could possibly look like THAT sunset.
The Big Sky at night in the Panhandle of Texas is enough to cow the most arrogant of men. The land is utterly dark, and utterly devoid of trees.
There is nothing between oneself and Heaven, and the eternal stars beam down at you on every side.
The great city of New York, along with it's entire metropolitan area (including all of New Jersey, Connecticut, and Long Island) could be plunked down into New Mexico, and nobody would ever find it again.

You know, we speak of overpopulation, and we speak true enough.
Yet in America, 1/3rd of our entire population lives in a string of cities along our upper eastern seaboard, from Bangor, Maine, down to Washington.
Most of our remaining population lives in cities or in suburbs around them, especially on the southeastern and west coasts.
Our greatest cities are but little places in the great wide continent of America.
Little islands of light in a sea of darkness, or shining oasises of buildings amidst a green (or, in the winter, white) ocean of land.
I am guessing it is that way in Australia and New Zealand. I cannot speak for Europe or Asia.

The vastness of the World is daunting.
It is frightening.
It can be overwhelming.

The size of the World is only equalled by it's loneliness (The wonder is not that people marry. The wonder is that there are any people who are NOT married.)

 

[The Forsaken One]

Wb Edena.

THought things were going better at home, or flaring up again if I may ask since you put it in the topic?

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Hey there, Forsaken One. Nice to hear from you again!

- - -

Things are cruddy as usual.
However, I am back online, and that is an improvement over the recent situation.

Living with, and having to deal with, an alcoholic is ... well, it is like being in a madhouse, is what it is like, to be blunt.
Worse than a madhouse, really, for in a madhouse there are authorities present to control things. Here, there is nobody to control anything, and no law to help.

Here, there is no reason to prevail over insanity.
There is no hope that reason will ever prevail.
There is no hope, period.

 

[zouron]

wb edena! sso glad you are back here we were all worried (well me and william... or in any case me ) hope we will hear a lot from you in the coming months and I hope soemwhat things perhaps clear up for you .

In any case we are always your friends if you should need us.

 

[Airwolf]

Welcome back, Edena!

I also want to say thanks for such a glowing description of my native state, Arizona. I think it is beautiful too.

If you ever get down our way again you should drop me a line.

I agree with you about alcohol, my family went through a bad experience too.

Again, welcome back.

 

[Buttercup]

Edena_of_Neith here.
I am back, after being unable to come online since September.

Welcome back, Edena! I missed you.

I'm so sorry for all the trouble you had to go through. Hopefully things will work out well in the end, but as someone else said, such is not always the case.

Again, welcome back!

 

[Reprisal]

Welcome back!

Hey Edena!

Great to see you back!

- Rep.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Zouron, hey there. Thanks for the welcome back. How are you doing? How are things in Denmark? What's going on, my friend?

Airwolf, to you a thanks for the welcome back. It would be nice to have friends to meet, when one travels, so thanks for the offer. I will say that it is very lonely out there, on the road. Arizona is a beautiful state. Unfortunately, some sort of black stuff gets all over the ground (and one's car) in Phoenix. What is this stuff?

Buttercup, thanks for the welcome back. Things may work out well for me, although I don't know yet. Unfortunately, the Alcoholic Person I mentioned is in total Denial of his alcoholism, and his situation is a bad one.

Reprisal, thank you for the welcome back. How are things up in Canada? What's going on with you?

It's nice to have people welcome you back here, when you are troubled and lonely.
It's nice to have friends.
Cheers to all of you.