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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 443349" data-attributes="member: 2020">Hey there, Knight!  Thanks for the Welcome Back.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  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.)</blockquote>

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