(09-27-2023, 05:33 PM)Snarl Wrote:(09-27-2023, 10:49 AM)Grace Wrote: I left that forum over it. I realized this pretense of all being friends was nothing but a lie I had bought into.
However, I tell myself that's just online where people rant and that's it. But I do wonder how much that bleeds into real life too.
Wisdom in your words above.
I invest a lot less in friends as I grow older. If I am honest with myself, I have two left ... not counting the wife (and she's really all that matters).
I invest heavily in neighbors. I have invested heavily in my Son-In-Law. Everyone else is blood kin.
Learned the value of on-line relationships in being booted from TOS.
Yeah, that was a lesson wasn't it? I never got booted but why bother going to a site where all the people you liked were gone?
But yeah after all that it is better to put any real investment into those closest to you. That's who we affect the most, and who we can say we know.
That's a change coming from me of all people isn't it? But I think everything is changing.
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