Thanks Alexandra

You post very useful posts. I'll try really hard to remember that people still miss me even if they don't post about me. I think maybe it's not so much about the missing me part, but about the caring about me part. I equate missing me with caring about me.

I suppose I shouldn't assume that not posting about me means not missing about me and not caring about me.

The new rule is going to be difficult for me, I think. I'm so used to thinking the way I do. The new rule is going to force me to change my thinking. I think it is a good thing because it is not healthy to think of death in a light way.

Sometimes I think the rules are a sort of forced cognitive behavioural therapy...where you have to change your thinking and your behaviour and following the rules will only help a person. I feel that way for the "assuming things" rule. The one where people cannot post things that assume bad intent from other people.

If I can really change the way I think about that, that is, I force myself to assume people have the best of intentions and do not want bad things to happen to me, I think I'll be much happier.

Yeah, I really feel like the rules are a sort of forced cognitive behavioural therapy sometimes...especially those that force one to think of good things instead of bad.

I'm not very good at making friends. Maybe I'm being too direct in asking for people to be my friends. I'm not too sure how to create history. Maybe I should PM the people who post to me regularly? I know I always like it when I get a PM. Maybe other people will like it too.

I liked that story you told. It's very clever.