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Originally Posted by Mastodon
This. Really well put. I wish I could say something brilliant in response (I've started about four different posts) but hopefully it counts for something if I say that it's something I can relate to so much.
I've come to like you a great deal, Mapleton, even though I know nothing about you.... and even though you have on occasion made me confused ("did I write that post? Oh, right, no, it was the other Ma[...]on"  ) You have a voice, which is yours. Sometimes our voices drown here, but you are seen. And I know what you mean by not wanting to be special, too. |
The thing your parents or school never tell you (or at least didn't tell me,) maybe because they figured that its so self-evident...
the size of the gesture that you put out, or receive, is utterly irrelevant to the size of the emotion that gesture evokes.
I guess if everyone knew how important everything was, no one would get anything done, and maybe our job is to get the f*** over the small stuff. The problem is, for some of us, when there's no big stuff, the small stuff is all you can sweat.
And thank you for your reply. I didn't know because I couldn't read your mind, but its very fulfilling to hear that.
I feel terribly guilty that I can't respond to absolutely everything, absolutely as fast as I would like too, but that's another post! (and I will get to everything... that I can keep in my awful working memory... eventually.)