PC helps center and focus me. I enjoy sharing my experiences, telling my stories; it helps me be a better thinker and writer. I like reading other people's stories too and seeing what they are doing, what ideas they have and living "vicariously" with them. I'll never forget the first time I was at a store and thought about an online-only friend and what they'd said and how it related to my shopping! I had another friend and we got into a long discussion on "grapes" and to this day, I think of her when buying fruit at the grocery store :-)

It's nice having someone to think about when lonely or just doing chores, feeling "expanded" in some way by the friendships here.