Guest guest Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Hi, Kerrie, 2 messages in one. One with my moderator's hat on, and one just as me, an ordinary human being going through that same aloneness that you are. The first, with the moderator's hat on: I'd appreciate it if next time you post a message, in which the original message is long, you'd trim off the original message. We have a board in which so may people correspond, that if everyone did that, it would make a daily digest cumbersome to read. It also makes it cumbersome if everyone responds to the same long message, and it gets repeated several times in a day. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation. This board has 3,500 people, so you can understand how difficult it makes my job or the job of any co-moderator, if I have to keep doing it for each one. The good thing is, one can go online and see what the original post is, to which the reply is being given..they are all linked by discussion thread. Here I am at 6:10 a.m., moderating, to rally each person who sends in a message to do it themselves instead of me having to do it for them. You know the old adage, " Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he fishes for a lifetime. " So, I'm aiming to " teach " rather than " do it for " or " enable " . Sometimes it feels like an uphill job. And I understand it can be hard for the members, too. Sometimes when we are emotionally overwrought, we forget to do the little practical things that make life smoother, like trimming off the original message a bit. Second, here's me speaking as just another member and human being: Even though I'm the moderator of this forum, I'm also coming out of a recent depression, and I'm not working with clients at the moment, so I can understand what loneliness feels like. Usually they are phone clients, as I am still in the process of getting my green card in this foreign country (USA), and I don't know when that will come through, although it's been 4 years since we moved here, and without the paperwork, I cannot expand my local practice. So when I work, it's usually on the phone, which I'm not doing right now, except for with friends.at times. Sometimes, my only company is myself and my plants. So, I'm really glad to know you, and would love to hear what a cattle station is like. Kerrie, as you tap, see what comes up for you..it may be events in your life that had similar emotions of you feeling the aloneness - perhaps as a child? See what comes up.something surely will. AS I hear your story, I too am working on the same issue of feeling left out. What's coming up for me right now is this. As a child, I moved from country to country. Born in Delhi India, then moved to Jerusalem, Israel at the age of 3, then a series of moves my whole lifelong - a move to Damascus, Syria at age 7, then back to another city in India for a year at age 8, then back to Damascus at age 9, then on to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at age 10-12. In 5th grade, when I was 10, I remember really feeling left out. Most of the kids were American. I did not even know the culture then - I ended up going to a slumber party where there was a barbeque and everyone was in shorts and t-shirts, in a party frock. I felt embarrassed. I was a vegetarian, and there was no veg food. I felt hungry, ignored and uncared for. Hours after everyone had eaten, someone opened up a can of mushrooms for me. The other girls (day scholars and boarders) would talk about make-up and stuff in one of the rooms of the other boarders, and I was rarely invited. I enjoyed skip-rope, I remember, but when it came to sports, I was the last one to be picked for baseball. I used to love to read and had read all the books by my favorite authors in the library (an alone activity), so I guess, writing comes naturally to me now. I sent in a post to the group yesterday about being depressed, but no-one has responded on this list. It makes me feel sad and left out. I'm using Q.I./BSFF on it, so I'm going to go and work on it now. We seem to be vibrating with the same issues, and your post caught my eye. I hope we both heal well together, with this forum as our link. Warmly, Dayu P.S. - To illustrate what I mean, how about trimming a message like this down to this size. Or you can delete the original message altogether. Thanks, hun, for your cooperation. Hi Kat, Thanks for the reply.They all sounds like good affimations ill give it a try. I appreciate the input take care kerrie <js_kat@...> wrote: > > Hi Kerrie, > > How about tapping on: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Dear Kerrie, I don't know if this resonates for you or not, but I'm finding this prayer, three-quarters of the way down this article, helpful. It makes me feel peaceful..and if anyone comes to mind, I say this prayer. I want to be at peace with everyone. If I connect with anyone, I say this prayer. Yesterday, I said it for the animals I saw - birds, a lizard, mosquitoes, ants, for flowers, all the people on all my lists - I'm saying it one list at a time, for my family, for anyone who comes to mind as I'm healing my past...it feels good. The funny thing is, I went out to buy something and fill gas in my car last night, and while getting back into the car, a mosquito just sat on my arm and didn't bite me! That was something new and has never happened before. You think the prayer had anything to do with it?! lol! Love, Dayu One_TapTheEnergy/message/728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Dayu D'Sa <dayudsa@...> wrote: Dear Kerrie, I don't know if this resonates for you or not, but I'm finding this prayer, three-quarters of the way down this article, helpful. It makes me feel peaceful..and if anyone comes to mind, I say this prayer. I want to be at peace with everyone. If I connect with anyone, I say this prayer. Yesterday, I said it for the animals I saw - birds, a lizard, mosquitoes, ants, for flowers, all the people on all my lists - I'm saying it one list at a time, for my family, for anyone who comes to mind as I'm healing my past...it feels good. The funny thing is, I went out to buy something and fill gas in my car last night, and while getting back into the car, a mosquito just sat on my arm and didn't bite me! That was something new and has never happened before. You think the prayer had anything to do with it?! lol! Love, Dayu One_TapTheEnergy/message/728 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 > > > > >Hmm thanks for your input and the two messages in one. I hope I have done this right..lol Not being very forum literate. I see there a few issues there that I can relate to. It gave me some food for thought. Plus a forum excersise Ill think on the feeling left out idea. I too was always picked last in sports events and was always alone at school. I hope you were able to get though your issues of recent times. let me know how you go. take care kerrie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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