I'm really glad I ducked back in while I'm waiting for a 3:00 AM flight. I just finshed packing and it's too late to bother sleeping.
Truthseeker1 you said :
but try not to be insulting to those still here.
Please be assured that was not at all my intent. Upon re-reading my original post I can see how the following statement could have been interpreted as such.
Life happens in the real world, not online. I'm going out to experience it.
I truly appologize if this sounded like a blanket inditement of the online community. This statement is s olely directed at myself and no one else. Take a look at numbers next to my name. While the total number of posts is rather modest, take a look at the date I joined this board. I've read this and other boards for several hours a day since well before then. I started reading the old witnet board that Obie Fernandez ran, and Randy Waters' Freeminds site as well. Those two places eventualy brought me to this place, and later other boards. It also started a lot of online friendships, as well as tons of growth and healing.
What I really meant by the above statement, was that I was ready now to put all of that healing and growth to the test by re-imersing myself it the physical world that I have been sorely neglecting. I in no way meant to insult anyone with that statement, and if I did I'm really sorry.
I wish you all the best on your journeys through your own existence, whichever way that path may lie. I posted this because I didn't want to leave on a sour note because of a misunderstanding.
Anton
Edited to add: As I'm heading out the door on my way to the airport I was emabarrassed to realize that I had forgotten to thank our most excellent hosts Simon and Ang before taking off. Thank you for providing a comfortable corner of cyberspace to pull up a chair, put up your feet and touch other minds. I wouldn't be the same person without this board and the online friend's I've made through here.
Edited by - CoolBreeze on 1 February 2003 4:20:59