Re:Feedback on a personal matter?

Hazel,

You stated

".... what I was hoping to hear in the responses here was ...."

Reread your post, and listen to yourself again. You had a VERY GOOD insight into why your online community did not respond to you, better than any you received from this online community.

The answer is within yourself. Expecting others to say what you already know in your own heart shows a lack of trust in yourself.

That may be a good place to begin. It is not that you expect too much of others; rather, you expect too little of yourself.

Yet you have the keen insight and determination to make it through. You said in your original post that you had decided to learn from this incident, another keen insight, and great decision.

Wait. Be patient. Look within your own heart. That is where a real lesson will come.

Not from another online community, this time of people you know even less about and who know nothing about you.

And, yes, I agree with you. Most people do not know how to respond to someone else in tragedy. I have had many clients who became disabled or terminally ill say that the most hurtful thing was that after the illness or accident their friends quit coming around. Were they true friends to start with? I don't know. But friends who remain faithful after tragedy are treasures.

Don H. Morris
Little Rock, Arkansas

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Re:Feedback on a personal matter?, by Hazel, 02/28/03

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