Personal Questions

[claws]

I wanted the help but all three specialists I went to said that they couldn't help me as they found it hard to get through to me 😳

Did you refuse to open up? Never been to a psychiatrist but if I ever did I would tell everything so they could help me to get better. Isn't that the whole point of going there?

[Trevor]

I wanted the help but all three specialists I went to said that they couldn't help me as they found it hard to get through to me 😳

Did you refuse to open up? Never been to a psychiatrist but if I ever did I would tell everything so they could help me to get better. Isn't that the whole point of going there?

I told them that I wanted help and was 100 % open with them but they said that they couldn't find a way to get through to me and assist me, so I left it there and haven't been in therapy since.

[ER]

How do you want to be remembered?

[indianasmith]

As a good Christian, a loving father and husband, a loyal friend, and a teacher who loved his students.

[RCMerchant]

How do you want to be remembered?

I don't care.

[chefzombie]

How do you want to be remembered?

exactly as i will be. as barri.

[ER]

I would like to be forgotten. That's why I don't even want a tombstone. As one of my favorite poems says it so well:


Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim   
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up   
Thine individual being, shalt thou go   
To mix for ever with the elements,   
To be a brother to the insensible rock   
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain   
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak   
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. 
     Yet not to thine eternal resting-place   
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish   
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down   
With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings,   
The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good,   
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,   
All in one mighty sepulchre.   The hills   
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,—the vales   
Stretching in pensive quietness between;   
The venerable woods—rivers that move   
In majesty, and the complaining brooks   
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,   
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,—   
Are but the solemn decorations all   
Of the great tomb of man.

[indianasmith]

I would like to be forgotten. That's why I don't even want a tombstone. As one of my favorite poems says it so well:


Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim   
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up   
Thine individual being, shalt thou go   
To mix for ever with the elements,   
To be a brother to the insensible rock   
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain   
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak   
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. 
     Yet not to thine eternal resting-place   
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish   
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down   
With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings,   
The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good,   
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,   
All in one mighty sepulchre.   The hills   
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,—the vales   
Stretching in pensive quietness between;   
The venerable woods—rivers that move   
In majesty, and the complaining brooks   
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,   
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,—   
Are but the solemn decorations all   
Of the great tomb of man.

As long as any of us who know you survive, my friend, you will NEVER be forgotten!

[RCMerchant]

Do you like hot peppers?
I LOVE hot peppers. But I won't go beyond jabeneros. I HAVE- but not with my gut like it is. Heartburn would kill me.

[Alex]

I like hot food, although it gives Kristi asthma attacks, so I very rarely get to eat it these days. I suspect I've lost my tolerance for it.

[ER]

What is the longest time in your life you've spend afraid?

[indianasmith]

That's a good question; I'm not a  fearful person - not on my own account, anyway.
The longest I was afraid for myself was probably the three days it took USS Lockwood to ride out a huge Pacific typhoon.  No joke; those waves were 30-40 feet tall and were breaking over the bow of the ship.  I was seasick, scared, and homesick all at once.

As far as being fearful for others - once I didn't hear from my best friend, with whom I write back and forth several times a day, for over a week.  I was scared something awful had happened.

[RCMerchant]

What is the longest time in your life you've spend afraid?

A second or two. I don't get scared- I get angry.

[Allhallowsday]

What is the longest time in your life you've spend afraid?

A second or two. I don't get scared- I get angry.

Dig it.  What we have in common I've pointed out: lucky... to be alive.  

Do you like hot peppers?
I LOVE hot peppers. But I won't go beyond jabeneros. I HAVE- but not with my gut like it is. Heartburn would kill me.

Oh yeah, pickled hot peppers on pizza, sub sandwich, chili, love 'em!

[ER]

Then you're all  lucky. I've been afraid many times and sometimes for a long time. Always with reason though, and I always kept going.