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When mom died (aka, 'The old Lady') on 12/31/2004 most the world never noticed or cared. What with that Tsunami and all where 100,000 plus died all in one day. And to be honest, their deaths didn't affect me except to make me even more depressed.
When a 45yr old friend of mine was buried this Saturday, it did not affect you at all. Though it did me to some extent and to her kids and family a great extent.
Soldiers die on a regular basis, but I could not tell you their names or even if one died today - because it did not affect me personally.
But I can tell you THIS: we, as decent human beings, can understand each other and the pain we go through in such events and many others (house fires, health care issues, divorces, kids acting up, etc and so on).
And as understanding folks we want to help one another. You may not FEEL the pain I am over things I have went through in my life, but you feel YOURS and can relate. We understand one another and want something better for us all - ie, we want to minimize such pain because we get that it sucks...even when it is not us feeling it.
I know there are a great many people out there suffering, and while I cannot fully appreciate it from their view point I can relate - which is why I (and you) want to make their lives better.
Those on the right want you to feel what they do about your situation - nothing. Get over it, move on, after all they are handling your situation in life just fine.
They have health insurance and a good job and you have neither? Well, they don't care about the pain you are going through because the only thing they feel is what affects them.
I post on DU because I know the people here can at least have some empathy towards me, even if it does not affect them. I know they understand and want the same things I do in life, even if they cannot fully comprehend my situation and I cannot theirs.
We get it. We can see a post by someone sad and depressed and say 'I have been there, talk to me' - and I think that is reflective in our politics.
I am not gay, but I can tell you from my experiences with my gay friends what hell they have been through and be sympathetic to their plight and understand it. I don't have cancer, but I have had people very close to me die from it. And even if it is something I have not had personal contact with I can relate to the pain and psychological impact things have on people.
Because I am a person as well.
Your pain may not be mine and I may not feel it, but I have felt enough pain in this life to understand that when you post something about yours that it is meaningful and saying something nice to you is one small way I can better your life with just my mind and my keyboard.
And that goes for farewell threads as well where people reach out for understanding.
Come on folks, we have lived through 8 years of hell under bush and we all snap at times, add that to the personal hells we are all going through and I can understand why people snap at times. Even in the 7th level of hell we call GDP here (compared to the 6th level of hell called the dungeon).
If nothing else I expect here, more than anywhere else I go, for people to be kind and forgiving of one another.
And I am proud to say that I am usually never disappointed with what I find posted here by you good folks (with the exception of when it comes to threads about certain people dying....I mean, come on, Steve Irwin was not that bad of a guy! :rofl: ).
The left has something the right probably never will - the ability to step mentally into the shoes of others and understand their plight, even when it does not affect them directly, and work to change the future for the betterment of us all.
Fight as we might, be pissed off at each other as we may be at times, we are still some damned good people - and you are folks I am proud to call my friends.
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