Natisse said:

I nearly married a person I met here several years ago...to this day, through ups and downs (including breakups and knockdown, drag out arguments), tears, laughter, sickness, health and age we are still bonded as friends and will be for life.
[Edited 8/17/06 7:31am]

CarrieMpls said:

you're lucky hon, yep

you guys are a bunch of pussies.

Natisse said:

I realize that. lol. I have been very, very fortunate in the friendship department. I try my best not to forget it and let the people who are important to me know that.

Imago said:

I declare shenanigans on that response!

Anx said:

that about sums it up!

Natisse said:

It is the same as with real friends, i mean many of the real friends i have made here and elsewhere i have fallen out with. I guess that it comes down to how we deal with that problem. Like anything we need to deal in an adult manner and admit our mistakes, like any relationship it is give and take and with discussion and honesty we can get through most problems but then again if we really hurt a person we may not make it. It's real life, we are real people with real feelings.

I mean Aksel tried to sit on my face but he is still a mate

mdiver said:

you're definately right... friendship is give and take

Every single orger I really connected with, and there have been..wait let me count...5 ...5 orgers I would say over the 9 or 10 years I've been here...out of those 5 I have met 3. In real life that connection was there, only stronger, and it served as the base for what I would call a soild real life relationship.

CarrieMpls said:

I swear to god, if I see anymore kissing and huggin emoticons, I'm gonna join Spat's clique!

Sweeny79 said:

Same here. It's like you get a "lite" version of them over the Internet and then when you're there in person they're in 3D and all technicolor

Imago said:

I love you Dan

applekisses said:

IMAX! ...

Exactly Apples that's exactly right!!!

there are some orgers... ok two, that i know will always be in my life. there are some orgers that i'd like to get to know better and become better friends with. but all my relationships here are real. wherever life takes me, i know that i have made friends here, and i cherish every friendship.

Imago said:

takes one to know one, meow!

Sweeny79 said:

i'd like to see the IMAX version of a few of you!

Sweeny79 said:

It's so awesome!!!

fantasyislander said:

hubba, hubba

Sweeny79 said:

co-sign...hell i remember the first time i met Herman....i was worried that it would be different to the phone calls and e-mails and MSN stuff and we would be different. I remember walking up to him and thinking "so is this a handshake or a hug?"

I shouldn't have worried.It was stronger than i could have imagined.

And he said the sweetest thing to me after 3 days in London. He said "i knew we were friends but now i know we are brothers"

Oh god i have gone all emo.

So yes this place is real.

mdiver said:

that's so sweet! he'll hate me for saying that forgive me Herman

mdiver said:

applekisses said:

hell yeah!

This is a good example of the reality of it all...


http://www.prince.org/msg/2/195031

mdiver said:

so by default... the pain it causes some of us, hell all of us, is just as real.

It's easy for folks to say "oh get over it! It's just the fucking internet " when someone gets caught up in a n episode of "as the org turns" but people don't realize...for some reason this little box we are all sitting in front of right now, connects us in ways that are truely amazing.. the friends I have made here I love like family I mean that I really do...but I've had myself pretty busted up over fuckers I ain't never met either... it's like anything got it's bad and it's good side.

And both sides are as equally powerfull.

But I have learned...like I said on the other thread....you need to live in your own immediate enviornment, not here...this is not false...the emotionshere are real and hightened....butthey are not 100% reality either...it's like Apples said...Orgerlite...if you live in Orgland too long it really fucks you up... you guys know this.... so again..if you LIVE here...go delete your fucking account right now...or ask me to ban ya...because you need to get control of yourself and get the fuck outa here!

mdiver said:

Herman has absolutely made be bawl before. My first trip meeting him when we spent a quiet moment together saying goodbye before I went home and the second time meeting him when we first had a moment together. Both involved presents he had for me that were, on the surface, just trinkets but because of the sentiment and emotion and words behind them, I couldn't have felt more special in the world.

CarrieMpls said:

wow... that's awesome!

Sweeny79 said:

yes, the pain is real too. sometimes all too real.

Sweeny79 said:

I agree on all counts...and I think that's why we should all remember the responsiblity we have to one another to be as real as we can be when we connect with others here -- remember that even though you've turned off the computer on your end that there is another, miles away, who is carrying around what you've said here, even though they also have a life away from the screen.

mdiver said:

that's wonderful (I'm not going to go on about how beautiful Herman is...I'll just get a beating later from him )

applekisses said:

that is a very good reminder.


btw, you're one that i'd like to get to know better.