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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
- Dec 3, 2021
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I am starting this thread in 'Off topic' in the way of updates and, hopefully, keeping in touch. For the time being. I intended something similar when I first re-joined the forum but realised that it is probably better suited here.
While I have always been what people like to call a 'loner', in the last three years, I have become a recluse. I know it is not uncommon amongst the forum's folk. It is what happens when there is nowhere to go and nothing to do. Thus far, it is my memories, writings and poetry that have kept me breathing. As my favourite poet once wrote, 'Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.'
I found the last few days particularly difficult. Like many, I, too, have read the NYT's, by now, notorious article. At first, it made me angry. I expressed it in a few lines I posted on the mega thread. As time went by, I felt worse and worse. Deeply saddened. Then I sat down and wrote a letter to NYT. I tried to post the extract from it on the mega thread, but it would not let me. So, I have enclosed it here.
I know that the chances of it being opened, let alone read by anyone at NYT, are all but non-existent. I kept on asking myself what was it that made me so upset. Finally, I realised that it was not only the content but the tone of it. Barely disguised loathing. Absence of any attempt at understanding. Disrespect.
I can understand peoples' surprise, even shock, when they first come across SS. Especially if they have never come across anything like it before. I remember when I first stumbled upon it. I stared at it in disbelief. But I kept on reading. The more I read more sadness but also respect I felt. I wrote about it in my very first post … back in March last year. I still feel the same.
Disagreeing, opposing SS or similar forums is not the problem. Dehumanising them to forcibly shut them down is.
I intend to update this thread from time to time.
It would be nice to hear your thoughts.
Thank you.
While I have always been what people like to call a 'loner', in the last three years, I have become a recluse. I know it is not uncommon amongst the forum's folk. It is what happens when there is nowhere to go and nothing to do. Thus far, it is my memories, writings and poetry that have kept me breathing. As my favourite poet once wrote, 'Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.'
I found the last few days particularly difficult. Like many, I, too, have read the NYT's, by now, notorious article. At first, it made me angry. I expressed it in a few lines I posted on the mega thread. As time went by, I felt worse and worse. Deeply saddened. Then I sat down and wrote a letter to NYT. I tried to post the extract from it on the mega thread, but it would not let me. So, I have enclosed it here.
I know that the chances of it being opened, let alone read by anyone at NYT, are all but non-existent. I kept on asking myself what was it that made me so upset. Finally, I realised that it was not only the content but the tone of it. Barely disguised loathing. Absence of any attempt at understanding. Disrespect.
I can understand peoples' surprise, even shock, when they first come across SS. Especially if they have never come across anything like it before. I remember when I first stumbled upon it. I stared at it in disbelief. But I kept on reading. The more I read more sadness but also respect I felt. I wrote about it in my very first post … back in March last year. I still feel the same.
Disagreeing, opposing SS or similar forums is not the problem. Dehumanising them to forcibly shut them down is.
I intend to update this thread from time to time.
It would be nice to hear your thoughts.
Thank you.