Living on next to nought - is that the key?

beanielou

What a lovely post Karmcat.
Thank you for all your thoughtful contributions to MSe in all the years I have 'known' you.
As I have always said some of my MSE friends know more about me than my RL friends.

Karmacat

Thank you Beanie!

And thats true - people on mse have been with me through terrible times, and were right there with me, supporting me during the ins and outs of them. A wonderful, wonderful community. Greying and the people on here are part of that.

Fortune_Smiles

Nice to see you Karmacat - I wondered where you'd got to. Do take care of yourself.

Greying - I wish I could employ you as my personal chef. I'm sure I'd be much healthier.

Fortune x

Upsidedown_Bear

Fortune_Smiles wrote: »

Greying - I wish I could employ you as my personal chef. I'm sure I'd be much healthier.

Can we job share Greying as our personal chef please?

Nice to see you Karmacat :wave:
MSE is indeed a wonderful community

Piquant_2

Lovely, lovely post karma

You make my day, everyday Greying, even though I don't post all the time, I read you morning and night. You lift my spirits. Thank you

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Well, Dear Reader, I have attempted to come onto this thread several times now this evening, and the funniest of things kept happening, the screen keep going all fuzzy and wavy - like it was raining indoors or something........

beanielou wrote: »

Make the most of the day indeed.
Life is way too short not too.

Thank you Beanie. The bad news was not what we wanted to hear was it?

Karmacat wrote: »

Indeed it is. I've been off mse for ages, needing to take care of myself as yet another virus whistles through my life. And thank god the tendrils of mse are wound into my life, we need to make the most of the day today, indeed.

One thing that Greying reminded me of, when I started following your thread, Greying, was the three gratitudes, at the end of the day, and even through the lurgy, I've been doing that.

Today, I am grateful for:
- mse. The people I know online, the people I've written to and who've written to me, the people I've met.
- that even though I feel really ill, its nothing, nothing at all, to what other people have been through, for years, which gives me the chance to live my life more fully after I take on board these learnings.
- that because I stayed with a few existing threads, by existing friends, I got to a meet a whole other set of mse people, who are just as beautiful, seeing you guys on Greying's thread.

Wow. I mean seriously wow, Karmacat. This is such a powerful post. Thank you for writing it x

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Fortune_Smiles wrote: »

Nice to see you Karmacat - I wondered where you'd got to. Do take care of yourself.

Greying - I wish I could employ you as my personal chef. I'm sure I'd be much healthier.

Fortune x

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

Can we job share Greying as our personal chef please?

Nice to see you Karmacat :wave:
MSE is indeed a wonderful community

Me! a personal chef? Oooh I'd have the same job 'title' as all those lovely peeps who enter 'Chopped' (on Food Network)..... mmm.

Tell you what chaps, have a word with my agent....... oh darn! I don't have an agent :rotfl:Dear Fortune and Upsidedown Bear you cannot begin to imagine how good your comments have made me feel this evening

Piquant wrote: »

Lovely, lovely post karma

You make my day, everyday Greying, even though I don't post all the time, I read you morning and night. You lift my spirits. Thank you

Piq - you are one amazing lady. All I wish for you is happiness 'ever after' - so looking forward to your tales of 'moving day'. Fingers crossed it's coming in the perfect timeframe for you. Thanks for dropping by.

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

So, finally, Good Evening :hello:

I won't dwell on my day or what we had for dinner this evening if you don't mind. I won't report my NSD/AFD, but will quietly alter my signature later.

I didn't *know* Taxi as such. I'm a relative newcomer to the DFD board, and I've probably told you how it was Karmacat's diary title that 'lured me in' and I've not left since

Taxi was a stalwart on KC's thread - as KC was on Taxi's, so I *knew* Taxi via Karmacat's diary.

My one abiding memory of Taxi is the trip that she organised for her and her beloved JJ to take to LEGOLAND. Taxi organised everything, in true MSE fashion, getting terrific value for money, making sure of the accommodation and that they would see and do everything that they wanted to. The organisation of that trip was as important as the trip itself - which, I seem to remember, was declared a roaring success.

I'm minded of that now, and I'm thinking - on a very sad day - that perhaps that's the important thing to remember. It's not the destination of your journey that matters overall. Because ultimately, do we really have control over that? But if we remember to enjoy, relish, delight in and live the journey, haven't we made a life for ourselves? We'll of been having so much fun, learning so many things and meeting a whole host of interesting travellers along the way, that the destination won't concern us when we reach it.

Thank you so very much for popping in, reading and joining in with me on my journey. I appreciate it more than you will ever know.

RIP Taxi

Greying

Upsidedown_Bear

Taxi was indeed an amazing lady and I'm was really touched that Martin has posted at the beginning of her diary. Thank you Martin.

It's not the destination - it's the journey.

Karmacat

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

I didn't *know* Taxi as such. I'm a relative newcomer to the DFD board, and I've probably told you how it was Karmacat's diary title that 'lured me in' and I've not left since

Taxi was a stalwart on KC's thread - as KC was on Taxi's, so I *knew* Taxi via Karmacat's diary.

It seems so strange now to think of that ... mse was a lifesaver to me, not only because of getting me through a dodgy financial time but also showing me on a deep personal level that there were lots of people out there in the same position as I was, and that they were deep thinkers, or straight thinkers, or just plugging on and getting through, and we all enjoyed a laugh, we all cheered each other on, we all made it happen together. It was actually a magical time.

There was one weird bingo site we were all "working", and you had to walk your avatar to a table and chat with the people on the table. I sat with Hypno and Taxi one day, and thought, well, it doesn't get any better.

My one abiding memory of Taxi is the trip that she organised for her and her beloved JJ to take to LEGOLAND. Taxi organised everything, in true MSE fashion, getting terrific value for money, making sure of the accommodation and that they would see and do everything that they wanted to. The organisation of that trip was as important as the trip itself - which, I seem to remember, was declared a roaring success.

I'm minded of that now, and I'm thinking - on a very sad day - that perhaps that's the important thing to remember. It's not the destination of your journey that matters overall. Because ultimately, do we really have control over that? But if we remember to enjoy, relish, delight in and live the journey, haven't we made a life for ourselves? We'll of been having so much fun, learning so many things and meeting a whole host of interesting travellers along the way, that the destination won't concern us when we reach it.

RIP Taxi

So true. You don't have to paddle up the Amazon to have lived life to the full - Legoland can be it. And you know, JJ will be able to look back at how much his granma loved him in amazing detail, thats going to make a massive difference to him. And that will come from just writing a forum diary...

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

It's not the destination - it's the journey.