SharonR wrote:dede4wd wrote:I feel as if I've been neglecting this place and I feel bad about it...but 3 jobs and going back to school along with the fact that I couldn't get myself back on program contributed to it.
It is also so hard because of the journals...before the journals, I could pop in and answer a bunch of posts and keep up with everyone's progress and help where I could with my cheerleading, but now I sometimes feel I don't have time to pop my head in everyone's journal and check on each person I care about (because there's so many I'd love to keep up with). Then I feel bad because I have time to check in with a few people on their journals, but not others.
There's new people I haven't met yet that I'd like to. I'll do my best to check in as often as I can and hope everyone is doing well and holler if I can help cheer you on and I so appreciate the cheering on everyone is giving me for my re-start!
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I totally agree, it's the only place people seem to post these days.
Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! and
DITTO!!
Forgive me for not being on more, but that says it -- it takes too long to read through lives instead of issues, and I really do care about every life here, I just don't have the time it takes to wade through it all. (It takes me about 4 times longer to read than average readers, particularly black-on-white, and let's not get into how long it takes to write a response.)
I miss the old pre-journal days. I've often wondered if it would have made a difference if we had established from the get-go that folks NOT respond to each other in journals. On the other hand, it has sure helped a lot of folks with one-on-one type of stuff. But, then, when statements came up in other threads that related back to posts in journals, particularly if it was oblique, I was completely lost and Mike had to explain things to me.
Additionally, and with thanks for those who've urged me to post more, often in my own journal, I don't know what to say. My struggles seem like the same old record and I don't feel they bear repeating. I'm generally a private person, but one wouldn't necessarily know it on here. Or maybe you do. Or maybe you think I'm simply aloof or disconnected or uncaring.
Then again, this may simply be a reactionary ramble at 4:00 a.m.
Nonetheless, as Summergirl stated, this still feels like a comfortable and safe circle of friends and loved ones even if some of stools are empty. But I still miss being able to sign on twice in the same day and seeing something new NOT in the journals.