Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 6/15/04 <red735i@earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)> thoughtfully wrote: > >I feel this is a family of a special kind. We feel loss for those we do not >know, never met, or otherwise had no real relationship with. Are we >softies? Are we losing it? No. We feel the pain of our members as if it >were our own brother/sister/friend. > >A period of reflection? Maybe. Maybe it is all ganging up on me. > No....not softies....human. On-line communities like these are "hot mediums". They are also rare and difficult to form. People share quite openly here. Yeah we fight and bitch and complain and get our drawers in a bunch. But it's SAFE to do that here. It all blows over, and we (mostly) respect each other in the morning. So it's very natural to experience very real feelings when bad things happen to members of our community. Those feelings, that passion, is our strength. And it's what makes it possible to write to the group about the passing of one's cat or dog or spouse: because even though many of us have never met...we still CARE. That's the important thing. The human thing. The essential thing. Adam