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Blogs > wandering54 > Does life begin at 51?

Watching  

wandering54 69M
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5/11/2007 11:07 pm

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5/21/2007 1:14 am
Watching

Watching is something we all do, with the webcams, blogs and new member matches. We look in on old friends and friends to be. Because this is an adult site, most of the time we're looking for a reason, looking for something exciting, titillating or sometimes prurient. We all have screen names to conceal our identity, a little like Clark Kent in that way I suppose, I know that in early adolescence I always wished I had x-ray vision, provided I could control it enough to see through clothing instead of skin and bone.

In watching and reading blogs here, I've started to notice that the real people are shining through, still concealed behind their screen personas but the caring and concerned hearts are showing, through the tats and the skin, past the sexy lingerie and the leather, and beyond the fantasy.

Things like V-Tech have people, particularly in university communities like I am a part of, called upon to be more aware of the vulnerability of the young people we have in our care. We had this after 9-11 too, because the impact it had on the entire country could potentially be reflected in this little town in the midst of the corn and bean fields and boarded up coal mines.

It makes me think about this community, the NoStrings community, the alt.com community, whatever community besides this we are a part of. People here are sometimes lonesome, and loneliness is a very vulnerable state.

I think we should all try to be aware of our friends, and take notice of little clues that hint at despair. Thoreau wrote in Walden that "the great mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, confirmed desperation becomes resignation". I tend to fall back on Thoreau and the Bible in thoughtful moments.

Then maybe we should try to interrupt that "quiet desperation" before a good friend, or even a casual acquaintance, becomes resigned to something harmful, to themselves or someone else.

And like the Sarge used to say at turnout time on Hill Street Blues, "hey, let's be careful out there".

Theflinkychick 113F
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5/20/2007 2:17 am

 I'll be careful...
Not all who wander are lost.


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