**They’re even urging someone to continue to take a stand with a “No retreat! No surrender!” type of false bravado.**

I hate that. It’s like “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT” and you’re like “THANKS, FNUKCER! If it were that easy, if that were all there was to it I would, ya chump!” Gods, do people *really* think that some people are so weak and stupid that they have to hear “keep fighting no matter what!!!” crap from people? It’s like being told to “push” when you’re in labor, but your eyeballs are popping out because you’re pushing so hard! “No shit, dumbass - can’t you see the burst capillaries in my EYEBALLS!?!”

**They mean well, but it’s a type of false bravado in the sense that the person they’re cheering on has everything to lose, and they don’t. They’ll read how his world fell apart right up to when he inevitably becomes a 404 page, and they can then switch to a “What kind of [whatever] are you?” quiz at quizzilla with a click of their mouse.**

Yep. It’s like everyone in the world is brave as Superman when they have nothing to lose (or gain) by it. It’s just a bunch of shallow people spewing trite words because it’s “the right thing to do” in these situations, and it makes me sick.

Ask the person what YOU can do - if you know them anyway, and if they say NOTHING then just listen. Try to just commiserate with them and empathize with them. “JUST FIGHT” is not what people always need to hear when they’re going through hard times. Sometimes, just telling them to do what they think is best, even if it’s to quit fighting is the best thing to do.

Remember kids, “What’s right isn’t always popular and what’s popular isn’t always right.”

Sometimes, a big FIGHT will mess your whole World up *worse* than coming to terms with the situation and just finding a way to deal with it as best you can. Wanna know how I know? Ask me, I’ll tell ya. Boy will I tell ya.

That’s all.

(P.S.: LOL! I love this: “We’re behind you 100 feet!” but I would have written it this way: “We’re behind you 100 Per cent (erm, per cent is insensitive asstalk for feet.) but then, I would want to be CERTAIN than the irony was lost on no one, thus even the most dense would have a shot at getting the point.

Hmmm, not the nicest comment after not commenting for a LONG time, I’ll grant you - but I wager you appreciate the blunt, honest kind anyway.
~Kimberly

I keep getting the urge to say fuck it and just go off on my own merry little way no matter what people say. I simply don’t understand how people can be so cold and callous. Of course, part of my problem is that I am empathetic and hurt when others are hurting.

But hey, I’m a (mostly) God-believing (usually) Republican dude… they already have me tuned out and dismissed as a “sheeple” that believes in “fairy tales”. Unless I’m agreeing with them, of course, then I’m right and part of the team.

It seems all they want to do is bitch about it rather than take any kind of action.
I think less input from me over there is best.
I’m seen as just a pest there, anyway.

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Kimberly/Deb… I kinda meant it to be a little fuzzy and oblique, as it applies to many situations (including some of the hell you two have recently been through).

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“Sometimes, a big FIGHT will mess your whole World up *worse* than coming to terms with the situation and just finding a way to deal with it as best you can. Wanna know how I know? Ask me, I’ll tell ya. Boy will I tell ya.”

DING! DING! DING! Kimberly gets it.

“Pride goeth before a fall, and a haughty spirit before destruction”

Oops, there I go with that Bible stuff again! :0)

although, I don’t know what’s worse: having someone tell you what you “must” do without even knowing the situation, or making assumptions about you because you’re doing badly and not bothering to ask why you’re doing badly in the first place…

(heh…can you tell I just had my review at work?)

Hope all else is cool in your corner of the woods.

“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. ”

Hell, small prices must be paid when people are lying and dying.

There’s a big difference between a tactical retreat and surrender. I’d never suggest surrender.

I just wanted to do, what I wish people had done for me a long time ago. But I just keep butting heads with people that just… don’t… get it.

Uh oh… I’m having another John Coffey moment: “I’m sorry for what I am!!!”

Hehehehehe!