Ok, some of you may be wondering why I posted a thread like this. I'm tired of people having hissy fits with each other over shit that doesn't really matter very much. One of my former poker players overdosed on heroin the other night. He got clean and had been for a little over a year. He got together with some of his old drug buddies and started up again. The bastards didn't even have the guts to call someone to let them know what happened and left him to die. About a year ago, I had some good friends lose their son basically the same way. They used to be a very outgoing and fun couple but now you can just see the life is drained out of them.
I guess I'm really lucky. No one in my family has a drug problem. I've not had to go through the emotional turmoil of losing someone like they have, but I can see what it has done to them.
These are the thing that really matter, REAL LIFE! Not the bitching and moaning that seems to take over most of the threads on this board. Once this kind of thing starts invading a thread, I quit reading. There may be a very important piece of information that I might miss because of the mindless "you're stupid", "well you're stupider" that gets cranked up way too many times. I've see arguments get started over TYPO's and because someone didn't use proper English. Things like that aren't that big of a deal. If you know that something you are going to say is going to fire someone up DON'T SAY IT!!! If you have a problem with someone on the board, ignore them. Prove to everyone that you're a better person than they are. Could you imagine if there was no internet and people really said these kind of things to each other on the street??? You couldn't walk out of your house without seeing a fist fight, or worse, every time you turned around.
All in all, just be nice to people. I have people that totally piss me off everyday but I just let it go. They're just not worth the effort to get into a pissing contest with them. I'd rather use me energy on my friends that I really care about. You never know what will happen. You could wake up tomorrow and they're gone.
Ray
P.S. I know I kind of rattled on but give me a break, ok?????
