Why are you here?

It has to be the same reason why most people are here. For the luckiest people they are here because of the friends they care about and the sense of a community that honestly cares about them.

For the less fortunate they are here for the virtual sense of community and the belief that people may care about them.

It's not just about the trivia or the music. It's about your wife dieing or a child that gets hurt or a husband that is murdered by an unknown assailant or your home reduced to cinders. It's about real life and death in your family as well as the world at large.

This community, be it real or virtual to you, becomes something more over time and can disappoint to a degree that is disproportionate to the actual facts because the community you emotionally rely on, might sometimes spurn or condemn you.

Sometimes you can feel how stupid "they" are or be confounded by the degree of sophistication, intelligence and knowledge of a certain subject.

Being so invested in the support of a caring community that wanes and ebbs like the tide is not without its costs, but overall it is beneficial.

It's like the end of Annie Hall when Woody explains that his brother goes to a psychiatrist because he believes he has an imaginary chicken. The Dr. asks why the whole family indulges in pretending there is this imaginary chicken, and Woody says "because we need the eggs".


For myself I know this to be true. I can go 5 years without a PM which is less than half the time I have been posting. I know my spontaneous dyslexic writing looks to be a shambles, while the ideas are sound the intent is often ignored or critizied at best.
But I know I need the eggs so I try to do better orjust storm off for awhile.

So whether you have egg on your face or you are told to go suck an egg, we all need the eggs.

Happy New Year Joe,
Don H