@tehwatever
At least I am personally, as a human being, happy that I have reached anyone at all. And no, you’re not just anyone to me. You just have to believe me right now. I know how hollow such phrases may sound in the digital age. This makes you a special person in my eyes, because my opinion doesn’t seem to disappear so easily into the void. It gives me a spark of hope back to humanity. And for that I thank you very much. :-)
Well, I don’t expect anyone to share my opinion. I dislike the assumption, however, that everything we say just goes unheard. Unfortunately, I, too, don’t always respond to everything I get said or read every day. It depresses me a lot sometimes. But when I want to react, it’s often too late. I would like people to react more often and more honestly to what they read. At least on a site that means a lot to all of us. But nowadays it’s seemingly casual chick that we ignore everything that we can’t find an answer to ourselves. But the least we should be allowed to expect is a simple one: I don’t know what to say about it. ;-)
Well, I can’t say much about my ability to speak English. I do my best, but I’m sure I often make many semantic and grammatical mistakes. I’m not an English native speaker, but I think my voice should at least somehow make someone hear. That you’re reacting to it is enough proof to me that there is someone who is willing to listen to me in spite of my mistakes. And for that alone, I owe you my heartfelt thanks.
I am aware that I am quite a jabberer online as much as in the RL. But the fact that not everything I say just disappears means a lot to me and motivates me to at least not give any nonsense from me in the future. Or rather, to say something at all. Very often I think to myself, don’t say anything, don’t think anything, don’t feel anything… and then my heart and soul hurt again. So often you don’t want to say anything, just because you’re afraid that everyone else will just say “Oh, what an idiot!” or - which I personally find worse - just punish you with collective
silence.
It’s not good human behavior. Yeaj, I know no one can always have an answer to everything. Some things are annoying, some things are just embarrassing. But other people, and this is how I see every single icon, every avatar, every other person so anonymous, is a human being in spite of everything. And just ignoring them, even though we are a digital community here, so often just seems wrong to me.
Yes, I do. I, too, am often unable to answer. Just because sometimes I don’t have the words. Or because the content is just garbage. Or that one or two sentences are not enough to pre-empt feelings, emotions and real interest in a thing. Language, regardless of one’s nationality, means reaching out to someone else. And you, sir, grabbed my verbal hand. That’s what I owe you my eternal respect for this. And because I once had the opportunity to discuss international, non-native language issues, and yet we will all remain a digital community after all. Hip, hip, hooray to the fact that, despite everything, we are in a position to somehow overcome the language barriers and the distances between us. ;-D
