I take your hand Tomato. What I noticed was how well liked you are here. People really reached out to you and seem to miss you.

I struggle with the same things you mention though I don't think am as well liked here and that is my insecurity. I know I would like to lurk more but feel compelled to respond when I read things here. I may just practice lurking for a while as an exercise.

Glad you are back and please try not to be so hard on yourself. People here really do enjoy your posts!

(((RT))) and I thought I'd made second guessing an art form!!

RT

RT and Turtle
I like you both!!

Hey RT, we even went onto your "hello peeps" thread to make sure you were okay. We care.

oh yeah, doubt is my middle name!
you're welcome here and you're liked here and you invent lively threads. people tend to pick up on things like arrogance, and if they thought you were being arrogant i doubt you'd get the wonderful responses on your threads that you do. so, rest assured you're valued and heard here and people would miss you if you fell silent. (((RT)))

I think ALL of the things you have said - creating threads, commenting, being a part of the community - ALL OF IT, is fantastic and more of us should be doing what you are doing.

We all "own" this community and our contributions make the community and we can start our own journal threads, pet threads - anything we want (within reason and the rules, I guess....) .

Keep doing more of exactly what you have been doing.

Thank you RT and Starlight. I like you guys as well!

Red Tomato,
I have noticed how wise you are and helpful. You answer and give great things to think about so I hope you won't go away again. You answer way more than I do...I'm just too caught up and wish I was better. What I'm saying is you're very valuable to myself and others and it's great to feed the human connection...this is where people do understand each other.


Hopeful