Reply #52: No, you don't get it...

[VelmaD]

I have been holding back so far on this thread trying to be a nice person and I am probably going to fall down on that with this post.

You know NOTHING about me. I don't owe you an explanation of what I do on behalf of the "invisible". I do everything I can to help within my means, even if it's just little things like holding a door or smiling or saying good morning to people that other people don't see. But no listing of what I have done or do is going to make you happy. You've already made up your mind.

You also know NOTHING about what I'm going through right now and I don't owe you an explanation about that either.

What you need to grasp is that empathy is not a finite resource. There is no reason that I can't have empathy for the "invisible" people we've been talking about and still have some left for people who are a little bit better off financially or physically but are having a hard time of it emotionally. That's what I came here for today. I have people who care about me here in the Lounge and I hoped I could bring my unhappiness here and get a little bit of understanding. Understanding or course being one of those hallmarks of being a liberal.

Frankly I'm at a loss for why you even bothered to reply to this thread. No one held a gun to your head and made you be obnoxious to someone who was already having a bad day.