Posted by Nite Owl
on 12/20/2008, 2:43 am, in reply to "Confessing My Sins"
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Bah, Drakena. No one ever forgets this place, really. How do you forget your hometown?
I find your "confession of sins" as you put it both at the same time endearing and honestly comical. Maybe my brain's just warped over the years, but I don't recall you ever being a problem child around here. Best as I can remember, you were a cherished member of the team--or to put it less sappily, one of the best of "the guys" (no gender offense intended). Everyone that I know here loved you to pieces, and still does!
We all did some silly things that maybe we regret back in those days. Eight years ago, almost nine? We all were immature, or grouchy, or emo, or God knows what. Tee hee. I remember thinking about how bad Jessie used to be, and when I recollect just what a twerp *I* was, it makes me giggle.
We're all guilty of those sins you mention. Jealousy, misunderstandings, you name it. Maybe that's why we all bonded the way we did, even though none of us hang out together anymore. We were all just some flawed human beings, children trying to understand how to grow up. Maybe some of us found out, maybe some of us didn't. Maybe I'm just a rambling old coot.
But through all my years, I've never been so tethered to one place or group of people. In one year, it'll have been an entire decade since I came here. Half my life. Pretty crazy stuff in my eyes.
And yet no matter how thinly we all disperse, how many different directions we all go in, you and I and all the others will still be blood in the water. Part of one unique family that no one can ever really leave or enter. As long as just one of us can manage to hang in there, so can all of us.
Yeah, to strangers on the Internet, I guess you do have sins to which you need to confess, Drakena. But to your family, you have none. And that's what you still are, to me.
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