Alphonsus's Journal

Well, I have my CL badge now.  They asked me out of the blue if I was interested in the position a little while ago.  I am very honored they chose me.

I have to say that, with everything else that is going on in my life, that I wouldn't have accepted the position if I wasn't determined to do things exactly the same as I do them now.  At the moment this badge comes with no power whatsoever, so it's going to be mostly just a hassel at this point.  People will see me differently.  They can't help that.  They will expect me to be more than the average josephine on here because of that badge.  I plan to be exactly who I was, and be as irreverently funny about things as ever.  I'm not going to make much of an effort to be on here more than I was, because I have a difficult life on the other side of this screen.  That's gonna have to be good enough.  It was good enough for them to choose me in the first place.  They liked who I was.  Hell,*I* liked who I was.  So just being the same should be just fine.  :)

Despite all the gripes and the bitching, all the trolls, all the drama and all the people pretending to be things that they are not, I still consider DS to be a great place.  It has given me support and a reality check, and helped me see things from a new and necessary perspective.  It changes lives, and I know that there is more than one person who would not be alive now if it weren't for this web site.  It isn't the bad things that define this website.  It is the good people...the ones who have learned that the best way of helping themselves sometimes is to put out their hand and help another.  It is hard to imagine how powerful a virtual hug can be sometimes to someone who hasn't felt any affection for years.  There's a magic in that.

I feel a love for the people of this place.  We are just a collection of strangers trying to survive the best that we can.  Some take more than others.  Some give more than others.  From each according to his ability...to each according to his need.  Marxism sucks as a way of running a society, but it works fine in a social network such as DS.  Just so long as we don't forget that we all need as well.

Love and peace everyone.  May you find the joy in your day.  It is there; it always is.  We sometimes just need to peek through the armor surrounding our hearts sometimes to see it.

Steve