words

So Blessed!
on 4/27/09 5:05 am

Words have the power to heal or to wound.

Even though intellectually I can tell myself that it’s just words on a computer screen, I do acknowledge there are real flesh and blood people out there who could be positively or negatively affected by these words that I type.

Some folk can blow off BAF as entertainment and what they read here will be totally inconsequential to them. To others, especially those who may have been isolated from years of being morbidly obese, this might be their only source of social interaction and support through their weight loss journey. Some people may be a bit fragile. As a rule, I tend to tread lightly because I have no wish to wound.

Sometimes people misinterpret another’s words because they are not accustomed to that person’s sense of humor or their communication style. Sometimes people seem angry and defensive because they're hurt from being picked on all their lives and this is the only coping mechanism that they know. Looking back at some of the posts from the previous week or so, I feel like a combination of these may have been in play and it has escalated into a most regrettable conflict.

I will try my best to give my fellow BAF posters the benefit of the doubt and I ask that you do the same for me. If I post anything that hurts or offends, please ask me for clarification because I would not purposely do that.

I will also say this: I might disagree with you about something, but I will never disrespect you.

Take care.

Krayzsexykool
on 4/27/09 5:19 am - Douglasville, GA

RNY on 09/14/09

Krayzsexykool likes this. (they need to have that on here like FB.)

I have an @$$h*le, therefore I have an opinion. or two... or forty.

Birdman D.
on 4/27/09 5:23 am - Nappytown

RNY on 11/05/04

BIRD PIMP'EN AIN'T EASY!!!

Lavender
on 4/27/09 5:24 am - Northern, CA

Love you girlllllll

HelpMeRhonda !!
on 4/27/09 5:25 am - J. R. Ewing, TX

RNY on 07/10/02

Dimple Donna
on 4/27/09 5:40 am - Chicago, IL

RNY on 08/22/03

Now, if the rest of them can 'get a load of this' post...we MAY go back to being the greatest support group on OH!!!

Thanks for the beautiful WORDS...WORDS THAT ELEVATE, NOT DENEGRATE!

DD

I choose to love myself, live life to the fullest, and encourage others to liberate themselves!

(deactivated member)
on 4/27/09 5:54 am - Sweet Dreams lives in , PA

RNY on 09/15/04

anewme_2009
on 4/27/09 6:42 am

Nicely put my dear!

"I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking." by George MacDonald

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