To All :
Polvie - Thanks for the interesting quote. I had to read it 4 times to understand it halfway <ggg>. And, if the 28,000 post was staring me in the face, I have no doubt my computer would lock up on me instantaneously.
B I A, Dealer, Piscologist and others.....thanks for the very kind thoughts.
Rose - Thanks to you as well.
Depy - Sorry for coming off a tad harsh on you if thats how it came out. I know your post was, in a way truthful, but also posted with a humorous intent and not intended to offend me. I know alot of like depends on attitude and I know my attitude, for many reasons, is not what it once was. Additionally, the sharing of positives is something I greatly look forward to being able to again one day, I just have to wait until something positive happens. I am sure you and others know me going back to the DELL days. Man, you would have mistaken me for RR. I was the most upbeat and positive person around. The market? Ha, I ate the market for lunch. The houses, the manipulation and etc....I used it to my advantage and did very, very well. I was the guy running around, giving the guy like me now, advice, and telling him things will get better and etc, etc.....Obviously, alot has happened since that time to change my attitude, and I am hoping and praying the old keith eventually surfaces again sometime.
Tom - I have always admired and respected you. I have not always agreed with you, but then again, I have no desire to kiss up to you or anybody else. I say what I mean. As you said, I am honest. If I disagree, I will not hesitate to say so...in a respectful manner, I hope. Again, I have always admired and respected you and that is why you can't get rid of me so easily <ggg>. Your faith is amazing to me....even when you are wrong, you have the attitude that RR talks about and that everyone should have in the stock market and life in general. It's been a rough year for me and attitude and faith have been things that have been hard to come by, but hopefully, as you say, things will be different one day.
Clappy - Thanks for the thoughts and thanks for being you...you and polvie seem to always make me laugh, even on a bad day. You mention riding out this dark cloud and that the market will be getting better. Let me just say this, and I think many of you already suspect this. My current troubles/attitude...whatever you wish to call it, is a culmination of things....not just the market. Yes, it is very frustrating to be sitting here and after kicking serious ass for a couple 2 or 3 years, I was sitting pretty, only to watch it all go down the toilet in one fell swoop. Could have paid off everysingle thing I own and still had 3 times the cash I have now left over, with zero debt. Instead, I have very little money left over, and a pile of debt a mile high. However, money is not everything. I am fixing to turn 36 years old. Last year, I was diagnosed with lung disease...very rare for someone my age. My mother has had MS for years and has been bed ridden for the last 2. Beginning of this year, I lost my cat who was as much a son to me as a real son would be. His death was a 2 month long tortorous affair that still haunts me every day. What we thought was a bad mouth/nasal infection, turned out to be cancer, but not before we went two months putting him thru hell and back trying to get him better...and I think hell was a vacation as compared with what he actually went thru before we found out it was cancer and ended it for him. I had a business deal go sour....over $100k ripped off. Received a judgement, but will never get a penny. I paid the lawyers plenty, though. My grandmother died a few months ago. We tried flying to new york for the funeral, but our flight got cancelled due to weather and we missed it. Then I found out, my Aunt had milked my grandmother out of her life savings and also stole the inheritance she left for me, my brother and my bed ridden and broke mother. I am very into climbing, yet I am coming down with some form of arthritus or carpal tunnel syndrome which is preventing me from my passion. My hands and knuckles are all swelled up and doc said my climbing days will be very limited. I've had a couple of freinds die unexpectedly.....My dryer died and almost started a fire but luckily we were here, my refrigerator died ( $1700 and we got 6 years out of it )but we didnt know it. 2 Days later with every single thing melted, spoiled and flowing thru our house, did we finally catch on. A pipe busted in my bathroom while I was gone. came home to a flooded house. If you've ever flooded your house, then you know what a nightmare it is............I could go on and on and on, but why bother....the above is just a small partial listing of some of the type of shit I have been going thru the last 6 months to a year and again, thats just a partial list. I could fill up pages and pages of all the shit that seems to be happening...... My point simply is that life is very odd sometimes. Flying high, sitting on top of the world one minute financially, personally, healthwise and etc, and then within a 6 month period, the walls literally collapsed on every single front.... I just have never experienced anything like this. Crises happens all the time, but never in my life have I experienced so much diversely negative crap in such a short period. Attitude?? Man, I am at the point where I hesitate getting out of bed every day because I am wondering what will happen next, yet i cant sleep anymore, so why stay in bed.......
Anyway, I realize this is another morbid post, and I also realize that not everybody gives a shit about listening to all your problems. However, I did want to respond to at least try and explain why my attitude and faith has changed. I have no doubt that some of you that know me from the dell and aol days are wondering " can this be the same person????". Well it is. Life has a funny way of working itself out and all I can say is it's been a rough year, I apologize for being such a basket case and I hope things get better.
Thanks to everybody....it's funny, but I didnt receive a single negative post this morning. Every person was thoughtful and caring. Just goes to show how special aplace the porch really is.
best to all
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