Well, I feel a little better finding notes from other OD refugees, a couple of whom were friends over there. I visualize us around a fire, warming our hands and remembering the fine homes we had built over years, decades, with OD.
Whoever says that Internet relationships are not as good as face-to-face cannot possibly understand the enormity of "watching" somebody's life grow over a 10-12 year period, "hearing" their most private thoughts and feeling their trials with them. True, relationships are different in here. Masks are off and I suppose different types of masks are up, but there is true intimacy and absolutely true care, grief at loss and joy with others' successes.
Having OD close down has caused me to do so much contemplating about life and how amazing it is. I was/am friends with at least three women I knew from when they were high school age who are now grown and in careers. I was/am friends with women who were childless who at the time we met who now have children or have a child on the way. What a miracle.
I had/have friends who got married (and at least one who got divorced).
I lost a friend. I really miss her, so do many others. I see their comments just like I still noted her long after she passed.
And, of course, I had friends who disappeared and I always wondered how their lives turned out.
A handful of friends became friends outside of OD and I am so happy about that. It feels sort of like two worlds meshed and I could trust these people enough to hold my secrets and they could trust me the same way.
It is amazing to me that cyber- reality can be so real.
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