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Reminiscing ......................

March 08 2009

Before I post this I would like to make it clear ......... I am neither condeming nor condoning the behaviour I am about to speak of.... just purely making an observation :) ..... read into it what you will or just read it for what it is intended to be .... an observation Sitting on the sidelines and watching the antics of our beloved RHP family I am at times quite amused by the goings on of its members..... At times this family reminds me of a playground .... there are the 'cool kids' who swan around in all their perceived glory .. .. there are the satellite kids who hover around the cool kids hoping to be noticed and get to be included by them ..... there are the decided outsiders deemed to be so by the cool kids by some deed or action or word that is not taken as to be kool by them ...... there are the bullies who like to get their own way by being just that a bully (in this cyber world by using words rather than actions) ...... there are the watchers who just like to sit and ....... watch :) Then at other times the RHP family reminds me of the behaviour of my uni days in the late 70's ....... fun times to say the least (wink wink ) ..... in MY day (omg I sound like Methusala :O) we all hung out together as one big group of friends and had awesome fun together ... that fun included sharing partners with consent ..... having 3 way realtionships that worked well for everyone concerned ....... having our partners taken away from us by a 'friend' .... oh the tears that we shed for lost love but then we moved on fairly quickly to someone else in our group ....... in all of this we seemed to keep our friendships with each other although they were very strained at times but we seemed to get over our heartaches fairly quickly ... was this the resilience of youth on our side??? Watching the RHP family certainly makes me reminisce about my antics in my youth and to wonder if behaviours have changed or have we come around a big circle and are back at the beginning again?????

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RHP User

17 years ago

I can see changes happening within the "family" but do you really think its a circle? Any change within individuals usually involves a little turmoil and i don't think thats any different when a group changes as a whole. Whats the alternative? Live life in a straight line? Don't learn, grow, adjust at all? No thanks. I think everyone's prefference varies toward one ride or the other to different degrees but i for one lean towards the rollercoaster rather than the merry-go-round. Though even for me there's a limit lol. In my observation it seems like the RHP family passed through the playground and is now slowly graduating from uni. Some may be having a rough time, or enjoying the roller coaster but when we've all had enough of it and return to the merry-go-round i for one hope and suspect it will be an entirely different one that it was ;).

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RHP User

17 years ago

Circle of Life....

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RHP User

17 years ago

I think you have some good points and if i was an anthropologist it would be a good research topic. I suppose we have all at some stage gone thru most of the things you talk about and have learned a bit about ourselves (i hope). I perosnally find the lack of human contact in this site to be a bit intimidating. I would love to make friends with some of the people on this site but getting any response or even people reading emails i sent reminds me a little of schoolyard behaviour. IE: you arent cool enuff or whatever. I hope this improves or i may just not bother anymore and pull my hole in after me. Mikebike

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RHP User

17 years ago

I too think it is about change... change is hard... the forums are changing as more find a voice. I can only hope more people decide they enjoy posting after the Taskmaster comp :-D

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