Comments on: Ahead to the Past http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=142 by Dr. Darrell White Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:21:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: darrellwhite http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=142&cpage=1#comment-985 darrellwhite Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:30:28 +0000 http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=142#comment-985 Very nice thoughts, Chris. "The present and future look all too bright for that..." I couldn't agree more. Thanks for dropping by! Very nice thoughts, Chris. “The present and future look all too bright for that…” I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for dropping by!

]]> By: Chris Lankford http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=142&cpage=1#comment-984 Chris Lankford Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:19:48 +0000 http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=142#comment-984 The old saying goes "you can't go home again"....and personally I would never want to. Scenario - A girl I knew as a kid (who treated me horribly in my teen years - as did many of my peers) popped up as a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend on Facebook....I discovered that she had just completed several grueling treatments for the cancer she had been suffering with. I reached out to her to offer words of encouragement, and I wished her well. She responded shortly thereafter thanking me for thinking of her and was confident she would beat the disease...and I hope and believe she will.... That was it....simple, to the point....going back does not necessarily mean enduring feeble-minded attempts to re-establish...it can just mean caring enough about our own humanity to touch someone, albeit briefly.... I don't know about you Dr. White...but I certainly would not want to reach back to Southbridge any deeper than that. The present and future look all too bright for that... ;) The old saying goes “you can’t go home again”….and personally I would never want to.

Scenario – A girl I knew as a kid (who treated me horribly in my teen years – as did many of my peers) popped up as a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend on Facebook….I discovered that she had just completed several grueling treatments for the cancer she had been suffering with. I reached out to her to offer words of encouragement, and I wished her well. She responded shortly thereafter thanking me for thinking of her and was confident she would beat the disease…and I hope and believe she will….
That was it….simple, to the point….going back does not necessarily mean enduring feeble-minded attempts to re-establish…it can just mean caring enough about our own humanity to touch someone, albeit briefly….
I don’t know about you Dr. White…but I certainly would not want to reach back to Southbridge any deeper than that. The present and future look all too bright for that…
;)

]]> By: Colin Hill http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=142&cpage=1#comment-437 Colin Hill Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:39:58 +0000 http://skyvisioncenters.com/blog/?p=142#comment-437 Bingo - Great article. It made me think about the two high school reunions that I went to, my 20th and 33rd...both were eventful in the fact that all those that I had idolized or despised actually showed up. It was very interesting to see how people had changed or not changed and it was very interesting to listen to their comments about me..many were,"we can not believe that you are still alive and actually working with troubled youth". The moment that I liked the most was when the schools most "popular" not so nice beautiful woman actually apologized for the way she treated me in high school...I thought what a beautiful gesture after 33 years of thinking that she was such a nasty person. Now we have Facebook and I keep getting invitations to be a "friend" or join a group of individuals from those from my past. I have decided that I am not joining those from my past in reminiscing about days gone by but connecting with the future...that sounds sort of flakey doesn't it? New situations and challenges interest me more now than being a "friend" on Facebook ( I actually have as my facebook picture "Abdula the Butcher" so it is harder to identify me). Thanks for getting me started. Always love your posts. Cheers Calgary Colin Bingo – Great article.
It made me think about the two high school reunions that I went to, my 20th and 33rd…both were eventful in the fact that all those that I had idolized or despised actually showed up. It was very interesting to see how people had changed or not changed and it was very interesting to listen to their comments about me..many were,”we can not believe that you are still alive and actually working with troubled youth”. The moment that I liked the most was when the schools most “popular” not so nice beautiful woman actually apologized for the way she treated me in high school…I thought what a beautiful gesture after 33 years of thinking that she was such a nasty person.

Now we have Facebook and I keep getting invitations to be a “friend” or join a group of individuals from those from my past. I have decided that I am not joining those from my past in reminiscing about days gone by but connecting with the future…that sounds sort of flakey doesn’t it? New situations and challenges interest me more now than being a “friend” on Facebook ( I actually have as my facebook picture “Abdula the Butcher” so it is harder to identify me).

Thanks for getting me started. Always love your posts.
Cheers
Calgary Colin

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