weemoby
Well-known member
What a brave post Adi.I have been reflecting on this thread with some difficulty. I have re-read my contributions to it a few times. I've been a member of this board and its previous iterations for just about 20 years now and have always enjoyed robust debate on the understanding that it was only ever heated discussion. This feels very different. Whilst I can't see anything repulsive or anything which I particularly regret, the effect I have clearly had on another poster has given me pause for thought. I don't agree with him on the subject matter or his interpretation of my posts but nevertheless I am not prepared to continue to make anybody feel that way. I have been personally touched by suicide and attempted suicide six times in my life and the thought that what I write on here might make someone's day a little bit harder or more challenging or might contribute to those kind of feelings isn't tolerable to me. So I've decided not to contribute for now. I shall continue to read the board but that's it for now I think.
I thought long and hard about whether to post this because I didn't want to make it about me or to trigger an adverse response (which might be inevitable) but I thought it might just serve as a useful reminder that we perhaps need to be a bit more careful with the words we choose or the manner in which we present our arguments. That's what I am going to think about.
I too have been knocking around FMTTM for c.20yrs and the one thing I have learnt (for the benefit of my own delicate mental health) is to avoid posting on what I perceive to be argumentative threads. Mainly these are political and, of course, Covid/ lockdown ones.
In my humble opinion, all that happens on those types of threads is that folk bunker down in their own opinions and no one really benefits from the discourse.
Anyway, what do I know? Take care one and all and hopefully the new dynamic Boro will make us all happy.
UTB