[GreenKeys] Methinks I am wasting my time... or am I ?

[Don Robert House]

Hmmm...  Not a single reply...   Perhaps I should not bother to write  
any more of my memories.

Email has an inherit problem.  It tends to be either send only or  
receive only...

No expression...  no images for the most part.  The written word can  
convey different meanings.

Readers can easily misunderstand the writer's intentions.

As time goes on more people have less time to share and more things  
they have to do...

A wise man once told me that "No one cares how much you know, until  
they know how much you care."


I remember a good friend that always answered my emails.  We usually  
had lots of memories to share.

We communicated at least once every week.  Then one span of time for  
two weeks and then nothing.

Another two weeks passed.

His daughter called me and said that he was "gone."

I asked some more questions and told her of our mutual experiences as  
designers for IBT and Gen. Telco.

She told me that I was one of only a very few people that communicated  
with him.  He had lost his third

sales job in a row and was depressed.  One day he drove to a rental  
agency and rented a small trailer.

Then he went to the liquor store and bought a six pack of beer.  It  
was winter and he brought a heater

with him.  He parked the car and trailer and got inside of the  
trailer, started up the heater and only got

half way through his second beer.


I have always wondered if I could have made a difference if he would  
have contacted me that last week

just one more time...

I miss him.  I sent all the photos I had of him over the years to his  
widow.  I never heard from his family

again.

Sometimes it takes more than emails to truly communicate with one  
another.  Especially in Winter.

Do you know that 85 percent of men over the age of 60 suffer from  
depression.  If you feel you are not

totally "yourself"  see a good doctor.


And now for something different...

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Don
K9TTY

Tracer of open circuits and lost causes...