When i first started making bricks and writing on Big White Wall i was still in a very difficult place in my own life. Through others listening and what to call it - random acts of kindness by strangers - i feel like a different person. I feel that i can express whatever is sitting inside of me and someone will hear me and respond well - so that i feel heard and valued and able to face what is happening in my life with a new confidence and hope. This morning when i woke i found someone who a number of us have been talking with here had gifted me a brick - and it was such a powerful and beautiful message that i found myself in my garden with tears pouring down my face as dawn broke. And there have been others - PMs with people and conversations on their bricks and on their issues that have helped me look at my life differently. And now i have some friends - and some like s1 and Brown Bear and Bill who  i feel like i have known my whole life - and with whom i have shared so much. I have many friends offline but this is something different, And i realise that i would hope that everyone who comes here finds what i have - unconditional listening, love and support - for all that we struggle with offline - to help find a place in that offline world where we feel  stronger and more whole in who we are. I believe this is what we can offer one another with in a selfless way that shows our love for one another and the world at large. Thank you, Roze

Roze, I find myself looking forward to your contribution on any talkabout. Your contrib to "what would you say to your father" damn near brought me to tears.

I find the wall is a good place for me, but it's you folk out there that make it so.

Keep up the good work all of you. Your compassion, understanding and willingness to listen is refreshing in this dog eat dog world.

Hello mbmac - very good to have you here. I think a great way of meeting people is to look at bricks that speak to you and comment on them; engage in talkabouts that mean something to you - or start one of your own; look at the profiles of people that catch your attention by clicking on their usernames; and send people a private message if you want to open a private conversation with them. Feels to me like there are three levels at which you can engage - very privately through PMs; openly on talkabouts or more intimately on bricks. Let us know how you get along.

hello roze  yes i have really enjoyed reading  these posting and agree with all the kind thoughts  you are a very kind person and the wall is  a real brick in the new wall  i read a lot but cant always find the words to reply so if i move along with a snails pace and time passes i will get there.

so thank your for your support  and blessing of 'loving kindness ' to all my new friends...:)

boho

Hey el m - that is so good to here. Since you can't see the bricks i want to share something i just saw by WillAlwaysWonder which is a comment on her really powerful brick which is 'without all of our bricks The Wall would not stand'. It really caused me to pause and think just how true those words are. Each one of our emotions creates The Wall that is a loud message to the world about the importance of expressing what we feel! Thanks a lot WillAlwaysWOnder! Rx 

I only come to the wall occasionally, but whenever I do I am made to feel welcomed. I'm not sure how I came to know of the Big White Wall, but I think it came to me for a reason...it may not always help me in my times of need, but I hope I'm here when someome else needs me.

Unionmaid, your post prompted me to share something.   I have been around the wall for a little while but only started posting in the last few weeks.   For a long while I kept seeing the word UM included in posts and thought how odd but nice and informal that people are including their thinking aloud, you know, oh um, or hi um.   After a while the penny dropped that it wasn't um but UM...you.  I have to admit I felt pretty dumb!

 I see the abbreviation so often now that it just goes to show how important you have become to the wall and people on it.  When I read your posts which are full of compassion and good sense it is easy to see why.

I guess like most of us you arrived here for your own reasons with you own needs but you certainly make a great contribution.

Meercat x

Yes, I've been here, after a desultory start, since late last year.  I don't think the Wall has changed me or the way I relate to the off-line world but it has made a difference in that I feel I belong to something and that I have an ongoing interest in the many friends I have made here and in the 'news' that makes it so interesting.  I have come to know some people better than I know many of my off-line friends/aquaintances.  But its strange that I would probably not have the confidence to meet even those I know really well.  UM seems to have a different personality here from the one off-line.  I think I'm a wee bit more serious here than I am for real, but otherwise not very different - at least that's what I think.  I'd say its changed my life in that I have more purpose, something to work at but it hasn't changed me.

Have just read the message posted by roze which summarizes everything I feel about this website; as previously mentioned have only been using it since Monday of this week and already I feel I know roze; wolfie as if they are permanently and unconditionally in my life.   It is making me realise that it is support, comfort and understanding that I need.

I log on during my working day when I am struggling and what a difference it is making.  I do not care about getting into trouble logging on to the website during my working day; it is the quality of life that is important.

This website allows us to eloquently voice all our fears, anxieties, stresses, depressions without have a judgement made; the feedback is all positive, comforting, reassuring.  Bless all your cotton socks for contributing.   Hope I can reciprocate one day  when I am out of my current black hole.

Hugs and best wishes

KB xxxx

thats what i love, enjoy , hunger for, is this  way we can express our self in ful rich colourful  language, straight from the heart/soul.thankyou.

boho:)

Let this wonder world of BWW, which we all have a hand in creating, be no insubstantial illusion which might suddenly evaporate, so that I will fall further than I ever have before....because, being her, I have risen higher than I have ever done before.

Let the experience of meeting, being with, open to and opening up to the people all around me here, be the catalyst I have needed so long, all my life in fact, to point me to and walk with me along, what should be the wonderful journey of life...

Let me be alive, thanks to BWW

-Mebenji.