I want to spend a couple minutes of your time with more talk of brotherhood - the name of the game at this site. We say it often enough, we talk about it on the forums, we even say it when we meet fellow quitters.
For better or worse, for those who have bought into our program, drank the Kool-Aid, and have allowed themselves to open up to their quit group, or the community at large, whether here or on FB or another other social media site, you have made friends that will not be forgotten easily. I mean, damn, I miss a post in my wife's group, even if I posted in my own group, and I got CBird climbing all up in my ass. But that's just it...we look out for each other, we care not just about your quit, but your adventure races, or your child's successes, or your views on how the world should be run, we care about you.
Today I asked a few groups to post up with a brother who had a tragedy occur in his world. This brother has been and still is instrumental in my quit. I look up to his strength and his ability to rebound from so much. Today, instead of me leaning on him, we allowed him to lean on us.
This is what we're about, boys and girls. Life is going to really suck sometimes. A dip will never make it better. And we can reach out in that way, or we can simply hold out our arms and embrace a brother who is hurting, and let them know we are there to support them, in any way we can.
Do you know your brothers and sisters here well enough to know when they need strength from the group? If not, find out how to get peoples' digits, be friends on FB, do whatever you have to do.
Let the brotherhood continue.
Quit on.
~Frazz
