monty42 wrote:Let's make this discussion a bit more interesting, shall we? [...] Go!
I've written several snarky responses to this, over the past minutes. Then, I realized, I was being snarky because this situation genuinely affects me and my parents, and I am
actually afraid for
them, for real reasons.
Seeing even
one attempt at this being made into another "lets stir things up" subject, seems to have made me angry. Because I'm only human. And because I am, genuinely, afraid -- among many other things, for the elderly people I work with and young kids I care about.
But I don't like being snarky. I didn't like seeing myself write,
Snarky Käpälä wrote:I guess indeed you might be safe because you don't have, close to the fray, a family which includes small kids and/or (grand)parents who are ailing. For that seeming lack of loved ones, I envy you; and for the ease with which you are able not to worry about your fellow people.
I guess that was the anger speaking. For a second, I even took offense at the OP seemingly just asking about US playgroups -- but it probably wasn't meant that way. I'm obviously just not myself, right now.
So, while I felt compelled (on the previous page) to being open about my situation and feelings -- and even somehow, between the lines, asking for support from some of my friends here?
Stupid! -- now I don't feel comfortable in this topic any more.
This is why I have deleted both of those previous posts.
Feel free now, to ridicule other people's real feelings -- and their fear for their
real family.
(OK. Still snarky -- but less so.)