Posted by Racer on October 27, 2000, at 16:37:04
In reply to Re: Just be yourself » Rzip, posted by Greg on October 27, 2000, at 11:10:05
Greg is popular here, both for the reasons he mentioned above and for a few others:
Greg quotes the true philosophers, like Popeye, and assists us in our search for Truth, Love, Light and Spinach.
It helps that he has a sense of humor he shares with us.
Greg is very generous with his time, in responding thoughtfully to posts, and his emotions, by caring about what others are going through.
Maybe Greg is smart, too, but I think that's not really why he's popular. I think it's nice that he is, but mostly it's the caring and generosity that make him popular.
And as a note to Rzip, I think the most important point in all this is that he isn't self-referent in his posts. It sounds as though you're still in that phase of life or depression where a lot of the world revolves around you. That's not a slam, since most of us have experienced just that, but it is a factor in popularity.
I think, if you go back and read a bunch of Greg's posts and responses to other people's posts, you'll find that he only mentions himself in two ways: he has a way to help someone else, or he needs direct, specific help himself.
Greg is a very special individual, not many people are able to think so much of others when they're in pain themselves. Still, he's not a bad role model for all of us. Looking at the world around us and the other people in it can help us all.
Kinda like Buddha's mustard seed: a young mother brings her dead baby to Buddha, sobbing and unable to bear her loss. He sends her to the nearest village for a mustard seed from a household which has never experienced pain or loss such as hers. You can figure out what happened, right? ;-)
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