Early one morning a young man was walking along a beach. He came upon an elderly man. The young man saw that elderly man was picking up starfish from the beach and setting them into the water.
“What are you doing” the young man inquired. The elderly man replied that he was moving the starfish back to the sea, that on the beach in the morning sun they would die.
The young man was puzzled, there must be thousands of beaches all over the world, and upon them millions of starfish he thought. What difference does it make the young man asked “what does it matter?”.
The elderly man set another starfish into the sea, looked thoughtfully and replied “it matters”
“It matters to this one”
Thank-you to Christine for the starfish concept.
That is the spirit of this website. That whatever help we can offer matters it matters to each person who comes here. Welcome to the Posting Place. I presume that you reached this site by a search on Suicide or Depression or some related topic. The Posting Place was established as a site for people who suffer from depressive illnesses to sound off, seek advice, make new friends, exchange ideas, or to give voice to their anquish.
The site includes a posting page where you can post your thoughts, ideas, poems, complaints, pretty much anything that is not deliberatly offensive. While this site is for people suffering from depression, the topics need not be limited. We have information about our chat room. Even if you have never used chat before, we can get you started. We have links to plenty of sites related to depressive illness. Last we have our own information about depression, the net, and computers in general.
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