No one exactly like you exists in this whole world, nor ever did, nor ever will. Respect the existence that made this true and honour it by being It's work of art - be uniquely you! Roz

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I have come to a conclusion that when I joined this site, I was myself and damn proud of it. However, little by little petty insignificant nothings where beginning to change the person I am. I'm a fighter or I wouldn't have beaten the cancer that still lives within me but I'm a peaceful, intelligent woman that lives and lets live; i.e. until I met some so-called friends. I now know so much better than all that and have a few of you to thank for that. I'll leave you wondering who you maybe just for the fun of it. I'm back and that's all that I care about and should worry some of you. ;-) I'm back to live my life and meet people that have travelled to places where I still haven't been and make "friends",(not using the term lightly here), and I'm out of the petty pretend-friends' game that go about sharing my photos willy-nilly without once asking if I mind. Guess what? I do mind. If you want to share what is mine then have the decency to ask if it's okay or not with me. I have never shared what wasn't mine to share; I've never given what wasn't mine to give; I've never rated anyone lower than a simple five and/or made positive or no comments at all. Is it much to much to ask that the rest of the site display the same respect I give them? I can only speak for myself but I have a very few friends here and the rest are mere acquaintances and that's exactly the way it should be. Good friends are hard to come by but once you've found them, then they should be forever. The rest are just ships that pass through your life and sail away because they were never meant to stay. I am who I am and I am proud of it. I wonder how many of you are really proud of who you are, notice that I didn't say, who you pretend to be here or on any other site but who you truly are. In my case, what you get is what you see and funnily enough what you see is what you get. If you respect me, then I'll respect you. If you're comments are disrespectful, I won't delete them but you'll be replied in kind. I am a survivor because I've had to be but then I've always really liked the person that is me because I accept myself, do you? Roz :-)

1. "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" Albert Einstein 2. "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." H. G. Wells (1866-1946) 3. "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Nietzsche 4. "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." 5. "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) 6. 'Tis not love's going hurts my days, but that it went in little ways." Edna St. Vincent Millay 7. "Hands that do are holier than hands that pray." Sathya Sri Babba 8. "Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ." Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 12

"What good is sitting alone In your room? Come hear the music play. Life is a Cabaret, old chum, Come to the Cabaret. Put down the knitting, The book and the broom. It's time for a holiday. Life is a Cabaret, old chum Come to the Cabaret. Come taste the wine, Come hear the band. Come blow a horn, Start celebrating; Right this way, Your table's waiting. What good's permitting Some prophet of doom To wipe every smile away. Life is a Cabaret, old chum, So Come to the Cabaret! I used to have a girlfriend Known as Elsie, With whom I shared A four sordid rooms in Chelsea She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower... As a matter of fact she rented by the hour. The day she died the neighbors Came to snicker: "Well, that's what comes from too much pills and liquor." But when I saw her laid out like a Queen, She was the happiest... corpse... I'd ever seen. I think of Elsie to this very day. I remember how she'd turn to me and say: "What good is sitting all alone in you room? Come hear the music play. Life is a Cabaret, old chum, Come to the Cabaret. And as for me, And as for me, I made my mind up, back in Chelsea, When I go, I'm going like Elsie. Start by admitting, From cradle to tomb It isn't that a long a stay. Life is a Cabaret, old chum, It's only a Cabaret, old chum And I love a Cabaret." Liza Minelli in "Cabaret".