New and Lonely

Axel Slingerland said:
Hi Lael,

I would say I know how you feel because I've been in similar situations myself. But I don't believe anyone can know exactly how you feel, because they aren't you. But be that as it may, I can relate to how you feel.

So all I can say is stick around. In just the few days I've been here, it's helped me already. Because I know that if I need to talk to someone, I can do that here.
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Hi, @Axel Slingerland. You too are welcome among us here at Seniors. There is something for everyone in this large and diverse forum. 🦘 🦘 🦘
 

Axel Slingerland said:
Hi Lael,

I would say I know how you feel because I've been in similar situations myself. But I don't believe anyone can know exactly how you feel, because they aren't you. But be that as it may, I can relate to how you feel.

So all I can say is stick around. In just the few days I've been here, it's helped me already. Because I know that if I need to talk to someone, I can do that here.
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Exactly! Since finding SF I am loosing my feeling of being alone with nobody to chat with. May it be the same for you.
 
Warrigal said:
Hi, @Axel Slingerland. You too are welcome among us here at Seniors. There is something for everyone in this large and diverse forum. 🦘 🦘 🦘
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Thanks... By the way, I like your name. It reminds me of my days at Auburn University in Alabama. The football team has a mascot named Aubie the Tiger, and their battle cry is "WAR EAGLE!", and is represented by a golden eagle named [name] War Eagle #, currently Aurea, War Eagle VIII. Why do they spend so much time, effort and money to keep a live golden eagle at the University for the sole purpose of having it fly around the football stadium before games if it is not a mascot? Your guess is as good as mine. Granted Aubie has won the collegiate mascot national championship 11 times. But Aubie is just a guy in a cartoonish Tiger suit. The War Eagle is a living mascot to many people.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
Thanks... By the way, I like your name. It reminds me of my days at Auburn University in Alabama. The football team has a mascot named Aubie the Tiger, and their battle cry is "WAR EAGLE!", and is represented by a golden eagle named [name] War Eagle #, currently Aurea, War Eagle VIII. Why do they spend so much time, effort and money to keep a live golden eagle at the University for the sole purpose of having it fly around the football stadium before games if it is not a mascot? Your guess is as good as mine. Granted Aubie has won the collegiate mascot national championship 11 times. But Aubie is just a guy in a cartoonish Tiger suit. The War Eagle is a living mascot to many people.
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You are closer to the mark than you realise. In my younger days I signed up to be a youth leader in an outward bound club very similar to the scouts, cubs, guides and brownies, but unaffiliated.

I needed a club name and chose Warrigal, which is one of the indigenous names for a dingo as depicted in my avatar. The members of the boys pack turned it into War Eagle. Another female leader chose Bukari, an aboriginal name for a koala. They pronounced this as Bacardi.
 
I never knew that. I have been fascinated by Australia for years. Back in my 20s and 30s I wanted to go there again, after having been to Sydney for a week in 1974 or 1975. But instead of being a US Soldier on leave and being restricted by our CO as to where we could go, a friend of mine and I wanted to do a bicycle trip on Highway 1 and see the entire Australian coast. People kept telling us that was nuts, that the highway was over 5,000 miles, it's not always on the coast and didn't even go all the way around Australia.

I pointed out that when I got out of the Army, we rode from Chicago Illinois to Santa Monica, California on one of the original routes for US 66, then to Banff National Park in Canada and back into the US at the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (aka Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada and Glacier National Park in the US), from there we went south to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in Wyoming, and Rocky Mountain National Park is Colorado. We decided to stop in Denver. We were going to ride back to Illinois but decided we had gone far enough at 6,100 miles.

But we could never get time off or enough money for a trip around Australia. I've thought about that many times over the years.

And least but not last, I like your Turkish Proverb. It says so much in just a few words.
 

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