The Brink of An Abyss (12)

What prevents a person from toppling over into the abyss that is their life sometimes?

For me it has been my friends...not family...friends...it took perfect strangers to open my eyes to who and what i am and see myself in a "special" way that has escaped me most my life..

They have encouraged me to continue to be all that i am, compromise nothing and settle for nothing less than i am deserving of...their love, respect and compassion has helped me not to fall into that abyss...
They have taught me that sometimes love defies definition...it just is..and for reasons we cannot always understand...I am grateful for those who take the time to meet me outside this forum and site, who see me in my "element" and know that my picture is merely a one dimension replica of who and what i really am...

So....what or who...prevents you from toppling into your "abyss"??

My "girlfriends" all know who they are...


But thank you to these men who understand my "love" defies description..were willing to take what i offered, and stood by me through my idiosyncracies...

I love you Danny...
I love you Will...
I love you Mark...
I love you Kim...
I love you Gary...


....and my love to Leo...my fellow "H*E*B"..who "saves" me from myself...

My first thought would be my faith, children, friends and family.


And this one is for you Urs

Ahhh, the abyssal demise...It would diffently be my daughter, and my son. Without them, life would have taken the wrong turn for the worse, every other weekend was/is a blessing
And thanks to you Urs...there is a new cat on the block, making the world seem like paradise again, and hope is restored, I owe you much Urls for bringing me into the CS heaven,
Keep that beautiful smile on your face Urs...show your children you are strong and they will always look up to you.

Bob, oxox

My children, my friends and my family are those who have helped me to stay alert and in line so to speak.

Tnank you Bobby....

You are one of the few who i have had the priviledge of meeting, who i have had in my home and able to share myself outside of this forum with...

I am happy that you are in paradise right now...

....what is for you...can never pass you by....

My dog...but she's not working for them cookies today. What's that you say abyss...come a little closer...oh my look at the pretty colors.....Dance you damn dog dance!

Ultimately you do. Friends, family, perhaps even Oprah might change your persepctive, but ultimately you do it yourself.

No one can save you from yourself, 'they' are only able to point you in the right direction.

Isn't it funny though that sometimes when you step back from that abyss...with the encouragement from your friends....what you mistook for a deep dark bottomless pit...was in fact a "pothole"...