There are no safe providers. Truth is they all need money and let advertisers in, cookies (and worse) on your machine, or eventually sell out to bigger providers who use your info anyway. .
When you buy into the internet, you buy into the fact that every detail of what you do and say is being monitored and stored, to sell you something , to find out who you are, what you are interested in, and where you are, for polls and scientific enquiry. NOTHING is secret or sacred on the internet. Every page you turn, every click is monitored.
I had someone in my life last year who was a wonderful person and then one day out of the blue sent a dear john e mail saying he no longer wished a relatioship with me after 8 months of bliss, not so much as an arguement.......
I was hurt and confused and full of self recriminations, and wasn't sure what to do about it, but I figured that sometimes it's better to do nothing, because for any relationship to work, both people need to be fulfilled in themselves and if that is not the case, then it is never going to work anyway.
The ache took a while to go away, but eventually it did andyou know what? If I met him on a street today I wouldn't even ask him why he did it. In the end that was his choice to do with his life as we wanted and I just wasn't it.
It will get better. Getting out there and meeting new people helps.
I do feel for you though. It is tough. I hope you find someone worthy of you soon and then you will wonder why you were with this one in the first place.
"I have taken my frustration out on the animated characters in Quake4 on the Xbox360, so chances are if anyone doesnt get a reply to an answer they send on Msn its because i am blowing the hell out of some poor pixels!!"
Never saw any problems solve themselves while a person sat and played games on the x box. It's about attitude and DOING something about it. (Emphasis on putting one foot in front of the other).
Those who said it was about making up your mind to just say "enough is enough" were right too.
Changing your attitude is only changing your mind and choosing to see things another way, and you can change your mind about how you think about anything.
Very wise words. I would add that the proof of people not being honest is in evidence in the world we live in right now. You only have to look at politics, religion, media coverage, advertising, and how little respect there is to see it.
That is beautiful and so true. Pity society rarely sees relationships such as you describe, all too often, as interfering or getting too close,(whatever that is). Neighbours never meet and people in the street don't speak, communities dying, all because society says so and engenders fear to the extent that people rarely get that close anymore. Bring back the old ways where people mucked in and were allowed to show they cared just because they were your neighbour and REAL friend.
"pulling colours from the sea, the sky from the me myself and I that ache to weave fine silk from half-born, limping concepts that wilt, unsaid in darkened hallways"
This is my favourite part. It speaks to me of our depths and the frustration of trying to explain the unexplainable.
You say things so beautifully and so profoundly though, so you must have found your way through the labyrinth to be able to give it voice in poems like this.
If there was a SIMPLE formula for HAPPINESS (whatever that is?), we'd all be using it and no one would be on here, and places like it, looking for it.jmo
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RE: Which email providers do you trust?
G mail IS Google.