Why This Board is the BEST Board on the Web!!!

MC Girl · Guru

RE: Why This Board is the BEST Board on the Web!!!

Cleghorn · Veteran Member

Thank you MC Girl for your kind words. While it has been nearly 40 years for me, few things hit me harder than a child losing a parent. I hope adults today better recognize the child's need to talk. I was from the "life is for the living, life goes forward" school of thinking. It will sound cruel by today's standards but my mother died on a Sunday and I attended a dental appointment the next morning - English Canadian "keep your chin up" thinking - I have no doubt in the minds of the adults around me, who'd grown up in a Depression and fought overseas that it was the greatest gift they could give me during that period.

Now in some communities there are groups for children who have lost a parent so that they can share their feelings - its great stuff, more is needed.

Jonny G · Senior Member

MC Girl wrote:

rwp2le wrote:

Johab wrote:....... At least i say your name right... its Em-Sea Girl not Mcgirl like McDonalds right?

All this time, I thought it was for Montreal Canadiens.

To all of you who have lost a love one, my deepest sympathies. My wife unexpectedly lost her dad when he was the young age of 59, and while he and my mother-in-law were planning their retirment. Time just doesn't seem heal. Hopefully, we can learn to cope.

ScottishHAB · Veteran Member

keVin wrote:

thanks johab for the props and very well done!!! i have been much, much quieter, but thats more or less because there is so much activity, i read more than i post.
this snake in the grass keeps on slithering.
oh yes... for some of the religious folk... can u say a small prayer for one of the students in my class tomorrow. his mother died this week, and i feel for the 11 year old. i dont know if he is takign it in stride, or if he's in denial, regardless, the funeral is tomorrow :(-- Edited by keVin at 23:04, 2006-05-12

My prayers are with him too.
This board is my way of finding out more every day!I've only really been into hockey since seeing the Habs against Ottawa at the Bell Centre last October(I was on a tour of Canada- amazing I got a ticket!)You folks have helped me to get the low down on the HABS!!I doubt I would be able to make a reunion but who knows!

Nil d · Guru

Jonny G wrote:

To all of you who have lost a love one, my deepest sympathies. My wife unexpectedly lost her dad when he was the young age of 59, and while he and my mother-in-law were planning their retirment. Time just doesn't seem heal. Hopefully, we can learn to cope.

I hope no one gets the wrong impression from that comment. Time may not completely heal, but it does get easier to cope with each passing day. I come from a large family and have lost more than my share over the years, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of all of them. But the pain one feels upon losing a loved one does subside as the days and years go by. And usually what you are left with are the great memories.

Speaking of family, I guess being part of the GoHabs' family, we're all from a large family now!

Jonny G · Senior Member

Nil d wrote:

Jonny G wrote:
... Time just doesn't seem heal. Hopefully, we can learn to cope.

I hope no one gets the wrong impression from that comment. Time may not completely heal, but it does get easier to cope with each passing day. ,

Nil d. I agree with your comments ...