Level 42 Digest for Friday, December 07, 2007

Friday, December 07, 2007

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Topics for Friday, December 07, 2007

1. Don Zipf - Chris Lawless

1. Don Zipf
From:	Chris Lawless <chrisjlawless @ yahoo.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:32:56 -0800 (PST)	[top]
If you aren't interested in reading about how a personal situation kind of ties in to what happened with Don, just go ahead and skip to the next post. Seriously. Skip ahead. Recently, I had come across a package I had received from Don back in October of 1998. It contained four of the Digest 5 Year Anniversary pins I had ordered from him back then, and even finding out about the pins (and the Digest they commemorated) was something of a big deal for me because I literally only had internet access one night a week at a friend's house. I wrote to Don, and he got back to me right away with all the details. A very friendly fellow for certain. When I received the pins I decided to just keep them in the package that he had sent them in, and all things considered I'm glad I did. I just dug it out of the container it's stored in, and it was strange to see his name there in the return address field and think that he's not with us here anymore. The reason I mention the date is because that was a time in my life when things were a lot less complicated. In fact, that was the very last month before things started to take a very bad turn (that would ultimately take four years to correct). So much so in fact that I ended up turning to a fellow Digester whom I'd been corresponding with for help. By a strange coincidence, that friendship recently ended because said person turned out to be a spineless hypocrite. Speaking religion and acting very "Holier Than Thou" when everyone was looking, but sneaking off to a very secret life of adult theaters (on the "down low", as they say, since he's married), folders and folders of porn on his computer (so much so that he had to organize them by hair color and nationality), and who know what else- when he didn't think anyone was noticing. The problem arose when he projected all of that onto me- even though in all the time we knew each other there was never a single conversation of that nature between us. Imagine someone you've known and trusted for a very long time turns out to have a drug habit, yet that person accuses you of being an addict who in turn is trying to get them addicted. That was the level of betrayal. So here I am now, almost 10 years out and the better for everything I've experienced, and all of a sudden there are two people from a particular time in my life that are gone now in a very short span of time. One figuratively, one literally. I don't know- it just strikes me as...significant somehow. Probably only to myself, but significant nonetheless. If you've read this far and this somehow made sense to you, take from it what you will. If it didn't and you're wondering why I posted it here in the first place, well, you were told at the beginning of the post to skip this one by, right? Twice, in fact. The only thing I can think to add at this point is to tell anyone (who might be inclined to ask) that I'm NOT going to reveal the person's identity, so don't waste your own time writing to ask me who it is. As with so many other things in life, it's not who did something, but what the did and how it fits into the greater context of things. Tragedies like what happened with Don continually serve to remind of us of that. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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