X-Message-Number: 20760
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:19:21 -0800
From: "John Grigg" <>
Subject: Rudi, hang in there!

Hello Rudi,


I would have responded faster, but sometimes for some unknown reason I don't get
sent my Cryonet digest.  I had to find this message and the responses to it on 
in the archive.


It sounds like you are experiencing some real adversity right now in your life.
I can only imagine how a man who has worked so hard to be successful (and 
honest, too!) would feel deeply wounded by having an oversight organization come
after him with no just grounds for it.  Topping that off with chronic fatigue 
syndrome (I had no idea) would be the icing on this bitter cake.  As for the 
vandalism, it has sadly been here since time immemorial, but with present-day 
surveillance tech you could nail them if you really felt it was needed(I realize
you have better things to do).  


When facing hardship I like to pray about things and then write down on a sheet 
of paper what things I can do to try to either solve or work around (if 
unsolvable) the problem.  I find this really helps me to see things logically 
and feel better to an extent.  Also, I like to exercise hard to burn off some of
the negative energy inside.  I would recommend these things to you.


We all know in theory life is not always just and good (to say the least!), but 
when we are the ones kicked it sure makes us want to shout "unfair!!" and rage 
at the world.  So I want you to know I have some empathy for you.


Rudi, in many ways you are a very fortunate person.  You could have been born 
into third-world poverty, or from the start of your life been mentally or 
physically crippled.  Despite all your problems, you are in truth one very lucky
devil (and I realize some of this luck you made for yourself).  So please try 
to count your blessings and not just your problems, however heavy they are at 
present.


As a man of virtue you stand on the high ground, even when facing a faceless 
government organization.  I will personally email you about some small things I 
can do to perhaps help.


I fully realize advice is so much easier given than received! lol  But I just 
wanted to let you know I am rooting hard for you.  In time your happy demeanor 
will return with a certain level of strength it before lacked.  


I feel strange that while the nation and world around me has so many problems, 
in my own life things are going very well(it has been a long time in coming)!  I
remember how in the booming nineties life was not so great for me while it was 
for so many others.  But again we make our own luck to a large extent.      

your friend,

John Grigg

     







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