I recognize that many people have had a very rough year. Sometimes it seems inconceivable how bad it has been. Wegotchickens, your own edited post alluded to this before you edited it. Much of the time, we don't talk about our problems. Those times, it is easier to hide behind laughter and silliness. But sometimes things are too terrible to even consider laughter. And then we hide. I get it. I did that for awhile this summer when the youngest son of a dear friend was murdered. I couldn't be here at all. All I had was tears. But then, my survival instinct pushes me to reach out again. We are not all at the same place in our struggles and grieving. Some are newly wounded. Some are healing.
It's okay to ask us to be more patient with the mascot hosts. You know their situations much more than we do.
