I wanted to share a story and hopefully someone will get something out of it. I know I did.
I have been trading emails back and forth the last few years with this guy named Tony. We are from the same city actually not far from each other at all. We would disagree with many things and I always felt like I had to get the last JIB in. Tony would often disregard totally what I said and come back if he did, he didn’t always respond in a timely manner, with some peaceful BUDDAH type Tony Robbins sounding response that would often infuriate me even further. I quit drinking over the time we exchanged conversation and my life got better. I wasn’t so mad that Tony was in Spain or China or wherever I just thought how different our lives were and we are around the same age.
Anyway we actually came close to meeting a few times. I was in the area of his job one time and burst in asking where he was and he was out of town. I would miss chances to meet him at the various places around town. During our time emailing I stopped poking as hard because I came to realize that my problems were of my own doing and if I was going to deal with them I had to face them and do my best to solve them. Tony and I approach problems and people totally different I’m all Type A and he is definitely Type B but then again we never meet, and we never will. See Tony died in a car wreck, I heard it on the news and I was stunned. I did turn from my wife because I was crying a little thinking how I missed a chance to meet a great man, a friend, a brother.
How are you treating the Tony’s in your life ? Please don’t miss out like I did.
R.I.P Tony Thanks for all your help 
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John, that’s a great lesson you just shared. I appreciate that my friend. It’s amazing how relationships develop from exchanges on the internet. Most never move past that point but they are no less important. We still earn respect, make friends, find people we can’t stand and admire a few. I have online friends that I’ve know for over ten years yet never met in person. They are just as important as local friends in my book.
.-= Brian D. Hawkins´s last blog ..Connect With Me – Leave Your Links =-.
@Brian D. Hawkins: Thanks man and I do consider you a friend MY friend and as I learn more about you
I have even more respect for you and what your about Thanks My Friend
A touching story from an online friendship, could happen to anyone of us. A good lesson to treasure what we have now and don’t take things for granted. Appreciate you sharing this story with us, John. It’s a busy online world out there, but good to be reminded of humanity from time to time. Take care.
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Thank you, I too got a lot out of this, and I agree with Ching Ya, that we should never take anything for granted. The Internet is a very weird place, as we get very close to people via screen, some of whom we will never meet, and yet, feel very close to, I think this is especially true in the blogging world.
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Nice, short and sweet life lesson for everyone there brother. You never know the different paths in life and where they might take you, some of the people you meet along the way will change your life one way or another.
.-= Extreme John @Blogging CEO´s last blog ..A Day in the Life of Extreme John Episode 7 [video] =-.
It is pretty sad that you never got to meet. But I can tell you value friends even more so because of that lost opportunity. Sometimes it’s just hard to stop and smell the roses or have coffee with a friend.
.-= Keith@Norman Rockwell Art´s last blog ..Mar 11, Portrait of Richard M. Nixon, Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post Cover 1960 =-.