As a postcript to the above post, I would also like to state, for the record, I think it is harmful to advise people that "he may be waking up" or "it sounds like he may slowly be coming back" or whatever--you get the idea.
Look, when we were Newcomers, we needed to hear these things. We were in shock, we needed some hope. But a lot of us have been here long enough to know better. I urge those of you who continue to offer false optimism to think before you speak. Let us us change our focus from them to us. Let us steer ourselves in the direction we want to go.
To get back to a very simple principle...we can only control ourselves. Let's stop obsessing on the WAS and the OP so that we can free ourselves from the prison we are stuck in.
