Off topic discussions are vital to a forum.
The accumulation of knowledge a forum gathers about our specific illnesses is priceless, and the chance to vent and to find compassion is enormously important to all of us, but the off topic discussions give life to a forum.
Off topic discussions make a forum a meeting place for thoughts and ideas and humor and creative thinking. Off topic discussions allow us to get to know each other as people, not just as fellow patients by reminding us that there is still life beyond pain and suffering.

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