>>9293321 (PB)
There are a lot of Horatio Algers on this board. When a youngfag I drowned. Music, the whole trip. Later I went under river ice to rescue a kid I knew. Not really a friend, but he lived on my street and I'd seen him fall through a slush hole. I found him easily enough, snagged on a tree branch and unconscious. But the clouds had moved over while I was retrieving him and I couldn't find the slush hole again. Things were getting desperate and I was about to take that breath of water again when there was a break in the clouds and the light hit the slush hole. AND ONLY THE SLUSH HOLE. I got him through it, got my head alongside his ass and took a truly sweet breath of the night air.
Sometime later, in trying to analyze why I had been willing to attempt that rescue alone after our companions had run away, I realized that drowning had changed me … I had become very hard to scare. I had tasted death … and it was sweet. When a man has tasted death and knows what lays beyond this life, he's hard to scare. Not impossible … but you've got to threaten me with something worse than death.
Probably a lot of others have had a turning point experience in their lives (I was raised in a messed up household, too.) and that, coupled with a more than generous IQ, is why we find ourselves gathered here. I was invited twice that I know of. Others were invited, too. The first group of us all seemed to have been given personal invites and that's why I keep slogging.
I want to know what it was about me that drew that attention and resulted in the invitation to come here, learn, work.
TL,DR;
I've tried to be brief. I think all of we Anons were "hand selected" and are each in some way exceptional. The gathering continues, we aren't the only ones, but in the meantime we are being trained to accomplish a "great work".