Ode to lost comrades

[Dynasty[1up]]

Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies,
Now gay with the broad setting sun;
Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties,
Our race of existence is run!
Thou grim King of Terrors; thou Life’s gloomy foe!
Go, frighten the coward and slave;
Go, teach them to tremble, fell tyrant! But know
No terrors hast thou to the brave!


Thou strik’st the dull peasant—he sinks in the dark,
Nor saves e’en the wreck of a name.
Thou strik’st the young hero—a glorious mark;
He falls in the blaze of his fame!
In the field of proud honour—our swords in our hands,
Our King and our country to save;
While victory shines on Life’s last ebbing sands,—
O who would not die with the brave!

[G|Man[1up]]

Don't resign, you.

[Dynasty[1up]]

I hate to say good-bye
Yet have to say farewell
But we shall meet again
Of that I can foretell

To you I wish the best
You have your own freewill
Though tomorrow is uncertain
Your loss, most hard to fill

So farewell, my friend, adieu
I utter it with pain
Farewell, my friend, adieu
In sunshine or in rain

Farewell, my friend, adieu
This day would come, we knew
Our dreams we shall pursue
For now, my friend, adieu
 

[G|Man[1up]]

Don't resign, you.

^^^

[King Whistle[1up]]

Don't resign, you.

^^^

What he said

[Dynasty[1up]]

Death is eternity;
Eternity is stone;
Stone is silent.

It is an immorality of sorts.

[Dynasty[1up]]

Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute wave deliver:
No more by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.

Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea,
A rivulet then a river:
Nowhere by thee my steps shall be
For ever and for ever.

But here will sigh thine alder tree
And here thine aspen shiver;
And here by thee will hum the bee,
For ever and for ever.

A thousand suns will stream on thee,
A thousand moons will quiver;
But not by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.

[RonaldLee[1up]]

"In the world of ninja, those who don't follow the rules are scum, that's true. But, those who abandon their friends are worse than scum." --Hatake Kakashi.
          NarutoHQ (n.d.) Hatake Kakashi Biography. Retrieved 9/11/2012 from url: http://www.narutohq.com/hatake-kakashi.php

"...may flights of devils wing you to your rest" --Claudia, played by Kirsten Dunst.
          Rice, A. (1994). Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles.

[SnKQuaKe]

Many are abandoned long before they resign.

[SnKMaddog]

 Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.
-Michael Josephson

 It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
-Paul Theroux



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[RonaldLee[1up]]

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.
-Michael Josephson

 It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
-Paul Theroux

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"Every man's way is right in his own eyes..." (Proverbs, 21:2), which can lead to "doing the wrong thing for the right reasons" (Edward L. Peck, Retired US Amabassdor).

[RonaldLee[1up]]

Many are abandoned long before they resign.

I can't think of a single person who could make that claim in good faith, unless of course it was someone that was ejected wrongfully. I don't think that anyone has been wrongfully ejected.  It certainly could not be someone who left of their own volition. I feel that the people who leave the clan are the ones doing the abandoning by giving up their position and status in the clan. This would constitute a type of physical abandonment. Your post appears to discuss emotional abandonment. I am not familiar with the concept of emotional abandonment, but I have heard the term. Perhaps though a person could feel that having less social interaction with most of the group is a type of emotional abandonment.