Originally Posted by PIPSBeliever
I was a transfer from GW into PIPS. I attended the first convention in Malaysia. The reason I went was because of Bryan Marsden and what he wanted the members to achieve through PIPS. He wanted us all to experience a better life and help those we love to have a better life also. I still believe Bryan wanted to help as many people as he could.
I also attended the convention in Hawaii. I made that trip of course to see a beautiful part of my country, but also to show my continued support for PIPS and Bryans vision. Even though the WD situation continued to plague the company and its membership, I still believed that Bryan and the PIPS staff would get things headed into the right direction. I still believed that Bryan's vision of helping those less fortunate was strong and this awesome opportunity would emerge from the storm of WD problems.
I also traveled to Vegas and St Louis to show my support and to keep up as close as possible on the news about PIPS. Of course at those 2 meetings during Bryan's world tour...everything was still steaming right along. My PIPS world was perfect.
I would be the first to admit that Bryan has never been the greatest at public relations. His release of updates with real usable information has always been few and far between. Trying to put a timeframe to his use of the word soon has always been difficult at best and impossible at worse. However, up until early 2005, everything the man ever said that would happen had always seemed to come to be.
While I am still not entirely clear on what happened between PIPS and HSBC, any further explaination of what has transpired since and the reasons for delayed payments and such have been as far as I am concerned......very sketchy at best. I have, as time has passed, come to believe that Bryan has avoided telling the very membership that willingly continued to send his company money and support his so called vision, any acceptible level of truth.
I do think that had he been up front with the problems that plagued PIPS ability to fill WD request, he could have possibly avoided to a great extent the situation that we are all in now and that he and Sharon are having to live with.
My hope that somehow PIPS can be revived in some type of restructured program fades with each passing day and week. I still try to continue and hold on to a little ray of hope that things can be turned around. I don't see where arguing between members no matter if you still believe or not helps anyones situation.
I will say this in closing....there was a time when Bryan and PIPS allowed me to enjoy life to its very fullest. I met new friends that nobody can take away from me. I saw places in this world and experienced culture like I had only dreamed about. My eyes wittnessed smiles from a people I will most likely never see again and I truely believe I saw a small piece of heaven in my own country called Hawaii because of PIPS.
If we have seen PIPS better days and stand before the final curtain that will fall on this program....then so be it. I still thank God for allowing me to have Bryan in my life, if only for a while. I still believe his intentions were always for the good and that somehow, for some reason beyond his control even, that events happened that changed the course that he had hoped this company and its members would take.
Hold on to the friends you have made through PIPS. Never let the light burn out on hope completely. Yet in so doing, we all have to keep our feet planted in reality and except whatever the future brings us as far as PIPS is concerned.
Jeff