The thing I'm going to miss about this site versus other places is that it felt like LIFE WAS HAPPENING all around me. You people are like my neighbors. It didn't feel like a "community" in the usual online sense. It felt like a neighborhood. You don't know everyone in your neighborhood but you RECOGNIZE them. You see the changes in their lives, even from a distance.
There's been good and bad, people doing incredible things, people fucking up. People have gotten into relationships, broken up, gotten married. Oh the train guys car got stolen that sucks! oh shit he found it again, thank goodness, good for him! Oh the lady who writes long essays is back with another long essay, cool. I learned to recognize the posters in my neighborhood, and I feel like that was probably reciprocated! People probably recognize me! "the clown person started painting, nifty" "why is the clown person yelling again" "that's a pretty good omelas joke"
And now we're all carrying our stuff out of our homes and onto the streets, saying our goodbyes as we pass. leaving notes on the fence for each other as we eventually all begin to hit the road, and move on.
I don't want to leave. I don't want you all to leave. You all have become so important to me, even though you don't know me. I'm going to miss it here so much. I'm gonna miss all of you, being among you. I'm going to miss being one of you.
Thank you for making this a place I loved.
I'm gonna post till the lights go out.
