Thank you for all of the gifts, support, knowledge, creativity, blessings and new perspectives you and Dream have offered to us in this community. It’s a bittersweet day, but I’m glad I was around to witness and experience the miraculous and wonderful while it was around. You’ve shown us what’s possible and what we’re capable of, and more. It’s obvious that Dream is the best around, and because of that he got the most flak. I’m glad he’s prioritizing himself, even though it is disappointing to lose out on so many great things like the Patreon, just being honest. I don’t know you all personally, but you helped me quite a lot and for that I am grateful.
These things end before anyone really expects them to, and it’s only in looking back that we see that it really ended right on time as it was meant. I think Dream’s work took on a greater life than was expected, and it brought on a lot of darkness, too. People didn’t really appreciate what they had, how lucky they were. There was so much given so freely, few took a step back to see all that was given to them and instead were relentless in asking, and taking, more. A lesson to be learned in giving the world too much of yourself too willingly, casting pearls before swing lest they turn and rend you, which is exactly what happened, a story as old as time.
At times I relied too much on Dream’s work, which is one reason why I hesitated to really jump into using his stuff in the first place, because you have to know going in that this isn’t forever, it will be gone before you know it, and you might have built some structures in your life you won’t be able to sustain without outside help, and this can end up creating a bad situation if you’re not wise in your decisions. Too often help becomes a get out of jail free card, and the lessons that need to be learned aren’t, which means they usually get repeated in more amplified ways. Let this be a lesson that you can’t externalize your salvation to someone else, that you have to do this work on your own for it to really stick. I’m glad things are going more in that direction, although I am very thankful there was so much help given in a time where I really needed it.
I think the full retirement and the closing of the forum really marks a huge shift that I’ve felt in the world at large these past few months. A lot of things in the greater scheme have come to a close, chapters finished, sagas ended. This forum was one of the last places on the internet I spent time at regularly, and I had been spending much less time on forums in general, not even really surfing the web any more. With it gone, I think this is one less reason to even be online at all. It will have a much, much diminished role in my life going forward, as it already does. I think this is happening on a wider scale as well, people are leaving a lot of tech behind. Some aren’t and won’t, but many are done with it. I’m blessed to have these creations going forward. The internet is not forever, it will be gone sooner than you think. I hope you all spent your time wisely when all of this was freely at your fingertips. This feels very much like a canary in the coal mine.
I wish you all the best, especially the ones who made this whole thing go. Thank you for your help, your support, and everything that you do behind the scenes. You are wonderful, good people with huge hearts who took on a huge burden you shouldn’t had to have taken on, but you did so much with it. You can be so proud of what you’ve accomplished, if you feel that’s something you want. Your gifts will never be forgotten or taken for granted.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, take care.