So I was a member of a forum once, and to clear things up it wasn't the Nintendo forum I came from (TheWiiU), it was one long before when my disability wasn't as bad. Now to continue the story...
It was kind of a hidden forum of the internet where several members had amassed 6000-12000 posts over years time. So in other words, they posted frequently. The owner of the forum was very behind the scenes and the only thing he ever said to me in years of posting was "You can make a lot of posts in a short period of time" but he meant it in a good way. This man had good morals, he just wasn't posting publicly too much.
I made a few friends on there and was widely respected by half of all members. At the same time, my friends on there realized I was slipping due to my disability, they didn't avoid me over it, they just pointed out "I think he has..." even when I denied it.
So I learned a lesson though. I took my friends on there for granted and would sometimes leave the forum a week or two without talking to them or telling them and expected them to be there. But we didn't exchange contact info well and after a few years, the forum abruptly shut down. A new owner, a member from that forum who a lot of people didn't like, kind of made a forum for the people to flock to, but failed to alert everyone of the new forum and had little interest in keeping the old members and now, the only 3 members of this new forum are him and a couple of friends who were never really on the previous forum.
Now I have hidden one piece of advice in this post, when I mentioned you should be careful about taking friends for granted, but I would also like to post another. Life became twice as hard after my disability kicked in. If you ask me, half of it was because I had the ability to act like a jerk at times, the other half is that we live in a world which not only is impatient of these things at times, but is growing increasingly impatient in general.
I just thought I'd tell this story because out of my 27 years on this Earth, I could have spent 3-4 months if added up over the years on there, of my life talking on there. Yeah, I faced a lot of boredom.
It was kind of a hidden forum of the internet where several members had amassed 6000-12000 posts over years time. So in other words, they posted frequently. The owner of the forum was very behind the scenes and the only thing he ever said to me in years of posting was "You can make a lot of posts in a short period of time" but he meant it in a good way. This man had good morals, he just wasn't posting publicly too much.
I made a few friends on there and was widely respected by half of all members. At the same time, my friends on there realized I was slipping due to my disability, they didn't avoid me over it, they just pointed out "I think he has..." even when I denied it.
So I learned a lesson though. I took my friends on there for granted and would sometimes leave the forum a week or two without talking to them or telling them and expected them to be there. But we didn't exchange contact info well and after a few years, the forum abruptly shut down. A new owner, a member from that forum who a lot of people didn't like, kind of made a forum for the people to flock to, but failed to alert everyone of the new forum and had little interest in keeping the old members and now, the only 3 members of this new forum are him and a couple of friends who were never really on the previous forum.
Now I have hidden one piece of advice in this post, when I mentioned you should be careful about taking friends for granted, but I would also like to post another. Life became twice as hard after my disability kicked in. If you ask me, half of it was because I had the ability to act like a jerk at times, the other half is that we live in a world which not only is impatient of these things at times, but is growing increasingly impatient in general.
I just thought I'd tell this story because out of my 27 years on this Earth, I could have spent 3-4 months if added up over the years on there, of my life talking on there. Yeah, I faced a lot of boredom.
