Listen, I never really leave. I am certain it has to do with the fact
that there are parts of me here that don't exist anywhere else. There
are things that have happened that I probably don't even remember. If I
took the time to read all of the oldest posts here I'm sure I would be
embarassed by the overly emotional ramblings of an almost teenager.
Strangest of all, there are loves that have come and gone here - people that I have lost
entirely. There are people the entire world lost and that was hard but I
would have never even known of their existence were it not for the
community we all created here.
There are friends I still hold dearly that came from this place in one way or another.
I
actually have no idea who I would be now if I had never found
everything2. It sounds odd to admit this but I know
it's true.
I have been absolutely terrible at keeping in touch
with everyone for months now. Blame the pandemic, or perhaps my own
inability to string interesting words together into a sentence nevermind
an entire conversation. I think of you all often. I love many of you
more than you know. So many of you have meant so much to me.
I hope the next year is better for everyone, for the entire world.
Pulsing chunks of love in buckets,
- hamster bong