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(17-12-2011 01:20 AM)Paul Wrote:  As my Spanish teacher says...SOLA AMOR! (only love! ) I admit that I really should be here a lot more, but every time I'm on nobody else is on so I forget to check it later and eventually forget the check it at all. I'm in a lot of stress because of school so I forget easily, so I can't help that I forget to check this site. :/ I'll try to come on more but I can't guarantee it.

There's always someone posting here on a daily basis, and as you can see there's a regular enough stream of threads. All that's needed is for you to post what's going on in your life (whether gaming or whatever) to do your bit. The more people post, the more people have something to reply to.

The big problem we have here right now is a large number of lurkers like Gothika (or should I say [removed] - whose user profile shows she's coming in here every couple of days) who won't post anything because it's not one of the old clique that are posting and refuse point-blank to talk to the rest of us that are here - not even to Cororon, who's been here since the start but whom it seems doesn't "count" as far as they're concerned.

They need to accept that the world and people move on, and interact with those that remain, not waiting for the people from "good old days" to come back. When you lose touch with people, it's sad but it's usually for the best of reasons. You're better living with your old memories as you knew them with a smile, imagining them having happy lives elsewhere.

This I can relate from personal experience. About five years ago I virtually lost touch with almost everyone I knew due to real life events and a serious illness that left me housebound for a time (didn't get around to dropping them a line or e-mail, never returned answerphone messages, you know how it goes). This year I thought it would be nice to try and get back in touch with some of them at Christmas.

It was a decision I was swiftly to regret. One had died in a squalid flat as a result of heroin abuse (this was the last person in the world I'd ever have thought would become a junkie), one has been jailed for some seriously skin-crawling activities (again, last person in the world), one has been sectioned for repeated suicide attempts (same), one has been subject to a highly embarrassing tabloid exposure about their private life (same), one had been stabbed to death by a nutter, and one had died back in March from a brain-tumour only discovered the when it was too late. Do I wish I'd never known any of it? Yes. At that point I decided to let the past remain in the past.

Matt is not going to continue to pay for Simsforums.com if no one is posting come March 2012. It's ominous enough that we haven't managed to get a reply out of him for over a month since the failed move. The fate of this place is in the hands of those who come here.

Like Slade always say at this time of year, "Look to the future now, it's only just begun."