[Formendacil]

A good-bye from me might not seem quite in order, given that your period of membership corresponds fairly well to my period of relatively inactive membership, but I'll chime in anyway with best wishes for "real" life, and also add my formal protest to the notion that this site is a waste of time.

It is, in many respects, of course. Time spent online never accomplishes any great moral victories, no one is materially benefited, and when you go to bed at night, all you can say about those lost hours is "I laughed way too hard about that..."

That being said, how many of us actually spend our days completely productively? Maybe I'm in the minority, but I certainly cannot say that I do. An awful lot of my time is spent in useless, self-entertaining endeavours. And as far as THOSE go, I think the Barrow-downs is probably about as good as they come, and maybe then some. Quite apart from all the laughs, the discussions, and the skills involved in both that have been honed here, even two years after I've been intimately involved on this site, I'd still consider a number of the best friends I have in the world to be members here.

So, if you actually are going off to spend every waking moment in productive and moral actions, then you have my complete commendation, but otherwise... while I wish you the best of luck... I can't imagine that taking leave of one of the nicest, awesomest, communities of individuals being such a good thing.


Apologies if I'm making this more depressing... I realise your mom's decision isn't exactly your own.