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So... Hi. Hello. Good afternoon. *twiddles with thumbs*
I don't really know how to say this. I feel like I have a lot hanging in the balance right now. I can't figure my CB life out. There's too much... I don't feel like I'm really a part of anything anymore. I don't feel like my presence matters. Should I leave? I don't know. It seemis like so many people are floating away, that I can barely keep up with the goodbye threads. Ashlee, Mei, Cho, Brooke, Owlgirl, and Joan: I will miss you all. You are some of my closest friends on here, and I honestly can't imagine the CB without you. I can imagine it without... me.
You see, with high school and homework and living in a school district known for high intensity and stress levels, I don't have very much free time. So, I've been posting less and less. You've all noticed it. Or perhaps you have not, as I didn't post very much to begin with. Actualy, the latter option is more likely. Perhaps it would be better for all concerned if I would stop being a half-CBer, and cease to exist.
But there's something else, too. It's so hard to hold on, to keep afloat, to keep a little piece of the CB for myself. I'm just an unimportant half-CBer that doesn't even post anything meaningful. And I have been losing interest lately. Perhaps I've outgrown the CB.
Perhaps not.
I don't know.
Tell me, only be honest. Is there any use in my staying on? Even if I do, I will join the Weekenders, and my posts will be highly infrequent. But... Would it make sense to do that? Or should I just... go? Follow the crowd? What should I do? I don't know. My life is breaking.
I feel like this thread is small and pointless, compared to all the goodbye threads on here, not being a true goodbye, but simply a plea. But so many times have I stopped myself from posting because I thought what I had to say had no importance... I think I'll post this now. Please don't hate me for it, I don't want to be self-centered. I'd only like to ask.
submitted by Booksy Owly
(September 1, 2016 - 11:43 pm)
(September 1, 2016 - 11:43 pm)
If you want to leave, Booksy, that's okay. I wouldn't want to guilt-trip you into staying if you really didn't want to.
But if it's a question of whether you'd be any use if you stayed, the answer is YES. We love you Booksy! Seeing you sometimes would be infinitely better than seeing you never! Don't leave because you think we don't need or want you, because we do!
So again, do what you think you really want to do, but know that if it's the good of the Chatterbox that is making you worried about staying...you don't need to worry. The Chatterbox will always be more complete with you in it.
(September 3, 2016 - 12:36 pm)
No... Booksy Owly. Listen to me now. Don't leave. I dont' think you're unimportant or minor. There was a time when I was jealous of you and a few others because you were such popular CBers and I wasn't. So please, don't leave. I'm telling you the truth. Right now. Okay? Just don't leave, and I'll be a happier person. Because. You. Are. Amazing. And. That. Is. The. Truth.
(September 3, 2016 - 8:44 pm)
No...
(September 4, 2016 - 12:35 pm)
Oh, please stay on! You are a great CBer! You were awarded the "Everybuggy" award, remember! Please don't leave. Even if you don't post frequently, I know that I'd hate to have you totally go. You are not just a half CBer. It doesn't matter how often you post; you will always be a CBer. Once a CBer, always a CBer! If you do leave, I will miss you. :(
#makeCBgreatagain
(September 4, 2016 - 1:30 pm)
Ohhhhh my goodness, you all put me TO SHAME! I don't see how I could have ever thought I was capable of leaving this wonderful place, these wonderful people.
So, to make it official, I'm staying.
I'm staying for people who understand me.
For hugs, and for stopping the leaving trend.
For having a place where I can be Me, without repricussion, and because my time to leave isn't now.
For Jane Austen fangirling, and because I've just been asked to stay with a P+P quote, and how can anyone leave after they've been P+P quoted at?
For exclamation points.
For having Shade on my "Hooray-you-didn't-leave-and-everything-is-now-good-and-jolly-commitee." :)
Because Cho's staying!
For being appreciated. (Aww, thank's you guys. I didn't deserve that.)
For being a book charrie. (You have no idea how much that means to me, Nova. I'm sorry I made this thread and added to the drama, but thank you so much.)
For being part a piller for the CB roof.
For words not said, and those said.
For having you guys to help with stress.
Because I physically can not leave, being duct-taped to here with signature teal duct-tape.
For adding to the CB completeness. (Another compliment I loved, but didn't deserve.)
Because someone actually thought I was popular. (Really? I think you're mistaken, but I'm flattered.)
Because no.
For making the CB great again.
I love you guys. i can't leave. At least, not now. This isn't my time. I'd like to formally appologise. I was being weak and selfish, and it was wrong of me. I'll try not to let it happen again. Thank you for making me realise my mistake.
*hugs*
Also, this will likely be one of my last week-day posts. I'll mostly be on on weekends. But at least I'll still be on at all!
(September 6, 2016 - 9:03 pm)
I love Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice was such a good book. Mr. Darcy might be one of my fictional crushes. (Westley from the Princess Bride is another).
(September 9, 2016 - 11:35 pm)
Please read^
(September 9, 2016 - 8:38 pm)
YAY!!!! BOOKSY OWL, THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH FOR STAYING!!!!
Ok, I know you just said that you would stay, but I still need to say something.
Booksy Owl, I have always looked up to you on the CB. You are an absolutely AMAZING CBer. I know exactly how you feel about not really being committed to the CB and I have thought about leaving many times, but I stop myself every time because I know that there are so many awesome people on her that I could never leave. And you are one of those awesome people. Every time one of the people that I feel like I "know" on here leaves, I start wondering if I really should stay. You are nowhere close to an unimportant half CBer and if you had left it could be the thing that would make me leave. Thank you so so SO much for staying.
(September 10, 2016 - 5:48 am)