My words never did much good, however good l might craft them.

Just hold tight and never let go, as bad as things get, becaseu, sometime, they will get better.  Belive in the light at the end of the tunnel. You can.

Hey, I get it. I'm really, really new (like 2 months) and I've read some stuff by you, St Owl, and by so many other talented writers and I have seen the RPs and the stories and I just want to say, if it helps, that I think you guys are all really, really amazing and good writing role models.

Sorry if this was not fitting at all.

-Aquina  

Oy, peoples! Accept change! Things change. But still, it hurts when things change. I know from experience.

I have a friend, let's call her Sally, and she is constantly saying, "Come on guys! Stop fighting! Can't you just live without fighting? Let's all be friends! Stop fighting!" And the thing is, that just makes it worse. What I wish is that she would actually try to help resolve fights, instead of just grumbling about them. I think it is sort of the same thing here. We all want nothing to change. Sally doesn't want fighting because she used to go to an absolutely tiny school with about fifty kids total (Not that our school isn't tiny-we have 200) where nobody ever fought because everyone was super-friendsy and nice. And even though Sally is an amazing person with a great sense of humor and the kindest heart ever, she can not accept when her friends fight. This is like now. We cannot, or will not, accept that there is change on the CB, even though there always will be. And when we come to accept it, we try to shun it, grumble about it, stop it. In science class, we are doing a horribly easy unit on erosion and deposition. We read about the predicaments New Orleans faces because it is pretty much on a bunch of wetlands. The river that flows near it wants to change its course. Letting it do so would destroy the port of New Orleans. But nature will eventually have its way because it is stronger than any human life force.

Now, the CB is not on such a broad scale. The CB is a small corner of the internet, with only about 100 people in the know, probably less. But it seems that some of us are doing what New Orleans is doing: Building walls to keep the water out. That water is change. The thing is, if water floods the city, those walls will not let it out. And this is what is happening. Tension is rising and if we don't rise up and do something the CB could flood. It may be left damaged and broken. And we cannot let that happen. Stopping the fighting will do no good. We have to accept that there will be fights, and we have to know that we can heal. We also can not build walls, or change, which, like that river, is the natural order of things, from happening. Entropy is always increasing. Why don't we use that for our benifit, insteading of building anti-entropy walls?

Wow. That whole paragraph sounds a bit over my head.

I am not saying we have to do any of this stuff. I am just suggesting. Actually, I am one of the grumblers. I am not getting up and doing anything. Oh, well.

I do not have anything against the absolutely wonderful city of New Orleans.  

I'm REALLY new to the CB- been here since like October 20. But I think that we "newbies" need you "oldies" to help inspire us to make the CB fun. I LOOOOOVE reading everbody's posts on the Rp's. They inspire me to make my writing better. Everyone on the CB is an AMAZING wtriter. And I understand that some older CB'ers have to leave. But they usually say that it's becuase they think that CB is "different" than it used to be. Now, I wasn't here to experience what the Cb "used to be". Maybe you oldies can tell us what the CB was like before we were here, and we can try to make it like that again. 

Wow. that was really deep..  Time to get back to fun RP writing! =P 

I'm sorry. I left. But I saw the post and while I'm not "back" I guess I want to respond.

St.Owl, I think you sum up why the CB is changing. During the AE war, I feel like CB was still in that spirit of writing and fun at the same time. Even the AE threads were well-written, they were hyper but that doesn't mean they're completely bad.

But now that people don't care as much about the writing and now it's just being hyper. I'm not that much an "oldie". I came on AFTER Brookeira, I'm a Crowd Sorcery CBers. But I came on here because I wanted friends who would push me towards being who I want to be: I'd like to have people who can be role models. And the power of being online, of being anonymous basically, is that you learn from ALL these people, older, younger, differently-opinionated, widespread across the world. And now I feel like some people aren't role models or even learning anything: they misuse grammar, turn serious threads into chat, don't attempt to explain anything, et cetera. 

And I'm not saying the "old" CB is better. I like the crazy CB. But not the apathetic CB.