Teach Them How to Say Goodbye

Day 4,672, 09:06 • Published in USA USA • by Dinnyin


Recent events have given me pause to reflect on my time here in this community, and what I have given and taken from those of you who I have had the privilege to serve over these 8 years of time I have been here.

"Talk less. Smile more."

I have given as much as I could to this community over the years, and I have never really asked for much in return. I am grateful to the Feds and USWP for hosting me in their respective political parties. To EZ Company, Seal Team 6, and Canon Cockers for allowing me to participate in their leadership teams, I am eternally thankful. To this community, I have appreciated all the insightful conversations we have had via PM, wall feeds, IRC, and Discord. Those are memories I will hold for a lifetime.

"I want to talk about what I have learned, the hard-won wisdom I have earned."

The strength in any community, especially this one, is the diversity of its people. Here, we have such a strength that it is often easy to forget how much of this is role playing, and how much is real. It is for this reason that I am stepping back from the prominence of roles that I have played in this game over the years. I have tried to enrich this community during my time here, and I find myself really wondering if I have or have not. It is my sincere hope that those who I have had interactions with, have received some benefit from those discussions. I know I have hurt some feelings, and for that I am truly sorry. We all come here for entertainment, and if you walk away from your time here feeling hurt, then it is not really entertaining, is it?

"If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on. It outlives me when I'm gone."

Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree. And no one shall make them afraid. I want to sit under my own vine and fig tree. A moment alone in the shade. As I mentioned earlier, I have really been reflecting on my time in this community and the variety of roles in which I have had the honor to serve. I am none the more weary from my time in the various administrations and government roles than any other player who has dedicated so many years of their life to this community. I want you ALL to get involved, if you have not already. And I want ALL of those who posess the ability to give others the opportunity to get involved to do so eagerly, with an upright zeal!

"I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors."

I made mistakes, a plenty, in this game. We all have. It is through those mistakes and the wisdom which we earn in committing them, that we learn about ourselves and we are offered the opportunity to make corrections. I am hopeful that this community will look upon my mistakes with indulgence, that the faults of incompetent ability will be consigned to oblivion, as I myself will soon be.

I have not yet decided what will come of my existence in this community, but for the time being I will continue to be content to retreat to the enjoyment of the sweet partaking in the midst of my fellow citizens.

And so I invite each of you...

"One last time...relax, have a drink with me, one last time."

Your Humbled Servant,