Why leaving this place and civ is a good idea...

[Heraclitus]

First let me start off by saying that the apolyton civilization site is one of the finest communities on the internet.

Secondly, let me say that I must, for my own good, leave it and civ.

People here are semi literate and occasionally even prone to sudden bursts of reason, making this site a fine example of the very best kind of forum one can find these days. Most of you don't know who TF I am, since I was here only a year or so. The truth is I've been on poly for years, since 2000 at least, but I quit several times, most of the time starting as anew after a few months with a DL account. But I'm not really writing this for you guys, I'm witting this for myself, every time I feel tempted to check out what's up on this site, I'll read this, I'll remember how I felt writting this. Its just to damn hard to resist the temptation to come here, and to stay longer than you planned. It took someone rather important in my life to help me figure out that Civ, poly and a constellation of other things are eating away at my time, time I never will never get back. Time that I don't have as much as most people, so I've decided that it is better spent full filing obligations and being with loved ones.

Objectively I didn't spend that much time here but we aren't all made the same. I suddenly have much less time left, God I wish I had more, but not all of us can be like Morgan.

That is all the explanation you will get, since it is all that I need to remind myself, the rest is private...

Bye, love to all, even teh trolls.
-H

For those who didn't bother to read the above:
I won't post on poly anymore and I'll change my account password to something random I won't remember.

[Theben]

No! You can't go! We'll give you more hugs if you'll stay!

[chequita guevara]

Best wishes and . . . you'll be back.

[Dinner]

Best wishes.

[Sprayber]

By reading some of the "I'm leaving" threads one might assume poly is sort of like those friends you have to stay away from least you relapse into your drinking or drug binging ways. There was a time when I spent a little too much time posting and reading things here especially around the time of my fiance's death and it kept me anchored to something but having a family cured me of that fairly quickly. Unless your trying to stay away from the internet entirely, I don't see a reason why poly should be more addicting above and beyond anything else online.

But like the OP stated, I believe leaving threads are more for the one leaving than everyone else and if it brings about some sort of closure than I hope it helps. Besides like che so wisely stated, you will be back .

[Wiglaf]

I am leaving soon too, it is just that a big part of my job involves reading intelligence reports through email and that gets boring so I open up tabs here and forget about the intelligence which usually goes unnoticed for a really long time thanks to my smooth talking skills, I even convinced someone once that he had sent me pictures of his daughter once instead of the report -- AND HE HAS NO DAUGHTER -- this is the extent to which I am a master of the trade. He was like, Oh , Maybe I sent you a picture lying around my desktop, which made him embarrassed, not me. See how I did that?

[ZEE]

Re: Why leaving this place and civ is a good idea...

Originally posted by Heraclitus

For those who didn't bother to read the above:
I won't post on poly anymore and I'll change my account password to something random I won't remember.

1) Thanks for teh AAHZ-Summary™

2)I spend 3x moar time on ForumWarz than i do on Poly

3)Just PM Ming and have him give you a GP (Voluntary Ban, named after TCO who does this all the time.) Hell, Even AAHZ did this once. That way you cannot post or even use the search function.

4)Safe travels.

[-Jrabbit]

Heraclitus -- It's been good. Best wishes to you.

[Lancer]

Eh, as long as you have a life other than Poly there's no biggy about dropping in. That way you can always just do other things if you feel like tuning out. I doubt I post 1/10th the amount I posted a couple months ago, but that hasn't changed my real life much. Post when you feel like it, drop in to visit friends, otherwise don't give it too much energy.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
I am leaving soon too, it is just that a big part of my job involves reading intelligence reports through email and that gets boring so I open up tabs here and forget about the intelligence which usually goes unnoticed

We've noticed.

[Panag]

Hi ,

we need you , we cant do it without you , ....

what will you do , you will be lost , ...

Have a nice day

[Lorizael]

Did anyone else get the impression from that that Heraclitus has a terminal disease?

[Sirotnikov]

Hey man

possibly i'm the only one that read the long version.

I suddenly have much less time left, God I wish I had more,

I hope this doesn't mean what I fear it means.
If it does - thank you for sharing your time with us, and I hope it wasn't all wasted.

In any case, I wish you the best, and only hope that you are well, healthy and that you'll be back

Best of luck,
Siro.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Did anyone else get the impression from that that Heraclitus has a terminal disease?

or something, yeah

[b etor]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Did anyone else get the impression from that that Heraclitus has a terminal disease?