Disconnect

[Zae]

"here are times where I find myself wanting to post and share things about myself on this forum, but every time I do, I can't help but think to myself, "why bother?" "  No one talks about that at all

Long story short, post what you want. Discuss what you want. Stop feeling inhibited by peoples opinions - people are always going to have opinions you don't agree with, and that's fine. You don't have to change yours, and they don't have to change theirs. If the discussion ends up changing one of your views, great! If not, still great, you had a discussion that hopefully widened your view a tad! If not yours, maybe someone elses. We're on the internet, why should you care about other peoples opinions on you? You don't know them, and more importantly, they don't know you, so it really shouldn't matter.

Just my two cents.

And 

 "It's hard to get back in here and post when it feels like everyone you were once close with here are gone or almost nonexistent" No one talks about that at all

No one talks about that point sure, but what are we supposed to say? That's something that can't be helped, it's no ones fault that morts old friends don't post here often anymore.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Can we just close this thread? All it's really doing is invalidating everything I say, which is the one of sole reasons for me feeling disconnected from this userbase in particular.

I appreciate the effort, Anoni and Peanut.

[Midnight Madness]

Locked per Original Poster's request.