Posted by: lootekukur October 28, 2008
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Hahahaha...San bro,
It's almost like asking your ex to come back and have an intimate dinner with you so as to relive the bygone "romantic" days once again hahaha..
. Nothing wrong with the want, but I wonder how many exs do ACTUALLY return to their exs just because the poor guy is missing her sorely hahaha...
On a more serious note, and this is to the larger audience:
"Who Moved My Cheese?" - Spencer Johnson, MD.
I recommend this book to all. It's one of the SHORTEST reads you would ever come across (which BTW is a major plus for a lazy reader like myself) but boy, it also happens to be one of those books which come once in a while (sometimes, in a blue-moon) that actually "change" the way you look at your life (of course in the most positive of ways). It will teach you how to deal with unanticipated/undesired "changes" in life -- the changes could be big; like those in your work arena (lay-offs, demotions, transfer) or in your personal relationships front (break-ups, deaths, exits and all...) or, as I see, a small one; like here in sajha -- the so-called "good" writers leaving the place.
And the teaching from the book is not just the two words which how-so-frequently we like to tell ourselves and other people who went through the change - "Move on!". It's further beyond and more subtle than that!
Anyways, coming to the point -Sajha definitely has plummeted in quality of late and many "good" writers leaving or not-writing is one of the reasons. I myself fall short on enthusiasm to post threads these days as most of them tend to go un-noticed and/or un-discussed at the depth I would normally anticipate/want.
Apart from that, being a member of this forum for a while, I feel it's hard to get going for long in a forum where life is, for the most part, virtual. You come, shout, sing, dance, talk, read, write, analyze, listen to music... for how long? You had all the vigor to fire your keyboards while you're young but now you wish you could talk to them in person and save all your energy/time instead of replying them from behind the screen.
In this mortal world, everyone has limited cells/gusto after which the energy meter starts beeping (meaning you need to recharge or you will die) and with the energy crisis going on (gas price hike and all), you don't have much choice than to leave the place you once loved and find a life elsewhere.
In other words, we gotta accept the bitter reality which is: people die and so do posters in sajha
I think for most of the writers we're talking about in this thread, the stuffs I just told applies. I think/hope some of them are on a temporary leave only and that they will get back, once they rejuvenate themselves. But frankly speaking, even if they don't, I feel we have enough "good" writers on the horizon who would/could carry on with the legacy the others left.
Either way -- it's just a matter of time, I would think.
Best of luck and happy tihar to all !
Regards,
LooTe
It's almost like asking your ex to come back and have an intimate dinner with you so as to relive the bygone "romantic" days once again hahaha..
. Nothing wrong with the want, but I wonder how many exs do ACTUALLY return to their exs just because the poor guy is missing her sorely hahaha...On a more serious note, and this is to the larger audience:
"Who Moved My Cheese?" - Spencer Johnson, MD.
I recommend this book to all. It's one of the SHORTEST reads you would ever come across (which BTW is a major plus for a lazy reader like myself
) but boy, it also happens to be one of those books which come once in a while (sometimes, in a blue-moon) that actually "change" the way you look at your life (of course in the most positive of ways). It will teach you how to deal with unanticipated/undesired "changes" in life -- the changes could be big; like those in your work arena (lay-offs, demotions, transfer) or in your personal relationships front (break-ups, deaths, exits and all...) or, as I see, a small one; like here in sajha -- the so-called "good" writers leaving the place. And the teaching from the book is not just the two words which how-so-frequently we like to tell ourselves and other people who went through the change - "Move on!". It's further beyond and more subtle than that!
Anyways, coming to the point -Sajha definitely has plummeted in quality of late and many "good" writers leaving or not-writing is one of the reasons. I myself fall short on enthusiasm to post threads these days as most of them tend to go un-noticed and/or un-discussed at the depth I would normally anticipate/want.
Apart from that, being a member of this forum for a while, I feel it's hard to get going for long in a forum where life is, for the most part, virtual. You come, shout, sing, dance, talk, read, write, analyze, listen to music... for how long? You had all the vigor to fire your keyboards while you're young but now you wish you could talk to them in person and save all your energy/time instead of replying them from behind the screen.
In this mortal world, everyone has limited cells/gusto after which the energy meter starts beeping (meaning you need to recharge or you will die) and with the energy crisis going on (gas price hike and all
), you don't have much choice than to leave the place you once loved and find a life elsewhere. In other words, we gotta accept the bitter reality which is: people die and so do posters in sajha
I think for most of the writers we're talking about in this thread, the stuffs I just told applies. I think/hope some of them are on a temporary leave only and that they will get back, once they rejuvenate themselves. But frankly speaking, even if they don't, I feel we have enough "good" writers on the horizon who would/could carry on with the legacy the others left.
Either way -- it's just a matter of time, I would think.
Best of luck and happy tihar to all !
Regards,
LooTe