So, today I have finally left this group I have known for two years.
We have had much fun together. We have written a collaborative work that rivals Greek epics in length and dedication. We have had hours after hours of discussing, debating, even outright arguing and finger-pointing in topics of interest. They have taught me a good portion of what I know today, and I like to think that I have taught some of them at least half as much as what they have taught me as a group.
All good things have to end, however. We have had rifts and disagreements since late last year, problems that never really got resolved. As difference widened, so did my - and a few other's - interest waned. For half a year after that I tried to hang around to enjoy what vestige of the old time that still remained. I was not happy with what I saw. In that sense, my decision today is more or less an inevitability. I can only be thankful, then, for two things: I have left in good will with a smile rather than in a ****storm, and I still manage to hold on the contact details of those I talked the most to.
Life goes on, but it will be long before I can find another group as close to me as the one I have just left. Maybe even when I have left the internet and become a full-fledged, busy, working adult with a wife and two children I'd not see something the like of this group again. But such is life - what begins, however sweet and memorable, will end. Time goes on and one have to live with it, for good or ill.
Disclaimer: All of this happened online. Insert "LOL PATHETIC" at your discretion. But I really need to let this out, for despite being friends I met online I were closer to this group than pretty much every other friend I knew in real life.
