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I Feel Sad Right Now

I feel more and more alienated from the people on this site. Have the people who used to post authentic, meaningful, thoughtful stories just given up and started posting twitter-esque one liners, or has everyone with something worthwhile to say just given up on the site and moved on? And if they have moved on, then where did they move on to? Because as shallow as this site has become, I still haven't found anything else that's any deeper. Is this just who we are as a species now?

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PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F

It can be disheartening to put yourself out there. When I write I write for me but when I put that very sacred piece of my soul out there for others to gaze upon it can be the subject of ridicule and judgment and that can sting a little. I can understand why the core would be a bit hollow here. For many it's a place for silliness and laughs to escape the very real, painful world they're forced to exist in...not to be reminded of the struggles that exist in the hearts of many.

BlueDiver · 41-45, M

I get that - I recognize that different people come to SW for different reasons. I don't think that there's anything wrong with that, even though their reasons don't resonate with me personally. What I miss are the days where the people who come here for the same reasons I do were as common as the silly-laughers, instead of now where it's at best a 90%-10% split (and that's me being generous).

PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F

Yeah, but it's pretty much the offspring of EP and it's still very much in it's infantile state. I think maturity will naturally come with time even though the shenanigans will always be present.

BlueDiver · 41-45, M

Maybe, though I suspect and fear that what SW has become is just part of a larger degradation toward triviality that was already present on EP, and that if anything is irrevocably worse here because the questions and stories have been largely merged together.

PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F

I understand, Hun.