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I Love The Movie "the Sixth Sense"

When I joined EP somewhere around 2008?, I was in the last stages of isolation and depression. I was immediately picked up by people - into a growing set of real friends. We connected on different levels - great people, some of whom I argued with incessantly. I even met one face to face a few times. I wanted to actualise this strange connection...

Since EP - Relate to That, SW - it's never been the same. I connect with no-one. I make comments, I debate, I make jokes, I help or encourage people like I always have... but I don't exist here. No connections, really. Like Bruce Willis in Sixth Sense, I suddenly realise I may have actually died and am not here. It's haunting.

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BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F

I feel EXACTLY the same way. Since EP, it has never been the same! I don't quite get it, and if you ask me, I am not sure what is different really. As a matter of fact,this website is a lot more developed than EP, funny how I used to tease EP admin about the so many glitches that were there, yet I am unable to enjoy this glitch-free site! I almost started suspecting that it was the glitches there that made us love the website O.o! I even check EP from time to time, thinking to myself that it may be back by now and we don't know about it!

EP will always be EP.. it is the first place we discovered such strangely exciting, interesting and strong online connections..Like you, I've debated, laughed, teased and loved so many there.. but I no longer develop new connections since EP closed down, I am lucky to only maintain a few from EP which mattered the most to me, but any new faces I am meeting here are just temporary new faces. I keep trying to make suggestions to the admin here that would make the site more EP-like but I wonder, would they? Even if they take my suggestions into consideration, would this site be the new EP!

That place has changed my life, gave me a lot of fun and feelings that I needed a lot during a stage of my life and therefore is really unforgettable to me.

I've wanted to write a similar story like yours for long, I guess I just wrote it in the comment here, oops!

Peaches · F

@BittersweetPotato I think a lot of it is "a sign of the times." 😔 Back in the day EP was supposed to have been "the best kept secret" and there were some great writers there, but that's all changed. I got my start in interacting with people on the internet there, I was shy (believe it or not) and didn't know what to say often times. I bloomed on EP. 😊🌺 I have fond memories too, I still have a letter of appreciation from the staff there, AND an EP t-shirt.⭐️ Happy memories!

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I FINALLY found it in my album...I wish SW would fix it so we could find our pictures much easier!!!

Abstraction · 61-69, M

@Peaches If I have a complaint about SW it's that whoever put it together only understood the QA part of EP. Where are the stories? People on EP would write some beautiful pieces under different themes that you could explore via their profile or under the experience. People then defined who they were through these stories and connected with others because of it. Here they are the same as questions - I don't even bother because they are like raindrops sliding down the QA tunnel and disappearing.

Peaches · F

@Abstraction I understand what you are saying.😔But it is a different world now, and not everyone is a prolific writer so they just want to chat.☺️ There are stories here if you look for them. Fungirl has a "writers weekly challenge" if you're ever interested in that. 🙂

BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F

Ah nice letter 😃 I really thought i was the only one hung up on EP! Sometimes I wonder if my life would have turned out better have I not got introduced to EP, as I seem to have disappeared into a virtual personality surrounded by virtual things and people. Everything and everyone is just far away from ‘reality’. i had no online life whatsoever before EP and I had tried to subscribe to forums before too but I never stuck with one, I’d forget the username and password in a few days. EP is the only forum that got into me like an addiction and ever since I joined I have become a virtual person, i am not sure this is a good thing, but it is what it is.@Peaches

Peaches · F

@BittersweetPotato I had no internet experience at the time at all.😎 I don't want to get addicted to only online activities personally. I am enjoying the quiet summer days lately riding my bicycle.🚴‍♀️🌤️