How are your experiences here compared to Experience Project?

I'm just wondering what similarities/differences you've expereinced on this website compared to EP? Good and bad. Just for personal curiosity to find out other users opinions.

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Elandra77

When I was on EP I had a small, close circle of friends. It provided for a very intimate setting. We wrote a lot and we shared a lot. And we supported each other in the experiences we wrote. It was not preaching to the choir, as we would oft hear what we were least expecting. The type of story and experience I write were def EP fare!

Here, there is no closeness and no intimacy. Yes, some from that old circle are here- and we may or may not be friends, but they are different. As if they are attempting to start again and that their EP life was a mistake. I get that. BUT--that is also NOT ME!

I have found that SW is NOT the venue for my experiences. No one cares to read a story or poem written form the heart. They want 1-2 lines of humor and glibness. Or sexual content or references. Rudeness even seems to be accepted. (Tennessee?
Alabama? Ammonia?)SW is an entire different clientele.

My experiences , except for music, are NOT SW fare. So I have stopped writing. Or reposting- as SW is taking shier good old time to import. Here there is no choir, and no audience. So why even bother?

MysticMermaid456 · 26-30, F

@Elandra77: I resonate so much with this comment... The entire reason I joined EP was to find different people who experienced similar circumstances that I was in because I craved closeness and connection and honestly, I wanted help and knowing that someone understood did help.

But my experience on here is quite different. I think the right word would be, kind of... superficial? Does that makes sense? Like, there is no layer underneathe... there's no depth... which is a shame, because that was such an important feature of EP.

I'd love to experience the close connections here that I had on EP but sadly, as you said, the majority of my inbox is people looking for sexual content and stuff like that.

I hope you find what you're looking for some day though and, if you'd like, I hope we can be friends because you seem nice and I love poetry as well as personal experience stories shared from the heart and root of a person.

Elandra77

@MysticMermaid456: I am glad then, that I am not alone in my feelings. So many take issue when I describe it as having intimacy. But when I joined , in 2011 to the end- there was. 2011- late 2013 was a magical time. In 2012-13 EP started to destroy itself form the inside out. Many of my early friend were those that were active 2009-10. And less so when I came. saratogagirl for one. Paganpoet for another. But so many came later, when the site has been destroyed, and to them they saw no intimacy-

I joined as I needed to learn to love again and to trust again. And I needed one to teach me. And to find the shattered pieces of me and lovingly put them back together. One did that.

But they didn't stop there.

They made me MUCH BETTER. And for that I am eternally grateful.

Yes, superficial makes sense. There is no underlayer. But it is also a bit unfair. Why? Because the site is 13 months old. And I wonder HOW P was in 2007 , after 13 months. Are we ahead(SW) , or behind? BUT-EP in those days had TONS of features this place lacks. Horoscopes, mood music, Dream interpretations, confessions, blogs, favorites. cards, tributes, gestures, libraries, online games, and more. So I agree with you on that. BUT--in 5 years time , in SW's 2011 period, I wonder where the site will be? It may develop and closeness and intimacy may be achieved. But I do not see it. I just wish I could write, as I write light hearted romance.

You seem sweet. And you write with heart, passion and conviction. And love- I can hear it in your words as much as I can feel it in your being. Your heart, mind and soul. And that is a litmus test for me. And those hings, to me are far more appealing in another than any picture or sexual innuendo.

This is an EXACT copy of an EP post of mine.(That took some work!) Sans the comments . And with another preface. It got read. But that is because so many loved her besides me. This is my writing style.

https://similarworlds.com/9357455-I-Love-Hongruilin/689577-After-this-dear-lady-left-EP-for-her-own-reasons-I

MysticMermaid456 · 26-30, F

Wow. You had such a deep connection then? I can feel it in your writing, it's really quite a profound energy would you say? I really hope you find that again, it sounds so rare and beautiful but I'm positive that if you allow yourself to find it once more the possibilities will present themselves to you. The universe always provides.

I joined under quite similar circumstances I would say so I understand the relief of feeling like you've found that solace. I can only imagine the difficulty you must have felt when the website started to change or was taken down taking into regard the situations that lead you to finding the website.

I'm really so glad that you expanded so much and allowed yourself to grow with love and light. You must be so content with the memories of EP and how the website served your being for a time.

Oh, thank you so, so much! Your words are so kind and heart-felt. I really appreciate that. And yes, I feel the same way - I'd much rather find a connection here with a person's being rather than looking for a sexual pass time... I don't really like that at all about this website but I suppose you get that everywhere on-line.

You seem like such an enlightened, beautiful person and I'm glad we got to communicate here. I'm thankful for you sharing your story with me and I look forward to us sharing more stories in the future hopefully. I'll read your poem now, I can't wait to see what your writing style is like!

All the best.