User blog comment:Amberflower/Don't Leave!/@comment-1839575-20130328225622

Amberflower, I can understand where you're coming from with this blog - but what you have to remember is that a lot of us are really quite old and have been here for a very long time. You and a lot of other people here have just joined the wiki - you're in that 'honeymoon period' where you love it and can't imagine your life without it. Some of you are between twelve and thirteen, a lot of you are younger, you love Warriors and you love to write, and all of that is great.

But some of us are fifteen/sixteen/seventeen, have been here for three years or more, and will, at some stage, need to start living our lives. You don't expect Fork to come on here the day she gets married (which I'm not saying she HAS to do, LOL) and blog about it, do you? You don't expect me to still be editing on here when I have a baby to look after? Or Red when she buys her own house? Or me over the next two years, when I do my AST tests to get an ATAR score which will allow me to go to university?

What I'm saying is, sure, your blog has a point - but we all have to grow up sometime. We will not be here forever - that's a fact. We lose interest in Warriors, want to write our own stories more than fanfiction, feel like spending time with people outside the computer more than within it. And that's healthy and natural and good for us. So don't begrudge Arti or Bananaface or anyone their right to leave - because all they're doing is living their life. As the members on here who are older begin to leave, more noobs will join, which is a cycle that I've already seen on this wiki. Many of you won't remember the multitudes who used to be so active on here and now are gone - and for a while the wiki was kind of deserted - but it didn't last, and it never will.

So don't complain because people leave - just welcome new ones with open arms. The wiki will never shut down because an influx of new people come every day (seriously, it's crazy) and maybe just accept the fact that you're the next generation and will eventually function without a lot of people on here. And they'll be happy doing whatever else it is they decided to do.

We can't live out our lives on the internet.

And wow, that comment got longer than I intended.