As the clock ticks down to my last day here at SG I find myself thinking more and more about just how much this sit has really meant to me and how, truly dramatically, it has changed my life.
As will undoubtedly be the case for many of you, I came here for the gorgeous naked girls. Very quickly I discovered that the site was so much more though... It was amazing! I loved the News Wire, the reviews, the groups and boards (Silliness forever!! :-P ). All of which were made great by an amazing community of people who, by and large, are the most positive thinking, passionate, and brilliant group of people I have ever encountered.
I met many great people through the site, had fun meets and ended up at parties and conventions I may otherwise never have found myself at. It was an SG (Otoki) who introduced me to OK cupid, the dating site where I met my fiancee. Which is easily the biggest and best thing that has ever happened to me!
SG was my go to place. My “local bar” where I came to unwind after work, to shoot the shit with friends and strangers. When I talk about it now however, I always refer to it in the past tense.
While change is inevitable, and to be expected, this last round of transformations has sucked the life out of the SG community. So many members have left or been zotted. So many great people gone. The community just isn't what it used to be. The boards/groups have been decimated. The news wire died ages ago. Now it's just... well, naked girls and almost nothing more.
Leaving this place comes with a bag full of mixed emotions. My whole life is changing right now. I'm getting married, working towards a new job, for the first time ever I'm seriously working on my future. Something I had honestly had never really worried about before; I just went with the flow.
It has almost become a symbolic thing. A door on my past is closed while new and exciting opportunities are opening up in front of me. To illustrate it, I turn to something else SG has fostered in me: a love for Doctor Who ;-) Because, well... This is kind of how I feel right now:
The World has moved on. It is time for me to move with it. While it is sad to say goodbye to the past, and there is a part of me that really wants to hold on to it, I am at a point in my life where I no longer feel the need to look back but to look forward.
Time to go.
I want to thank all of you who made this site what it was.
All the girls for sharing their beauty with us.
All the sillies for their fantastic comments and gripes.
All those I have never met who helped hold together a community that I am proud to have been part of.
And all my friends.
“This song is ending but the story never ends”
Farewell.