User blog comment:Serza5/Now that's a pondering; my future./@comment-53539-20140722072208/@comment-32500188-20140722102720

^^ This. I've been trying to come up with the right way to respond to Serza's case, but you've pretty much hit the nail on the head with what you're saying here, Angel. (^-^)

Indeed, it's terribly hard to break away from what you're used to and then find something to fill in the void once you do. It's a time where you just find yourself spinning on your heels now that a part of your routine has been relieved and you have so much more time that you just don't know what to do with it. Sometimes, you get lucky and it doesn't take too much time afterwards to have a new interest, but other times, it takes much longer and you tend to gravitate back to where you what you were trying to avoid.

On the flip side, it also can be just as hard to stay around a place or in a situation that tends to cause more grief and frustration for one's self. The last thing I would want anyone would be remaining stuck in this type of situation where they can't fully enjoy themselves or be able to feel at ease. It's been a pretty rough ride at times within the past several months alone, so I can understand if Serza feels this just isn't something she wants to deal with anymore.

Even with that, overall everyone just has different experiences, and there's really no sure-fire way to say that it "works out" the way people say it will... it's more or less a matter of exploration of one's self in terms of what would make life on the internet so much easier to deal with, and whether you're ready to go forth with "finding new frontiers to conquer" in terms of new interests.

@Serza: I truly wish I could better express my thoughts on this, but really, everything I tend to type up in your blogs seems to be on the lines of "you're not the only one/I'd miss you if you leave" sort of thing, and I'm pretty sure you're sick of that as well. But I do hope you keep in mind that even though it's a small number of things or users that you feel you can no longer deal with here, there are a good amount of folks here who still appreciate what you've done up until now in terms of input and contributions to the wiki, even if some things didn't work as originally planned... so no matter which way you decide to go, we'll support the decision you make in the end. :-)