I feel like I'm drifting away from this site more and more lately. My experience is changing and unfortunately not for the better. Friendships have drifted away or died a horrible death, people I came to know and like and talk to daily have moved on, I feel less and less inclined to comment or submit anything, and even in the chatrooms I hardly say anything to anyone these days.
I don't know what to do. Or if I should do anything at all. I'm not even sure what keeps me logging in every day. Maybe a false hope that things will improve.
Props to anyone who gets the title.
Two years ago, I was dead keen on volunteering, since I liked the site so much and wanted to give back to it in some way (a way that didn't involve spending my money, since I had none xD). Now, it'd be cool, but I'd feel sorta distant from it, which would quickly suck the joy from it.
My advice? Don't log on for a few days. See how much you think of dA, and the people you know from it. Then, y'know, hopefully you can figure out what to do. I figured out that I should get right back into art, and take craploads of photos, since occasional comments and such would make me feel pretty good about myself, you know? So I'd probably enjoy my time here, instead of staring at really old comments etc that I just haven't replied to.
Hopefully, doing so would give you some sort of bearing on what keeps you coming back to dA every day to do nothing at all, and you could either give it up, or work more on the parts you like. Either way, it would resolve the problem, and that's a start.
Text wall, fire! Sorry about that. I guess when I don't write for a while, I let it all out at once.
Just know that no matter what path you eventually chose: people here love, value and highly respect you.
People drift away from a back to things all the time. If you're feeling at a little bit distant that's okay. If you leave I'll miss your amazing work and your amusing journals but hopefully you'll leave us a link to keep in touch. (It's still my hearts desire to visit NZ)
Atleast the jellybeans will always be there.
It looks like YOU are about to change instead of the people around you at this moment in time... and my advice for that is to go with the flow. Allow the change to happen.