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Hello all you wonderful journal-readifying people!
I hope you're having a wonderful day heart

And.. woah.
I was investigating profiles and stuff yesterday, and did you know that I, like.. never post -anywhere- anymore ><
It's like Gaia's slowly shrivelling up and dying, and no one's really doing anything about it.
Well.. within my general posting-group anyway. No one posts in all the usually-busy threads ><

But.. hey... whatever.

And I haven't been going to PA nearly as often, because I can never tell if I've already polled in a thread or not....
But hey... everything has to end somewhere...
And I have been on gaia for close to three years... >>;

So it's pretty much time to move on.
........ after fairy wings.
Sometime soon I'm going to inventory-sale my stuff, or possibly give it to people ((when I work up the courage, anyway >>; ))
And then it'll be bye-bye Gaia.

I guess I'll miss it a bit, but Gaia's really gone downhill recently, and I don't like it anymore. I really don't

Gaia used to be a place full of stuff to do, and I used to love everything about it. I used to be truely happy here, but now I'm just.. not.
Gaia's been making me sad lately, because the only reason I've really been here is to get letters... And I've gotten so far behind with them, since my trip to England.
Everyone else has gone - moved on. Zep's done what I should've done a long time ago - phased out the computer from her life. Katri's moved on to sites other than Gaia, and most other people have migrated to Zantarni.

I personally don't like Zantarni. It's got too many rules. Too much like Neopets.

Slowly I've just grown out of what I used to do here - avatars, item-whoring, quiz-ing, art-arena-watching, polling... just.. everyting.
It just doesn't have that sparkle anymore.

Basically what I'm trying to say is.. I should start getting a life.

I remember when I had just started, and I wanted to buy my friend a present, but at the same time I had put a bid on fox ears, which I really really wanted...
So I put a bid on an AFK, not realising that I also had a bid on the fox ears.
And I had to sell all my clothes ((which was pretty much just a top and two pairs of pants)) to be able to afford it.
But I got both of them, and gave Mo her AFK, and I was very proud of myself.

But then I was naked, and so I went into this forum that I'd been kinda posting in for a while, and posted a lot because I wanted enough gold for an elegant blue dress or something, and this really cool guy who'd always been really nice to me ((called Arys and then some random numbers)) went and bought it for me. I was soo happy.

But then Arys left.. He stopped Gaia-ing because of year 12 and never came back..

And then Katri made the Den, and these two guys called Aisu and RD ((Cornysomthing g Randyus or something xDD )) came in and talked for a while. Aisu was really cool, but RD was such a jerk.
They stopped coming for a while, after they realised how immature we really were. But sometimes Aisu sends Zep and Katri presents for christmas or stuff. They were better friends with him than me...

But me an' Mo ((another one of my used-to-gaia-but-left friends)) decided to make forum together - called Dragon and Moon's Fluffy Cloud Room...
And that was when we met Blue. Blue was really cool ((Bluedragon80)) and nice, but he signed up for some army thingo somewhere, and just.. left. Blue was with us from page 1, and sometime between when the CR started and Blue left, Mo left too. Because she had too much school work or something.
So it was just me with a whole forum, because no one else ever came. And so it slowly died.
I mean, sure, all the people who post in all four of our little circle of threads posted there, but it just wasn't the same after they left. It wasn't special.
It's still around, but most posts are like.. a week apart or something.

And then somewhere along the line, Suzuka invited me to join PA.
That was pretty cool of her, because it like.. inspired me to stay on Gaia for longer than I would've otherwise.
So I joined PA for a while, but I'm generally really shy, so I never posted. But just lurking there did it for me. But now no one really posts, and it's dying too..

And Osi's migrated to Zantarni, and so I can't have long random conversations with her anymore.. and it's just.... cry

I apologise for this - I know you probably didn't like reading about my life on Gaia.. but I honestly can't imagine a life without it. I've been here for almost as long as I've lived in Australia, and it's just.. a part of life for me now.

But I'm trying to get over it, because i know I'll have to someday, and the longer I stay here, the sadder it's going to make me.

If you look around here, you can see that Gaia is dying.
The Gaia I knew, anyway.

It's been covered up with myspace-like profiles, and neopet-like games.
I remember when they introduced fishing, and everyone was sleeping over at my house, and we turned on my computer and everyone was like 'omg what's this!? kind of thing...
Hell.. I even remember when Gaia was mainly a linklist and when they had personals and -that- was a looooong time ago..

It's so different now. It's like the admins are deliberately trying to kick off all the 03ers, because they want more new people.... More 8 year old people.

I know I probably shouldn't say that, because I was.. 11? when I joined, but I'm pretty sure that I was more intelligent when I was 11 than most of the people that are joining nowadays are.

It makes me really sad to see what Gaia's becoming..

So this is goodbye. I will get Zep or someone to help me choose what to give and what to sell, and then I'll be gone. If you really want to talk to me, add me on MSN ((shattered_fantasy@hotmail.com)) but I don't think that's really going to happen.

Shells - It was great to meet you, and you're a wonderful person. I'm just sorry I didn't talk to you more while I was here...
Say bye to Kav for me?

Well.. I'm not really going yet. I'll be here until I can work up the courage/persuade Zep to work up the courage for me to leave. But this is my goodbyes in advance, just in case.
So..

Goodbye Gaia.
It was nice knowing you....