Goodbye and hello
I've created a community for us to all stay in touch. It's open to anyone who's ever been a part of the JRRP Universe. I really hope you will take a look... and it's my dearest of hopes you'll want to join. Whether or not you're staying through JPRP, everyone is more than welcome here.
jrrplives
More about this here at jraged.
Just a few last thoughts from me.
I love this community. I've been here almost since the beginning. I've watched so many things happen... seen so many people come and go. I've fallen in love and I've had my heart broken. I've made incredible friends and I've had painful experiences. There have been so many highs and lows I can't even begin... Throughout everything, I've maintained an unbreakable relationship and I'm very very grateful for it.
I really wanted to write at length, to be reflective, introspective, to look back, to really think over these past five years... But I can't right now. I'm a mess right now. In time, I will. I still have a little of it before my own fifth year anniversary here, anyway.
There are many people here who've meant the world to me who... well, they aren't here anymore. They've moved on or away in all the different ways we can. I still love them and think of them. And miss them.
And I'm so glad that there are many people here who are here. Right now. People I just love and cherish and am so happy for in my life. You have all really enriched me.
If there's anything I can just go ahead and say about these past five years, it's that I've emotionally matured far beyond anything I expected. I've grown up, so to speak. I'm not twenty-seven anymore. Winkwink.
I always thought I would just want to be young forever. Twenty-seven felt like the right age to me. It felt like who I was. So I ran with it. I've come to realize, though, that aging isn't a bad thing at all. Both through my time in judou with a class of people in their sixties and above... and through my own experiences here that have been showing me more and more lately that I'm just not all that young anymore... and I'm happier that way.
Sorry for my little white lie. I think I'll go ahead and turn twenty-eight this year.
I'm happy to have grown up. I have everyone here to thank for it. I was such a mess five years ago... clingy and manic-depressive and insecure. Now, even though at the moment I feel so unhealthy I don't really want to move and am temporarily a mess, I know that overall, I've changed. I'm calm, on average. I'm content, for sure. I'm secure in the love I have and the love I give. I'm full of joy and gratitude instead of fear and worry. I've really, really found true happiness.
Hontou ni hontou ni arigatou. I'm so grateful to everyone here for being a part of this place.
I wanted this to include so many things to individuals who have touched my life, but my time's been taken up and I will have to save that for now, and hope my messages will still reach you.
I love you, JRRP.
jrrplives
More about this here at jraged.
Just a few last thoughts from me.
I love this community. I've been here almost since the beginning. I've watched so many things happen... seen so many people come and go. I've fallen in love and I've had my heart broken. I've made incredible friends and I've had painful experiences. There have been so many highs and lows I can't even begin... Throughout everything, I've maintained an unbreakable relationship and I'm very very grateful for it.
I really wanted to write at length, to be reflective, introspective, to look back, to really think over these past five years... But I can't right now. I'm a mess right now. In time, I will. I still have a little of it before my own fifth year anniversary here, anyway.
There are many people here who've meant the world to me who... well, they aren't here anymore. They've moved on or away in all the different ways we can. I still love them and think of them. And miss them.
And I'm so glad that there are many people here who are here. Right now. People I just love and cherish and am so happy for in my life. You have all really enriched me.
If there's anything I can just go ahead and say about these past five years, it's that I've emotionally matured far beyond anything I expected. I've grown up, so to speak. I'm not twenty-seven anymore. Winkwink.
I always thought I would just want to be young forever. Twenty-seven felt like the right age to me. It felt like who I was. So I ran with it. I've come to realize, though, that aging isn't a bad thing at all. Both through my time in judou with a class of people in their sixties and above... and through my own experiences here that have been showing me more and more lately that I'm just not all that young anymore... and I'm happier that way.
Sorry for my little white lie. I think I'll go ahead and turn twenty-eight this year.
I'm happy to have grown up. I have everyone here to thank for it. I was such a mess five years ago... clingy and manic-depressive and insecure. Now, even though at the moment I feel so unhealthy I don't really want to move and am temporarily a mess, I know that overall, I've changed. I'm calm, on average. I'm content, for sure. I'm secure in the love I have and the love I give. I'm full of joy and gratitude instead of fear and worry. I've really, really found true happiness.
Hontou ni hontou ni arigatou. I'm so grateful to everyone here for being a part of this place.
I wanted this to include so many things to individuals who have touched my life, but my time's been taken up and I will have to save that for now, and hope my messages will still reach you.
I love you, JRRP.