Man, pardon me for being in a sentimental mood today. But I've been through a lot lately. Cut me some slack if you guys can.
But I think I have earned a card to say this: I want TFF back.
I fell in love with this forum the very moment I came across it for the first time, about Christmas time 2014. I had bought my first American Fender.
Damn, why don't we all just gather 'round the fire and enjoy being here? I mean it's a hell out there. My family nearly died. I got affected and thank God my wife, daughter and stepdaughter didn't. I nearly lost my parents. Shitstorm level crazy times.
Some of us are elsewhere. Facebook or whatever. Some aren't and won't go there.
Why just let this sink and die, after all the times we made efforts to keep the place going? I gave money. Many did. That was the least important part, IMHO. This is about love.
Been thinking a lot about the meaning of everything lately, still recovering from a diagnosed Covid related PTSD and the conclusion I came to is that what really matters are the people we befriend and love.
Anyway. Just saying. I wouldn't want to see TFF go totally stale, and I miss every one of you guys who have been keeping it alive.
Why not just forget politics, stop standing our own grounds and doing whatever else is driving members away? Why not just coming back and posting about whatever we're doing, just because we do like each other's interactions? Please, guys: let's stick together. And bring Chuck back (even Telebob is back for Christ's sake).
Other forums and social media just don't do the trick, because we're friends here and it just doesn't make sense to lose that.