User blog:Thebiggesttdifan/Thanks

Five years ago today, my mom died. Five years ago I was a wiki member, but it wasn't exactly the Golden Age. Although it had a stellar community then--people like Nalyd and Sprink and Sunshine and Gigi--Chatango hadn't really been discovered yet, and there was no way to talk to people except through talk pages (hell, blogs didn't even exist yet). When my mom died, I was nervous of how to approach the wiki about it. I regarded them as my friends, I supposed, but I was still a little worried about the whole idea of telling a bunch of strangers that my mom had died. At the time of her death, I posted that my mom had died on the wiki's shoutbox. All I got in reply was a message from Tdifan1234--"Sorry to hear that, TBTDIF! DX"

But since then, the wiki has grown and matured greatly, and communication has improved, and I've told many more people about my mom. I'm sure everyone here knows about her, but I must say, thank you all for the kindness and sympathy and support you've shown me when I told you my mother is dead. Usually I don't need much of it, but at times, especially now, it feels good to know that in the five years since it's happened, I've never received an insult or a skeptical reply from those who I've told. Everyone has reacted with sincere kindness.

Thank you all for that.