User blog comment:Bocaj910/I'm Back... Maybe... Possibly... A New Beginning!... Maybe... Possibly/@comment-1874924-20110522051036

(Some of the following comments may echo TAU's post, which he made whilst I was in the middle of composing this.)

Welcome back, Bocaj. I think you're starting to see that a lot of people missed you; and I doubt that many people here would get angry at someone for taking a long hiatus. As for your loss of naivete and wanting it back, that's common enough. Kids want to be adults, largely because they think they won't get bossed around anymore (hah!); but when they reach adulthood, they find that it's not all its cracked up to be but can't go back. That, too, generally passes. In any case, you're awfully young for "lost youth" angst. At least you once had that naivete, in a way that I never did. (My mother likes to say that I was born an adult.)

You've mentioned the limitations of dial-up before. Does using the Monobook skin help at all?

As for regarding yourself as a wiki B-lister, I don't know that it's such a bad thing, especially from a user as young as you. We can't all be at the top. As W.S. Gilbert said in The Gondiliers,

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you’ll agree— When everyone is somebody Then no one’s anybody!

Besides, you were an A-lister in some respects, most notably activity. You're still well over 3,000 edits, even after the deletion of several stories lopped some 800 edits off your official total. You were also a Featured User (nee "Author"), however unusual the circumstances; and if you hadn't won in that month, you would probably have won in another month. As for the amount of traffic your stories got...well, we can't all be Sprink.