Nostalgia sucks.
 

I was just cleaning out my computer and i found a load of random files full of poems, letters and things that all my old friends on RYL made me yeeeeears ago. Now i feel all nostalgic and sad about the people who i don't speak to anymore and i have no idea how to get in cotact with most of them again. I've just been through some old MSN convos aswell, i've spoken to SO many people from here over the years and i can't help but wonder what happened to them all.

I kinda wish there was a post where all the oldschool RYL'ers could leave us a note or something to let us know they arent dead.

I think too much.

I love youuuuu

...and that's all I've got. I know how you feel. So many people I met here have disappeared. :(

tis true....i miss so many ppl and cnt stand to delete an email...curretnly i have 4 discs from one friend i met when i first joined 4 41/2 years ago [time to make another] and a seciond dear friend i have...idk how many...but i cantbear to reply and then delete them...so i ahve saved them to disc and i can read them whenever i want...
hard to believe so may are gone...
sorry but io miss the community feeling of the old ryl...THAT was a 'family'....
sad very sad
romp

Hi ya,

I understand how you are feeling as I've been through the same experience. People move on, we just have to accept it, but people are never forgotten, those experience last for life and there will always be a time in each of their lives that they will remember the times they had with you and how much it meant to them.

I think you ought not to go through them anymore, just put them away somewhere and out of the way because clearly it's upsetting you. You must also consider the possibility that these people have changed, and even if you did get back in touch with them, you may not even like what you find, and this has also happened to me before too. I think you should keep those memories dear to you but leave them as memories. Look forward now to making new friends to share a likewise or better experience :)

Take Care.

yeah.
over the years, i must have spoken to literally hundreds of different people.
i remember there were people i was really really close to back when i first joined, and now i can't even remember their screennames. they could still be here for all i know.
i doubt many/any of them are dead, jools. just moved on with their life, i guess.
it's nice to see you back, if anything.
x.

JOOLS.
OMFG.
How the HELL are you?!
=P

Pointless post of the day number oooooooooone out of the way.

p.s I found an epic picture of me and Goodall the other day. Made me snort and think I should probably send it to you,but really,it was THAT bad.
If you've got old email convos,you've got email addys...

xxx

Nostalgia does suck.
That's about all I have to say x

It's true. I've spoken to So Many RYLers over the time I've been on here, most of whom I probably wouldn't even remember & they probably wouldn't remember me.
It's sad really.

I know the feeling love.... especially when you have no idea what went wrong between you :(

*hugs*

I know exactly how you feel. I've been looking at some of the old meet photos and it made me all weepy. Same with chat. And the atmosphere. And everything.
Man I miss the old days..

I was thinking about old people from here the other day, wondering how things were for them and stuff.
Maybe some of them are still are here, i dunno.

Send it! I wanna see! I've got some cracking photos from some of our first RYL meets, i may have to put them on Facebook for a laugh. Half of those email adresses don't seem to work/exist anymore, it was a long time ago. =(

I don't normally get like this, it was just a bit of a shock to the system to find all those files and have all those memories come flooding back. I'd forgotten that i even had them. I know most of the people i used to know are probably fine but i still wonder sometimes.

Ah well, nevermind.

Goodall! Haha, I remember him.

Yeah, Jools, it's nice to see you popping back, like Linda said. I know what you mean though.

most of it feels like it's so long ago it didn't really happen. Like it's all in my head, somehow. I know how you feel, though, really. Weird to think of all the memories.

lots of ruin'er/early recover'ers have come out of the woodwork recently, that i've noticed.
&by lots i mean three. (jools, rosie & megan/kiri).

mm, I go through phases, really. I've never officially left... but similarly I probably won't be around for that long either. I'll be back, though, inevitably.

I was wondering about Goodall and some others the last two weeks. I have lots of stuff saved since I used to save posts and threads I was in or liked and just replace hard drives when they are full.

i wish i had the tolerance to leave to be completley honest.

Most annoying thing is I just think how great it would make them feel to realize people were thinking about them and missing them and yet we have no way to tell them :(

It should be ok to post these since they were used as posters all over (take em down if not of course) - from 2004 around: