Hi, Dave ~ I feel terribly and extremely saddened that you are hurting so much; that things are the way that they are, right now, in this situation. Please know that I completely understand what you mean about feeling unpopular, and also when you feel you pour your heart and soul into a video to share — and no one seems to care. I feel that way a lot, too, and it is awful. It leaves one feeling insignificant, forgotten; dare I also say, uncared for as well. It hurts...A LOT. I actually just wrote a whole related-post in which I addressed this sort of thing on UU a few days ago - it was, literally, a page long post. A day or so later, I went back and deleted out 98% of what I had written in that post as I felt it was sort of futile for me to have written what I did. :-(
When I was a ‘regular’ in the SOTU years and years ago, I always watched TCK (and Mel!) vids and loved them! I have learned so much from you in all of those years, and please know that your videos have not only inspired me, but they have UPLIFTED me! They’ve helped me crawl out of very dark places in life! So I need to say “thank you” for the light you’ve brought into my life, Dave!
I’m not sure if I ever shared this with you before, but when I felt hurt by certain events (and people) on UU years ago, I left the Forum back in 2013, except for a visit or two, until May of this year. When I decided to bail on Facebook in early-mid April of this year, I felt a pull to try to revisit UU and to try to find community, here, again. The way that I look at things, I feel we all have history on UU together; there have been many peaks and valleys during that time. I try to look at this as that’s how we can all grow together, learn from each other; that it’s all part of that wonderful, sticky glue that holds us together in friendships and in community. Please come back and know that you are very, very missed!!! YOU are an integral, much loved part of this community!!!