I’ve finally done it. Reached 1000 posts. It’s taken me almost two years to do, but although I don’t think I win anything or learn the secret handshake or anything like that, I count myself part of the club. I am a real Doper now.
Of course, it is (or at least was) traditional to post some fluffy little thing celebrating one’s accomplishment. I don’t post a lot of fluffy things, largely because I’m terrible at it, but I thought I’d give it a try. After all, one has to come out of one’s shell at some point, right?
And then a thought struck me: I had absolutely no idea what to say!
I could post something utterly brainless like “so I’ve reached 1000 posts! Go me!” But that seemed too fluffy for me. In coming out of one’s shell, one can go too far. And we can’t have that.
I could just answer some random GQ, like I’ve been doing over the previous 2 years. But that seemed too bland. All work and no play makes g8rguy a boring poster with a silly name. This is admittedly a small step up for me, as in real life I’m a boring person with a boring name, but the fact remains that in trying to keep from going too far out of one’s shell, one can err on the other side. And we can’t have that, either.
I could post some glurge about how the SDMB has changed my life, but I would be lying, and while I may be a boring poster with a silly name, at least I’m an honest boring poster with a silly name.
I could post recollections of two years of posts, or something like that, but I can think of nothing that I was involved in and that was particularly memorable. Boring poster, remember? Recollections are fine and dandy, but they’d darn well better be interesting or there’s no point in bringing them up.
So I was stuck. Couldn’t think of anything to post on this momentous occasion. Hmm…
It’s funny. This board is not one of the most important things in my life, nor should it be (I’m an honest boring poster with a silly name and sense of perspective, you see), yet I wanted my 1000[sup]th[/sup] post to be perfect.
That got me thinking some more. Why do I want my 1000[sup]th[/sup] post to be perfect? Part of it is that I have an unfortunate tendency towards perfectionism to begin with, but is there anything more?
And you know, there is more. People have said it before, people will say it again, and nearly all of them will say it better than I can, but this is, after all, a pretty neat place. Not the only pretty neat place in the world, but a pretty neat place nevertheless. And while the SDMB has not been a dominant force in my life (perspective, right?), it’s certainly played some role in my learning and growth over the past few years.
Hence, I thought I’d take my 1000[sup]th[/sup] post to thank all of you out there for making those two years that much more interesting and informative. You’ve managed to keep me around for most of that time despite my embarrassingly bad attention span. You’ve managed, in fact, to keep me around to the extent that I’ve actually contributed in my own small way. I think that’s pretty impressive.
So I’ve reached 1000 posts. Go you!
