T*A*M*I

August 20, 2013

Thank you or Why I love OD

The outpouring of love and support from open diary community just overnight, has been amazing. I can’t even believe how many of you have left me genuine heartfelt notes, and I truly believe that I am in your prayers, hearts and minds last night and throughout the day. The amount of support I feel here is why I will never be leaving open diary.

I will not be jumping ship.

I will not be making a prose box or whatever it is.

I refuse to feed into the conspiracy theories.

Until the codes are lost to the ages I will be here.

Even if the site is running slowly, I will be here.

Even if I have to double save all my entries, I will be here.

Even if I am the last active diarist on here I will still be here.

If OD ever leaves, I may stop writing publicly, how can anything compare to this site I have come to call home?

There is almost nothing about this place I don’t love, except that people seem to think this place is doomed and are leaving.

I have seen over the years in my own life the power and love of this community.

You helped me raise money for Sabastian’s surgery, you stood by me through a deployment, 3 rough pregnancies, 3 losses, my mom getting sick over and over again. You shared in the joy of weddings and births. Good grades, and hard days.

I have shared with many of you the birth of one, two, or three children, poor periods, and joys of vacations. I have shared sickness, and happiness.

When it comes down to it we are a family. A family unlike that of other popular websites. I could have shared what happened last night on there, but would have gotten short responses, and a lot of what’s wrong, and shallow replies that lead to gossip. Yet, not here. Here is my refuge, my safe place to be me when, the me I am today is not popular or cute.

I love open diary, I love the people behind the diaries, I have met some of you, but not nearly enough of you. I feel like you are my real friends, because you have shared your lives me with.

So, as I go forward with this new part of my life, I can go forward with confidence that I am loved here, that this is a safe place. That the prayers are real, and the people genuine, with wonderful spirits. We live in such an awesome time that has made this format possible.

Today, I say thank you.

Thank you OD for always being here.

Thank you everyone for your love and support. I love you all, and am looking forward to many more years here with all of you.

MandyMom

August 21, 2013

I feel the same way about OD. I didn’t create a prose account either. I will go down with this ship if and when that happens.

Saved_by_Grace

I don’t think I could ever leave either. Even if I have a hard time finding the time to write, I still read. XOXOX

Amber

commonsensechristian

*HUGS*…and we all love you, too.

*hugs*

Girl, Interrupted

I feel the same way. I’ve been here since 2000. 13 years…How could I ever leave? I don’t believe the theories about OD going under. I think it’ll be up and running far longer than most believe. I will be here until its dying day and most likely won’t pick up elsewhere either. It would never be the same!

I so agree but I have signed up with my name at the other site just in case this ends. But I hang out and write here.

pinkpunkcosmo

Amen! I will go down with this ship!

Desert Diva

I have been on OD since almost the start. 1999/2000 is when I signed up here back when it was just Free OD. I do love it, but I have back up accounts all over the internet including Prosebox. I don’t want to lose all of my years of entries and backup my diary often.

Skikkles911

Random noter: I feel the same about OD, I’ve been on this site since like 2001 or something, they’ll have to completely shut down this site for me to jump ship! Long Live the OD! ~~~>

A thousand times agreed! Leaving here would feel like abandoning my hometown & the gorgeous community that’s here. You can write anywhere, but nowhere will be OD.

Me, Myself, & I

Love this entry! I’ve been here since approximately the beginning of time (November of 2000) and when I think of all the times I’ve come here and poured all my worries and tears and pain into an entry… and come back a few hours to find the most heartfelt and genuine support and love from a group of people I’ve never even met. Well. It’s the magic of this place I guess.

🙂 That is how I feel as well. This has been my home since early 2001. I don’t plan to create a prosebox account either. I do double post to my CaringBridge page (especially the medically themed posts) because that’s where my family reads updates.. but there is no community like the one here at OD. 🙂

Pearl

This entry is so deserving to be a reader’s choice!! Congrats on that and your entry speaks for so many of us on OD. OD readers do become family. And sometimes, actually many times, OD friends are closer than family. We “put it all out there” here on OD and people love us, support us, pray for us, and are there for us, even distantly, but we know they are there and we feel their love, support andprayers. Good for you for writing this so eloquently. God Bless you.

JaeBella

This is why I love OD, too. I’m not going anywhere, either. I love you, too!

cairo

August 22, 2013

This entry warms my heart. Thank you so much!! Staying here till the last glow of the codes fade away Hugs!

analizzato

I totally agree! i wrote a less-beautiful entry about this topic a few months back, so grateful for my readers, few though they are, and strangers who listen. Amen sister!

deviously_devine

August 23, 2013