It's always overwhelming to get the pats on the back that come when you hit a milestone. For the most part My exposure to KTC is just me finding a quiet place in my house with my IPAD. It's amazing to touch the lives of people across the country from that position. Hate to get too long winded but recently I've been bummed out with people who post roll and nothing else. But the truth is my first 250 days here we're spent doing just that. At one point my average posts per day was down to 1.1 (with pretty much 100% roll). October 2013 had lost dozens of quitters and probably would have lost me at some point as well until I was reading intros to get some motivation when I saw a poster named Thumblewort responding with amazing regularity to most intros. At the time I think he had less than 20 days of quit and here he was helping out whoever he could. Up until then I thought I had very little to offer, especially when quitters were getting schooled by Nolaq, and Diesel, and Bean, and countless other quitters who had so much more quit under their belts than me. Anyway I made the conscious decision to start posting help on other peoples intros to give back in any way I could because this site truly changed my life.
Very soon after Derk started posting support for me on the Oct '13 quit page, followed by Worktowin who did the same. I had never spoke to either or posted on their intro pages but to have two big time vets giving me support after I had spent months in anonymity was hugely motivating. Soon after Done4 posted on my intro page a thank you for helping newer quitters, something he has done more than once and it always leaves me speechless, because if you remember I am sitting by myself with an IPad and here's a guy I have never met giving me props from several states away. Soon after I got message from RDad thanking me for helping people along the way. These are the types of small efforts that have encouraged me from being a plus one only guy to a guy who cares deeply about the quits of others.
If I have any regrets it's for being so silent in my early quit days, while super star quitters like Pinched and JLud, we're basically carrying the weight for my quit group. Sorry to take up so much space I just wanted to thank the quitters who have motivated me, and to hopefully send the message that you don't have to have 1,000 posts in your first month to be a voice that matters here. I quit 500 days ago with all you angry humps, and I quit with you again today.
