User blog comment:TheSlicer/Departure/@comment-1221909-20110704062841

Well here we are. The day has come for us to part ways and say farewell. I feel so sad now, and you already know I will miss you, but nonetheless, I need to express my point more validly. Wether you will care and feel the words I say or just disregard them as the words of another sub-friend down the line in your life, whose name you will have probably forgotten by next year, is not the point. The point is that even if you do care or not about what I am writing, I still want this to be heard. For everything you’ve done, everything you’ve built, for every step you have taken in your time here on the Custom BIONICLE Wiki, has always been for its benefit. You have been the fatherly hand that has been outstretched to the wiki when its been unbalanced and shaky and nearing a fall, and you have been the one who has lead in us into new, golden eras, and brought through changes that have channelled the wiki’s resources to make it that much better. For that, your deeds will always be appreciated, and you may not realize this, but your absence will be most deeply felt.

Its at the end here, that I feel I should have been a better friend to you. Oh, we’ve had some times, you and me, made decisions together that have shaped the wiki, or maybe it was more you than me, but now I feel I was just a backseat driver, and left you to face all the hard choices and work. For that I am sorry. I was so willing to help you out with your fantastic storyline, which you yourself concocted brilliantly with creativity and imagination the wiki has never seen before. Or will never see since. I should have been a better friend, helped you more with you choices, and stood more firmly by your side in the face of the wiki. But now, I suppose I will have to take on those responsibilities myself now, sided with the equally talented Jareroden97. We can only hope that we can lead the wiki in the time where you are now unable to do so. You have big shoes to fill, and an even bigger legacy to leave behind you now, so we can only hope we can lead this wonderful site as well as you did.

But the time has come. I understand the reasons behind your decision, and understand them just as much. It is unhealthy to let a place like this interfere with your place in the real world. Spending your time glued to a computer screen when life’s opportunities pass you by is not how a short lifetime in the world should be spent. I now feel like such a sad case now.

But under the knowledge the end was coming, I have been trying so hard to enjoy the lessening amount of time I've been able to have with you. However, the revelation is that the day is coming for all of us. There will be a time where all of us must go, and all our accounts will stay here to collect dust.

You will be missed my friend, and perhaps not to the extent you know. You are undeniably the wiki's most infamous, hard-working, and committed member. So many times in the past, I have felt my efforts to the wiki have been pale and hollow compared to the direction you've taken it in. You've kept it alive. You are an aspect of the very core and fundamentals that build up the heart of this wiki, so when the day comes that you leave us, a part of CBW dies as well. A day of sadness it is now that you are gone, and so sad are many users will be when they look at your userpage and know that there is no life in it anymore. You have breathed life into the wiki when it was nearing death. You saved it from collapse and almost single-handely brought it out of an actual decline and masterminded the introduction and welcoming of new members to expand and preserve this site. You have unified it in times of terrible anarchy, given its articles and documents uniform and direction, cleaned it out of spam and more, and that is something not even I can manage. For so long, you have been our guide and friend in times when the wiki could tear itself apart in conflict. I could compare you to Mata Nui himself, not for his occasionally exaggerated levels of great power, but for his purpose. For most of your time as an Administrator and a B'crat, you controlled every aspect of the universe and aspect of our domain, from maintaining the gravity of every situation, to ensuring the wiki stays brilliant and alive. You made sure that all the elements of CBW were stable. So many projects that you have done have benefitted the wiki, and for that I give you my most sincerest salute. In fact, I'll even tip my fez to you. I really do. You have been one of my most dearest and oldest friends on this wiki, and I don't know where I'd be without you. In fact I can, I'd be an antisocial hermit on this wiki and definitely not an administrator, let alone a bureaucrat. I have so much to owe you. You have been so inspirational to me, and I have so much respect for you that it wouldn't even fit on a graph. But I bid you luck in the real world, because that's where it counts. I hope you become someone great, and I have little to no doubt that you will become an actual writer. Your skill, grace, and fluidness with writing is unbelievable, and you are perhaps the greatest writer in our history. I bid you luck on your zombie novel, and I'll wait for it to come on FanFiction or some similar site, though know this. When in doubt, know that even in times where you feel alone and pressured, know that there are a couple hundreds of dusty, old users, who you don't truly know and will have probably forgotten about, bidding you their luck for your entire life, and even though we may not be there in your struggles, know that we will have said that we will always be there to support you. You have big shoes to fill for the other B'crats, and a massive legacy that makes everyone else's look puny. But always know, that in one form or another, there will always be something worth living for. Things greater than BIONICLE, this wiki, and a loveable bunch of eccentric users who you don't properly know. And when you go, one story ends for you. And a new one begins. A new chapter, a new stage where you can prosper and advance beyond our limits. And I shall say, goodbye, Sir. It has been a great honour and privilege knowing you. In honour of the greatest Slicer of them all. And in the words of Mata Nui: "All journey's must come to an end, but this time, there is a new beginning as well. There will be challenges to face and enemies to fight, but I know you will overcome ... Let unity, duty and destiny be your guides ... Farewell."

And I seem to have lost track of this speech, I'm not sure where it is going, but I know where it started and I know its meaning and purpose, and that's what I want you to remember. I may continue to babble and ramble on about how the wiki will miss you and so on, but I won't. Your life is your own, always has been, always will be, and you should live it to the very full, to the point where I want you to explode with joy and happiness and wish the moment will never leave. I also bid you luck on the novel you are writing on so hardly. I only hope to one day find it somewhere either on the internet or a bookshop, where I can read it and follow your other works as you move on in your life. Now, I doubt you’ll care much about those words above, and probably not reply either, knowing how busy you are, but I hope they at least have some form of meaning to you. To be honest, without you, we wouldn't be where we are today. You have done so much for you, and it is only fair that we honour you in your final farewell. You have warned us in advance about this day, and we all have been preparing for your transistion from BIONICLE to a new, unknown stage in your real life. I only hope you don’t have nay regrets on this wiki, and live and prosper in the knowledge that we’ll never forget you. You are gone but not forgotten. In the honour of your memory, Sir, I say one last thing to you: Live well, live long, and live happily. I now salute you, my friend, and say my final worlds: Farewell my friend, I will terribly miss you, Chicken Bond