It's interesting how, when we were taught that having feelings of giving up and ending things it's ok, we as furries feel like the end of the world when someone has such thoughts.

The events that were piling up through this year made me realize the possibility that a furry art career, like everything else, has an end. Such as the need of looking up for a job that means a better income, personal motives that prevent them to do art, or even... death

As we see many, -many- newcomers entering the fandom day by day, we get further away from the idea that there are also people who are leaving the train. Even to a point, we see a hollow spot that used to be filled with someone we either just knew about or known from ever.

I don't ask for all of us to be ok when someone stops doing art on a platform to move to something else. But we don't have to attack said person begging to not leave or automatically say the words you hadn't said when you had the chance.

It's about being more aware of the finality of things, as everything in life, so we can appreciate the most all artists, users, and friends we have now in the present. And so, when it's time to go, accept said point and move on to the next thing.

"A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin

P.S. I'm NOT saying I'm gonna quit or anything. Just came to this realization