Just Want To Wish You All The Best!

[Phynx]

I went surfing on a huge wave of nostalgia, listening to all of SGX's music on bandcamp and it reminded me of this community.

I sit here, white-knuckling my nostalgia as I am flooded with wave after wave of emotional memories that I rarely ever get to experience. I just want to wish you all, everyone that I knew, and all of y'all that I don't know, the very best. I love you guys and hope everyone is having as best a year as you can possibly make it!

What I wouldn't give to be able to reset the clock and go back in time to my early teenage years. To rediscover FFR. To grind the ranks again. To see 0-framers again and be able to access the hidden menu of songs with a code. To watch the legends of that bygone era be years ahead of everyone else and look to them for overwhelming motivation to get better.

...To be able to do it all again, but right this time, without all the ego and pretentious behavior...

One thing I can express is I often look back on how I was when I was younger, the way I treated everyone and how I perceived my reception from others. It took a great deal of self-reflection and soul-healing to find humility and to experience what being truly humble is like. What a wonderful feeling and how it changed my personality for the better feels like a real blessing from God. I want to express my gratitude for FFR being a home for me when I was a troubled youth. You guys gave me a community that even to this day, I have not been able to find a suitable replacement for in my heart.

I would love to hear from everyone and to know more of your lives. How things have been for you over the years, how you've grown, what you've experienced, where you are now. I want to try and be a more active member, maybe not to play FFR so much, but to be a community member people can interact with again, to be a friend again, and to attempt to experience the sense of community, if for only but a tiny fraction of what it used to be.

Again, I want to wish you all the absolute best, and quoting the catchphrase of my late brother....

Keep It Real!