The one that stings the most:
>70. It is impossible to love again anything you have truly ceased to love.[14] Editors who return after retirement, or after a wearied or bitter departure, may edit again, but never with the same passion they once brought to the project. Each successive return will be with diminished dedication and shorter duration.
Wow. It actually hurts to read this, because it perfectly explains why I’ve left most social media and forums I’ve been a part of, and failed to ever return for more than a month or two at a time.
My love of the internet has largely faded, and is relegated to being a tool and a way to waste time when bored. It’s not exciting. I can’t reattach to it.
>Many people leaving the project blame either the project or the people working on it for their departure, rather than recognize that it is normal in life for one's enthusiasm to wane. It does with all things that we once found exciting.
Indeed, but also, ouch.