Hi everyone.

Today’s post may be an interesting one for some. This is my last post at RA Project. I would like to announce, even though it is something that one tries to avoid, that I am leaving RA Project and moving away from it. This is a “moving away” action instead of the typical “moving on” action. Good by everyone.

From now on, you will be seeing Simonne and Ronalds’ name on this site only, until the future brings in someone else. This was a personal project for me, something that was part of my life, so it is not easy to let go in small bits. Among some other important things, RA Project is headed in a new direction now that will do better without me and vice versa. This is a very good way to explain a lot of things for me. I am hoping all of you will give Ronald and Simonne the same courtesy that you have all shown me either directly or indirectly.

Thank you Ronald and Simonne for helping run this site. Thank you Shawn for helping start this site before. The current team has been told of my decision in private also.

I will not be around this site to read comments here anymore, nor will I be around to answer any questions related to this project anymore through this site. Since this was a personal project and not a business project, it is better for me to simply stop a lot of things instead of letting strings attached to different things. If you need to contact me with anything, you can do it through channels outside of this site; my RA Project email will cease to exist within a few hours of this post.

I apologize to anyone who feels any kind of a bad surprise because of me leaving, and also to anyone who feels that they are not appreciated with this post and would have instead preferred a post that talks about appreciation: please be happy. To those of you that do not know me at all and are wondering “Who the heck is Bes? He/she is leaving? I didn’t even know he/she existed!“, rejoice! Now you can be completely sure that what you thought did not exist does not exist here anymore.

Please note that I would choose not participating in something, because I do not want to be biased, over posting and participating simply to keep others happy. That is something that comes with things that are personal and non-business and non-monetary. Appreciation and its concept will be around in different or modified forms whether or not I am around, so I hope you will not take my “bye-bye” as a sign of impending doom on this galaxy.

I am hoping you all will get used to the other posts here, since lately I have been away from time to time anyhow because of different things in life. If you do still miss me after a while, you can easily find me elsewhere online or even offline. As an appreciation project, you can consider this the perfect post in my view where I feel no obligation to anyone as to whether or not I should leave at this point, but I feel obligated to many of you to explain myself as much as possible, even if it is all vague in the eyes of many, of why I am or may be leaving, or as to what is happening.

I would like to thank everyone who interacted with the messages and with me and others at RA Project, including Jeff, Andy, Liz, Andrew, Snoskred Matt, Jayne, Stacee, Valerie, Pelf, Chris, and many others : that includes all the readers, commentors, and e-mailers.

Just like any relationship, it can be very hard for me to say good bye and not wonder later how I could have said some things better. “I could have explained this too”, “I should have mentioned her/him too”, “I should have thanked more”, “I should have thanked less and focused on specifics”, “I should have explained the actual reasons more”, “I should have left a bit later”, “I should have left sooner”, “I should have never left and should have simply hovered in the background decisions at least”, and many other thoughts are already starting to live in my mind, so I would like to stop here and let those life-thoughts and regrets become part of me from today onwards.

It was a very interesting ride for me, everyone. It is time for me to get back to my old car and continue the same journey through a different road. I am hoping you can help drive this RA Project car towards a direction where it can keep providing something mentally useful to everyone.

Keep on reading, keep on thinking, and keep on eating!

Regards, good luck, and good bye!

Bes

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