The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley

I was actually saving this idea, this entry for Beshameless’ second birthday. However, something has come up that makes me want to share it with you all now.

As I said, I was saving this for the 2nd anniversary of my very first entry. I wanted to do something special for it, and not let it slip by unnoticed like last year. So I sat down and thought it out. What would make it special? Calling people out for things I don’t agree with? I do that all the time. The occasional post of good news wouldn’t do either, because our world still isn’t seeing very much of it. I decided it deserved some real thought. Why did we start Beshameless? We fooled ourselves into thinking that we would be cutting edge, talk about things that often went unnoticed, or to shed new light on the same old story. In some aspects we were and are; but, to me it was for another reason entirely. I didn’t realize it at the time… I see why now.

BeShameless started in March of 2006, when the three original writers were facing crossroads in their life. Sure we had talked about it for awhile, played around with the idea often. Yet, we never actually got it started until we all came to the cross road. I think that we actually started this site to remain close to each other.

The three of us were facing the possibility of splitting up. Shameless was going back to where he had been living, and Ethan was offered a promotion that would require him to move. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I knew without a doubt that I would miss them both more than I could imagine. So the site began, we spent alot of time together talking it out and bringing it to light. Even now, I remember the day that it came online. Ethan was having some technical trouble and was talking with the site host or something to that effect. Shameless and I sitting on Ethan’s couch talking about the 1st entry. When the tech consultation was over we spend the rest of the night coming up with grand ideas, and constantly hitting refresh to see if we were online yet.

Beshameless became our own sort of family. It has inside jokes (usually about some people not updating ::coughshamelesscough:: ), it has its own set of self imposed guidelines, and hopefully one day it will have its own traditions. After all, we have already grown to include one more to the family. Crimson went from reader, to occasional commenter, to full time writer. She’s become one of us… And, even she posts more than Shameless.

I’ve always had a hard time adequately expressing the way I feel. Even with my constant foot in mouth symptoms, I hope that my fellow writers know how I feel. They are my family, in this little corner and in the real world. I respect, admire, and most of all love them with all my heart. These two years have been beyond amazing, and I can’t imagine life without them.

That being said, the reason I bumped this up instead of saving it, is because once again we are separating. Ethan, darling, I can’t say enough how much you mean to me. Yes I know you are only a few hours away… but I’ll miss having you close by. More importantly, I hope that this move will fulfill you (that way I don’t have to help you pack again, hehe) and that you find everything that you are hoping for.

Oh and to the readers out there, Ethan isn’t leaving the site. I wouldn’t allow it. If it came to that I would chain him in my basement. He would be allowed a laptop with windows vista (bwahaha) and the only website he could visit would be this one. So have no worries, our geek god isn’t leaving here.

Until next time, I’ll think fondly of you all,
autumn

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