Quite frankly, I'm not even sure how to start this out. It seems like lately everything has become so...different. For one, I'll just come right out and admit that my time on AFF has shortened to...I don't even know that anymore, all I know is that it's become less and less of an activity for me to write anymore. Most of my content on here is outdated for the mere fact that my writing style has changed drastically and I've grown up.

Change is inevitable, and sadly I've been trying to run from it since I was a young teenager. But that's just it, I'm not a teenager anymore. I'm twenty one [God kill me, I feel old], and in the grand scheme of things I have seen and lived [and gotten very drunk, but that's a story for another day], and now all of this just feels...old. Now I'm not saying that I don't have a love for everything I've written, or everything I've been through being on this website, the friends I've made- God the friends I've made, just wanna send a mini shout out to you all cause..., I love you. You guys have been here for me through thick and thin, and I'm so grateful. 

But in regards to the topic at hand, I do believe that this is the beginning of the end for Kyla162. Me on the other hand, I've debated on leaving entirely, but I feel like that would be abandoning something I love more than anything. I want to write again, I have so many ideas that I would love to work on but this is a hobby to me. It's become a sort of job, and lord knows I already hate the job I have. [Again, another story for another day, 's been crazy guys]

In hindsight, I should have seen this coming, seeing as I really haven't written any proper stories in nearly three years here on AFF and now it's reached a point where even my stint on RPR may be reaching it's end too. *sigh* 

I have thoroughly enjoyed these past four, almost five years on this account, but it's time for a fresh start. I need to move forward as a writer into a better more comparable environment, and in order to do that I will be leaving this account as a writer. I'm not going to delete it, despite my disdain for all the cringe I've written over the span of time I've been here, I could never bring myself to part with them and delete them forever. But I will not be writing anymore on this account. 

The current stories I have open, I'm sad to say, will never be finished. My muse and/or motivation to write them has dwindled away and I find myself dreading any attempt to work on them. I'm not going to leave this account forever either, I'll pop in and check on it from time to time, but I think it's time to close the chapter on a part of my life that is now over. 

There's a sense of relief and melancholy sadness as I type this, knowing that I've changed so much as a person and looking back on who I was...I cherish the memories, but I certainly do not want to go back to who I was. That being said, I'll include a link to my new profile for anyone who would like to follow me, but for those who chose to move on to bigger and better things as I am, I want to take a moment to thank you for the years of support, reading, subscribing to God-awful stories that shouldn't have been written, encouraging me to continue when I felt I could no longer go on, being an audience where I could express my weird ways and share the erted and twisted that goes on in my head....all of it. Words can never express how truly grateful I am for you and your wonderful friendships.

To my friends whom I love so dearly, thank you for being you. You got me through many rainy days in my emotional distress, and on top of it you put me in my place when I needed reality checks. I'll forever be grateful for everything you've done, and I hope that we have many more years to come. 

And finally, a small note to my former self. Thank you for the memories- the laughs, the tears, the happiness, the cringy and borderline terrible wording in half my stories...you molded me into the person I am today, and I hope that with the knowledge I posses that I can move forward into the future as a new woman. Thank you, for everything.

I hadn't intended for this to be such a long note, nor had I intended for it to go in this direction, but the more I wrote the more I felt it was appropriate to do so. In closing, I hope you all have a wonderful life, because each and every one of you is deserving of it. Don't let anyone tell you not to be yourself, or to sensor who you are as a person or writer, because you're amazing. 

I wish you all the best.

-Kyla <3 [this is the last time I will EVER use that signature. End of story.]

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