I didn't know that ducks were interested in people...
Sometimes they swim in the river, but they hardly every approach the bank and - somehow - don't seem very interested in humans. Whenever I try to take a photo of them, they swim away.
I think that such people (as well as those who haven't changed their profile photos for many years) don't actually look for anyone. They are either scammers or they simply joined the site for fun (talks, chat, forums). They don't have any intentions to meet anyone in person.
This reminded me of one funny thing that happened to me on another site a couple of years ago. I got a message from some Japanese man who had several photos in his profile (his own, him and his father, him and his friends, on holiday, etc). However, I found him very familiar. Since I like to watch Japanese dramas (series), I searched for the last series I had seen and found the name of the actor whose photos he was using. He stole not only the actor's personal, but also family photos. When I told him that and asked him why he did that he replied: "Why does it matter? I look just the same as him!".
The last cat I had wasn't a cat at all, but a small panther. I still have scars she left me with her nails and teeth when she was angry. She used to grab my clothes with one nail. If I had tried to move she would have hissed on me. If I had tried to remove her paw she would have scratched and bit me. So I sat there like some caught mouse, while she licked the other paw and pretended I wasn't there. And waited patiently until she left me go.
I often wondered why I kept that monster in my house for 14 years.
This is more than a dating site for them. It's a sort of a local virtual cafe where they drop by every day, know the bartender and all the guests, have some chat with this one or that one, have some laugh, hear the newest gossip and - move on to continue with their day. Some people stay on forums for many years. A few months ago I returned to some old forum I was a member of many years ago and there were some people who proudly said that they had been members for 15+ years. In the meantime, a lot of things happened in their lives - they moved to other places, changed jobs, got married, had children, got divorced, were in several relationships, but - the forum was always there for them. They will be there until the forum gets closed down (if ever!). I think it's the similar situation with many members of CS, too.
After many years of watching news and listening to political discussions almost every day - the "political" part of me simply - died. So, I stopped watching and reading news completely. Every now and then some information flies to my direction, but I don't pay much attention. Giving up on politics didn't change my life a bit (I didn't lose anything at all). My opinion and feelings were never important anyway.
Whenever we choose anything, it's the best choice we could make at the particular moment. At that time - we couldn't choose differently with all the information, knowledge and previous experiences we had had. However, as the time passes, our perspective on things change. We gain more knowledge and information, we get new experiences as a result of our certain choice and we think: "I made a mistake" or "I made a good choice". Then the time passes even more and our perspective changes again, so now the mistake appears to have been a good choice after all and a good choice starts to seem like a mistake. And so on and on through life - we gain more knowledge, we get new experiences and our perspective changes many many times.
We always think that we could choose better, yet it's easy to be the general after the battle. We always chose the best we could at that particular time. We couldn't do any better. This goes for all other people as well. No need to criticize both ourselves or others. Of course, this is an ideal - we will continue to do so, because it's simply a part of the human's nature.
I've already left this site many times for different reasons, but mostly because I simply spent too much time here (forums are highly addictive) and/or got bored. If I met someone I liked, even if it was still just virtual, but meaningful, I would delete my profile.
This is the only international forum with a variety of threads where members are mostly over 40 years old. In general, forums, Facebook groups, etc. are more or less empty and deserted, specialized or full of teenagers and people in their 20's. Finding an international place to chat with mature people worldwide (and not on one-to-one basis) is extremely difficult. So, yes, boredom and entertainment.
Constantly checking out whether a boogeyman or a ghost or some other supernatural creature hides somewhere and might jump in front of me at any moment.
RE: My Kitten