If there was no Mudcat, the world would carry on as merrily as if there is one or if there was no other forum. We may enjoy what these places offer but when you start thinking what would you do without them you have a bad addiction.

In other words, yes they can be great and offer new things, good friends have been made, etc. but when you start depending on their existance, you have a problem.

Really it is about the same as we are as people. We may be missed by others, liked, loved, hated, whatever but.

THE INDISPENSIBLE MAN

Some time when you're feeling important,
Some time when your ego's in bloom,
Some time when you take it for granted
You're the best man in the room;

Some time when you feel that your going
would leave an unfilled hole,
Just follow this simple instruction
And see how it humbles your soul.

Take a bucket and fill it with water
Put your hands in it up to your wrist;
Pull them out and the hole that remains
Is a measure of how you'll be missed.

You may splash as you please when you enter;
You may stir up the water galore
But stop and you'll find in a minute,
That it looks just the same as before.

The moral of this is quite simple
Do just the best you can,
Be proud of yourself, but remember;
There is no indispensable man.