Today is the day that a lot of us in the community have seen coming for awhile. While its time was up, I don’t think the harbingers really need to spend any time claiming a victory lap. After all, it was a shell of its former self. 

While the ending was much more squeak than bang, that doesn’t discount what it was. And I think when you have a good thing in MS for awhile, it’s easy to trick yourself into thinking it’s going to stick around forever. Avoiding the napkin math exercise is hard.

I’ve seen too many of my friends in the community save for houses, pay tuition, and help loved ones to have too many jokes today, so I’ll spare you the rant. I’ve been critical of it, it wasn’t sustainable, but that doesn’t invalidate the very real effect it had on people’s lives. 

So instead of anger or sadness or schadenfreude, today I’m going to reminisce on a truly interesting time to be in the game. And maybe a feeling of happiness that nobody is on the phone all day in $200/$250 increments anymore.

Today is a good reminder that even the comically long running things eventually die in MS. Finding a new play is an adrenaline rush, but plan around it being a forever play at your own peril. 

As Kenny Rogers (TIL actually written by someone named Don Schlitz) famously said, there’ll be time for counting when the dealing’s done. 

Pictured: an interesting thought exercise from Google – but if you have to ask, you can’t afford it