Hey folks.
I haven't posted here in a while, and there is a reason for that. Let me tell you my story.
I joined this forum in March 2011. At that time, I had just dropped out of university, was unemployed and living off my parents. I was suffering from severe depression, I took meds daily, went to therapy once a week. That was it. I was living with my girlfriend in a small apartment in the inner city of Berlin. Our relationship was also suffering badly from my illness, which in turn made me even sadder.
Then I found this community, all the nice things you can do with and to those great knives, making sheaths, handle wraps, custom scales, complete makeovers... you name it. A lot to do. It became my obsession, which would have been bad for everyone else, but for me it was freeing, it was liberating me from my depression. I started going out more, to the shop and to the woods, I spent countless hours with those knives. I stayed up whole nights chatting with pople on the Beckerchat or stitching leather pieces to each other.
My girlfriend dumped me in June. By that time I had gotten a lot better, if I hadn't, this would have destroyed me. But I managed to pull through, put in a week long trip to poland where I lived in a teepee camp with a french survival instructor, made some more sheaths, and started an apprenticeship in the metal industry in September.
Since then I haven't looked back. I'm okay now, and I know this mostly thanks to you people. If you hadn't been here I would have probably broken down and just killed myself.
So there you have it, every knife I own is a survival knife to me. And if someone ever asks you "So how bout dem survival knives? Has one of these things ever actually saved someone's life?" - well, now you know at least one.
Thank you all, for everything. Moose, Bladite, DerekH, MWTIC/NixLeather, Guyon, Tdubz, Murphnuge, Oregon FAL'er, Mr. Ethan Becker, and everyone else who makes this place what it is.
I haven't posted here in a while, and there is a reason for that. Let me tell you my story.
I joined this forum in March 2011. At that time, I had just dropped out of university, was unemployed and living off my parents. I was suffering from severe depression, I took meds daily, went to therapy once a week. That was it. I was living with my girlfriend in a small apartment in the inner city of Berlin. Our relationship was also suffering badly from my illness, which in turn made me even sadder.
Then I found this community, all the nice things you can do with and to those great knives, making sheaths, handle wraps, custom scales, complete makeovers... you name it. A lot to do. It became my obsession, which would have been bad for everyone else, but for me it was freeing, it was liberating me from my depression. I started going out more, to the shop and to the woods, I spent countless hours with those knives. I stayed up whole nights chatting with pople on the Beckerchat or stitching leather pieces to each other.
My girlfriend dumped me in June. By that time I had gotten a lot better, if I hadn't, this would have destroyed me. But I managed to pull through, put in a week long trip to poland where I lived in a teepee camp with a french survival instructor, made some more sheaths, and started an apprenticeship in the metal industry in September.
Since then I haven't looked back. I'm okay now, and I know this mostly thanks to you people. If you hadn't been here I would have probably broken down and just killed myself.
So there you have it, every knife I own is a survival knife to me. And if someone ever asks you "So how bout dem survival knives? Has one of these things ever actually saved someone's life?" - well, now you know at least one.
Thank you all, for everything. Moose, Bladite, DerekH, MWTIC/NixLeather, Guyon, Tdubz, Murphnuge, Oregon FAL'er, Mr. Ethan Becker, and everyone else who makes this place what it is.
I too come to the forum when I need a distraction. Especially here in the BK&T forum where you can often find something funny to read. I was in a similar situation to yours back in 08' and then I found an interest in knives and survival which helped me to focus my mind and allowed me to get into a hobby I really enjoyed. Then in 2011 when I found BF it opened up a world I would've never found otherwise. The amount of knowledge I gained since coming here has made my love of knives and even 'survival' so much greater. Unlike many members here I am not also a member on a bunch of other knife forums. There's something about the people here, their kindness, their generosity, and the way that, instead of judging or ridiculing those new to the hobby and those who don't know as much as they do, they go above and beyond to inform and assist any way they can(for the most part anyway
) The people here are what make this forum so great and I wouldn't doubt that there's others out there who had their life improved by bladeforums.
