I'm a gear head. I mod things, build custom van/truck/hauler interiors, I'm a self-taught, top-flite welder, and we even build custom race/show trailers behind them, all from scratch, as part of a small team of maybe on average a dozen different guys. We are at the top of our game. I spend time in endless forums, trading for pieces, trading blueprints, gasses, exotic materials like titanium or super-pure aluminum and steel, forums after endless forums, and NOTHING, NOWHERE offers the same level of just tight, pure focus like what GreatAwakening does. Everywhere else you have to wade through an endless onslaught of non-stop pretenders, tards, and downright assholes. Every time I press my "GW" bookmark on my tab I expect it to 404, as if this experience was too good to be true. When the page unfolds in my browser, my anxiety dissipates, I exhale, and I can feel my heartrate lower to a sort of zen-like calm, knowing that for however many minutes of catching up on what's happening, I'm going to be reading only the purest, most unadulterated air that exists on the entire internet.

To say that GAW is a special experience for me is an understatement. Everywhere else on the internet smells like diapers and day-old beer. I wish the entire rest of the internet was as angrily and obsessively modded the way this place is. The world would be a better place. I know I can't be the only one that feels this way, because I can tell from the comments that everyone else is so totally "bought in" to what we're sort of doing around here. This is amazing.

Every single day, I feel grateful that this place exists. Thank you mods, for what you do.