How do we expect the general public to accept vaping when so many vapers are ignorant of what we do? The New Members Forum here scares me for our future.
The New Members Forum encourages me for our future. I spent my first two months as an ECFer there, and hardly any place else. Although a newbie myself, I enjoyed helping here and there whenever I could. But what kept me coming back over and over was the amazement at how fast the vaping community must be growing.
I saw many brand new members coming through every week, sometimes so many I couldn't even keep count. Considering that many of the world's new vapers don't even come here, for each new account I saw I realized that there must be many others in the world who started vaping around the very time that new ECF member did.
This place gets so many new members per day that sometimes it seems like vaping is taking over the planet. Yes, I know I'm exaggerating to myself, but it does make me excited. The vast majority of new vapers seem to be ex-smokers or soon-to-be ex-smokers. Doing all that math to see how many lives are going to be saved, or at least improved, would make my head spin. But it also makes me hopeful to the point of being giddy.
No matter how lost in the "vaping forest" a new member may be,
they're here now. They've asked for help in our forums, and in that first page of answers by experienced ECFers I very often see the new member's understanding improve. We get the chance to help them not be lost anymore. From what I've seen, usually it works. And yes, sometimes it doesn't. There will always be some people who will stay lost no matter how often we point out the way. That's just humanity. But even though I've only been here three months so far, I see most new ECF members actually gain knowledge. They will most likely go on to become expert vapers. And a portion of them will, in turn, help others new to vaping in the New Members Forum.
Something that comes along every now and then in human history and saves millions of lives is a HUGELY IMPORTANT event. I'd call it a miracle, in fact.
Vaping is a miracle. And for every new ECF member that comes along, no matter how knowledgeable or how lost, I feel a deep appreciation. One that overrides any frustration I may feel about any recurring lack of knowledge in one category or another.
The New Members Forum only makes me feel excited about our future. So new and old alike, VAPE ON!
