I tend to wander away from this forum (and others I've previously been a member of) for long stretches, not because I don't care about other peoples' suffering, but because dealing with the subject matter that this place is oriented towards is so terribly exhausting. It kind of saps my strength looking at how so many others are suffering and knowing that there's nothing I can do about any of it. And confronting this kind of subject matter and contributing to the conversations typically requires me to take a good long look at the awfulness of my own hopeless situation, which I guess the rest of the time I'm able to push a little ways into the back of my mind where it's not quite so disturbing.
On days when I delve in to this stuff I tend to accomplish even less then I do on other days and I get the impression it makes me even more of a drag to be around.
And as for "talking about how good life is", well I think that that's merely a case of people being mindful of how rough the other forum users are having it and making an effort not to try and darken their days any further by talking about the bad stuff on here. We censor ourselves a fair bit on here, because painting a meticulously graphic picture of how awful life is for people who are (for the most part) already well aware of this fact really won't do any good.
So yeah, maybe it's not so much a case of people not caring as it is a case of them just being too exhausted. I dunno, maybe that all amounts to the same thing anyway.
