A while back I turned off comments because I couldn't bear checking for them anymore. A zero comment day is the worst! But I keep writing because I love it and I really do believe it serves a greater purpose in my life. On a bad day, I can go back and read about a good day or an insight that I had that made me feel better at the time, and I can feel that way again. In that way, this blog is a journal in the very best sense - doing what I think journals should do. But I also kept it open to the public because my trusty site meter showed that people were actually still stopping by to see what I wrote. That made me feel a bit better about putting my thoughts out there, but there are days that I would still really like to know what people think. To hear that they understand me or disagree with my assessment or whatever.
With comments "off" I've been able to tell myself that people would comment if they could. A bit twisted, but it keeps me going. I will never stop writing, but as I feel more and more invisible in my super-sized church congregation, the more I turn to online interactions, and the more I wish I had comments to look for. I have found some wonderfully uplifting and enlightening blog communities that stretch me and make me laugh or teach me the need for being more resilient, but I find that I still want comments on what I write, no matter how much I tell myself I don't.
So please, if you're reading this...feel free to do me a solid and leave a comment. On any recent post. Or just say "hi". If I don't know you, I'd like to. You could even comment over at my family blog if you do know me. It will help me get through this rough social time of trying to adjust and build real world relationships in addition to cyber world ones. Not that one is better than the other, but I think it's not a bad idea to have a healthy amount of both.
And if I don't get any, I'll just go back to leaving them off, and I'll find a way to be okay with that. I'll still write, this isn't a threat. But please? Show some love?
I'm not a narcissist, really.
I am grateful for comments! Come on people!
6 comments:
Hi. Still here, still reading. :)
Well now I don't remember any of the awesome comments I had been planning on making if you had comments on. Weston really liked the picture of the monkels (at least that's he calls them)
I don't get the "feel free to do me a solid"
I forgot my comments too.... I had a few good ones and should have just emailed you directly. But I am glad that you turned the comments back on. I like to read your thoughts. I feel a bit inferior but nothing negative. I just wish I had YOUR brains!
really? It's a term out of the late 80's/early 90's. "Do me a favor" Can't you just see some kid in a member's only jacket saying it to his best bud - like he is SO hip? Yeah, that's how I feel now - LAME! (It was also used in "Juno" so now I guess it's become sorta dumb to say) Oh well.
okay...so you don't know me, but i came to your blog from segullah. something you said there intrigued me, so i am over here to read more about you. hopefully that doesn't sound too creepy. not sure you're even going to read this, since you posted this so long ago, but hopefully... just wanted you to know people are reading it and finding it interesting!! thanks for your interesting thoughts!!
oh, and tell me the secret to happiness and how to be true to yourself... definitely something that should be shared and not kept a secret!!
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