Oh, so I was wondering why nobody was commenting anymore, and then lo and behold I realized that I haven’t been writing much, and maybe that’s part of the problem.
So I’m sitting in a hotel room 200 miles from home. I’d love to tell you I’m taking a much needed breather from the wild hot sex my wife and I are having to celebrate being in a hotel room 200 miles from home, but no, I’m watching Zach and Cody with three kids and waiting for my wife to come back from an errand.
My niece graduated high school tonite, and it was amazing and wonderful and bittersweet all at once. She did awesome in school, lots of friends and awards and such. Pretty cool, if I do say so myself, and I’m extremely proud of her.
As for the bittersweet, it makes me realize I’m a bit older now. Okay, a lot older. Also, I’m not sure I’ve blabbed to the internets that I never participated in graduation from high school, and it was a bit anticlimactic after I almost flunked out my junior year and then went to a special program to finish and wound up finishing earlier than the rest of my class so that I could work and go to junior college. Oh well. Then there’s the whole “feeling like a failure ever since” thing.
On top of everything, it feels like a Saturday. Anybody else think that?
Ah! The elusive comment! I look at the stats my webhost provides then I compare them with http://www.google.com/analytics and then I look at my http://www.google.com/adsense report and I never know what to believe. So I return to the question “Am I doing this for me or them?” The Answer is really both but mostly for me. And if I had no readers, I would still blog.
I watch myself fly through my feed reader and often pause thinking of a comment but rarely do. And I know that if I, realising a comment doesn’t take much effort but provides so much to an author, fail to comment that there must be so many dozens of readers that would not ever consider commenting.
I suggest never associating a lack of comments with a lack of readership or a lack of interest. We are out here!
You have a lovely family, a good job, and a slew of admirers. There is no reason you should feel like a failure, because you’re nowhere close to being one.
Newscoma hears crickets. My post for comments got 2!