In particular, I just started thinking about all of my fellow blogging peers that have fallen by the wayside over the years, and in retrospect, it was a fairly long list of people. And it made me sort of depressed to think about all those voices which are now silenced or for all I know, they are merely blogging under a different moniker about a totally different topic these days. After all, I am certainly familiar with doing that myself.
But sometimes you never realize how many people you miss talking to on a semi-regular basis until it is too late. I've lost touch with some many great people over the years, and I sort of wish I knew what they were up to now. Granted, in most cases, I only knew the little bit of themselves that they let show online, but still, they were almost always captivating personalities. I am not going to name names or blogs however... because then I would be listing all day.
And I think that is why I got so upset about all those old comments from my first six months at Culture Kills disappearing... because a lot of the people who left them no longer blog, so when I would repost some of my old entries, I could read their comments and think back to how things used to be here. It was usually an entertaining trip down memory lane. But I have to accept that those comments are likely gone forever.
On some level, it has made me question my own blogging longevity. I mean, how have I managed to blog for so long while other more talented and prolific people didn't make it? Because deep down, I think most of what I write these days is sort of terrible (and that isn't a ploy to get some sympathy comments). Somewhere along the line, I feel like I lost some of my original spark.
I wonder if I will ever feel the same exhilaration I did when I started this blog at some point.
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