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Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated

I had a friend IM me the other day to ask “have you stopped blogging?” The answer is: not really.

Between fallout from my uncle’s death at the end of the year and my own troubling but not serious health-related issues at the end of January, writing, hell, thinking, hasn’t really been a priority in the past couple of months.

I’m starting to feel the need to get back to it though, but I’m also wondering if there’s any point, if my voice isn’t just more noise in a world that is already overloaded with superfluous crap.

It also makes me wonder why I write here, exactly. This blog started, as I’m sure many a blog did, as a platform for venting the ridiculousness of my job but, gradually, people (you know who you are!) have started reading me and leaving comments. So the question becomes, do I write for me, or do I write for you guys?

Something for me to think about as the weather starts to warm here and I start to wake up from too many months’ slumber.

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  1. I was beginning to miss you too. As whether you write for us or yourself, I think that one should write for themselves but at the same time be willing to share their ideas, opinions, and thoughts with others. These persons either can’t formulate them as well as you can or that are too lost to understand what they need to express. You lend us your voice to that we can all share these ideas with the rest of the world. So maybe ultimately you/we can inspire a change be it ever so small.

    Wishing you all the best

  2. Who you write for – well, there are those of us who keep your blog on a check-frequently list – and that goes on even if you write only for yourself. But in fact you have your own voice, distinct, and imho, very much worth reading.

  3. A constant dilemma indeed.

    I have recently been thinking very similar thoughts now that I have been blogging for a year.

    I do want to say however, that selfish as it sounds, I enjoy very much coming here and reading what ever it is you choose to share with us!

    STB

  5. I join the otheers in saying that i’d miss reading your posts if you stopped blogging…I always come out of them feeling like I learned something from the smartest kid in the room.