Today marks the two-year anniversary of this weblog. It’s been at times frustrating, exhilarating, illuminating, intense, funny, sad, fascinating, and a host of other adjectives. I had no idea when I started this that it would literally change my life. But it has, in some ways I understand and some ways I probably won’t ever fully comprehend.
Mostly, when I think back on it, I think of the people I’ve met. People you meet through weblogs are unlike any other – you know things about them that maybe even their families don’t know, but you also often don’t know things that they willingly tell to the clerk at the post office. So it’s a strange combination. What I do know for sure is that my life is richer for having known them. I won’t name names, as you know who you are. And I don’t want to leave anyone out.
The writing is fun, but it’s also a continual struggle – am I writing for myself, or for my “audience”? What about things I really feel like writing about, but I don’t think are “appropriate”? I haven’t got a handle on that yet. This site is certainly much less personal than many weblogs, but I think if you hang around here for a while, you get a sense of who I am. I think I like it that way. My life is not an Oprah episode, and neither is words mean things.
I still think about why I do this, even after two years. Like most people, it’s a whole host of reasons: I want to be popular. I want to have a voice. I want to entertain. I want to promote myself on the web. I want to write every day to keep my brain working. It’s all a big jumble, but it’s kept me going for two years. And unlike many people (including some of my favorite webloggers), I don’t see myself “taking a break” or shutting down altogether. At times it’s frustrating, and at times I feel like I don’t have much to say. Who knows what the future will bring, but for now, I’m enjoying myself too much to stop.
You have been warned.
Thank you all for stopping by over the years to read these insane ramblings. It means a lot to me.
i dream of a blog that exists only for me to tell all. and i mean all. a blog that reveals all the light and all the darkness as well. a blog that ultimately helps people to see that we are truly related in this confusing cosmic journey. but i’m too scared. what if everybody else isn’t as much of a nutcase as myself? so for now i blog as the masses do and reveal some things while keeping others in the locked file cabinet part of my soul. good post.
Congrats on the anniversary, and glad to have been here for almost a year of it.
congrats on two full years. 🙂
Congratulations! As one of my favorite bloggers, I’m glad to see that you enjoy it so much and plan on keeping it up. Quite simply, you rule.
Congrats 🙂
who are these people? do you speak to any of them out loud?
I remember those first days of WMT back in the Manila era – it’s come a long ways. Congratulations.
i can’t decide whether it’s sad that i need a blog to have a voice, or wonderful that i have a voice through my blog. but i do know that your site, adam, is one of the few of the many, many blogs i read or have read that has changed the way i live my life (“when taking a picture, get closer.”)
Thanks.
Happy anniversary, Adam.