Melissa was the first person I didn’t already know who linked from her blog to mine. Little does she know the thrill I got when I found that a stranger had read my weblog, and liked it enough to link to it. She wrote a post this week that gets to the heart of something I’ve been mulling over for some time now.
About I Really Must Insist You Leave, she wrote: “It amazes me how some people can catch this fleeting bit of their lives and put it down so exactly on paper. And I have never met this person, and they have no idea who I am, and yet it’s as if we share something.”
I too am amazed by weblogs’ ability to connect people. When you get started reading someone’s words regularly, it’s weird and wonderful how you enter in a sort of relationship with them – when they are happy, you’re happy; when they go through bad times, you feel for them. I feel I’ve gotten to know and like people like Melissa and Mike just from their pages. My writing on this page is not very personal, but I hope people get at least some sense of my personality (or maybe not – I don’t want to scare anybody). Words are powerful things.