Returning to the Blogosphere

I was skeptical about returning. In some ways, I don’t think I fit into the realm of blogs anymore. It isn’t that I don’t like writing anymore, because it’s still a passion with me. All the same, I’ve become somewhat detached from the internet all together. My time online has decreased to two hours a day, sometimes just a smidgen more than that. Some things happened this last summer that changed me both emotionally and intellectually. My perspective of life has been altered. Yet, undeterred by those events, my passion for writing has sustained. Perhaps the need to connect with others more will return to me, so here I am writing gibberish on my blog again.

There were times during the last months, days upon days, when I didn’t write at all. During those stretches, I questioned what the point was in the practice of writing because I have yet to publish anything other than what I put on this blog. Even at that, I don’t have a large following. In fact, the list is trifling. Eventually, it dawned on me that the purposes of my blog has been for me, at least should be. It shouldn’t be for the followers. Some blogs are for the followers, and I’m one of those people in some instances. I’m glad that the authors are there plugging along at their articles so I can learn. Nevertheless, mine just has the purpose of letting me write so I can evaluate how I am doing with the skill. If the few followers I have, choose to comment, I’m grateful for the feedback.

I know I’ve written all this before in some form here on this blog, and with the utmost in good intentions. Yet, I also know I swayed from those objectives with the thought that I had to amplify my scope and draw more followers to my blog. After rereading a few of the posts from my favorite blog authors, I realized that they were keeping their list of topics small, and, instead, expanding their perspective of those subjects. That is what I should have been doing. And even at that, I should be doing it for my benefit, not the benefit of the reader.

Does this sound selfish? I doubt that it sounds like anything else. What I’m shooting for is to bring back the soul and compassion I used to have in my writing. It seems to me readers would enjoy my posts more if I did this.

During the next six to eight weeks, I’ll be re-categorizing and re-tagging most of my posts of the past. Hopefully by doing this, you, as a reader, will more easily find what you’re looking for, if anything. I don’t know how many will end up in the category of “uncategorized” yet.

I am a writer. I may not be well-skilled, polished, or even decent at the craft, but I am persistent. Until, at least, the first of the new year, I’ll be posting once a month. If you’re interested in what I write, I hope you’ll choose to follow me.

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“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou