The other day Im complaining to myself that I have few readers here, and its it worth it to continue.
So, Id compare myself to Syd, or Steve or Andrew and say Hey! they've got peeps. Dozens if not hundreds of "peeps" as Steve calls his beloved readers. "Why, i have to be like them, and have many many readers, otherwise my blog aint worth a damn", my diseased thinking was telling me.
I even went so far as to google up ideas on how to drive traffic here, how to get my blog noticed through search engines and such. It just seemed like too much trouble to do that. So I let it go. And then the "thoughts angel" appeared and asked me why? Why is it so important to have a ton of readers? Would that make me someone important? Special? yeah, thats it. It seems my ego wanted to be acknowledged, to be "acclaimed".
So tonight, I was thinking about the readers I have....Seth, Syd, Steve, Betty Ann and a few others, I thought "How nice that there is something I have to say that they like to hear", and I was very much grateful for that. So, I hope to continue with posting interesting, uplifting and "real" stories of my life......
and with that....look above, I have a cool story to tell....
ICU Nurse it is
2 years ago
3 comments:
Well you are ahead of me. Syd definitely seems to be the most experienced of the Al-Anon bloggers that I have seen lately, but that doesn't mean the rest of us should stop doing our thing. I struggle with it too, wondering whether or not I should continue, and I haven't even been doing my Al-Anon blog that long. We do this for ourselves though, not anyone else, right?
Christina, definitely keep blogging if you enjoy it. I can remember when I first started. Tabitha told me that the way to get people to read was to comment on their blogs. So that's what I did. I read and commented and then people did the same. I learned by reading others and by writing something. It helped me to focus my thoughts and to express things that I was thinking in response to what others wrote.
There is so much knowledge and good stuff on recovery on line. And I appreciate all of it. Thanks for all that you write and share here.
readership is a good thing.....but it's not everything.
I do it because I like to......though I wish I had more energy these days to do it......
Keep on keeping on chica.
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