I Miss Them
In the past month I have seen a half dozen of my favorite blogs decide to take a break from writing. I don’t know if this is common for blogs to open and shut or take breaks. I hope ‘taking a break’is not a euphemism for stopping forever. A few actually announced they were stopping. Maybe they will come back someday. The announced reasons are boredom or ‘lack of anything else to say’. Good enough reasons to stop writing. It is one thing to endure a boring job but a boring hobby makes no sense. I support people discarding past times that have no more joy.Still, I hope they do not feel they were uninteresting or what they had to say was unimportant.
It makes me very sad to see folks go away. I’ve been wondering why this effects me so. I haven’t met any of the men and women of blog-land; I have never talked to them. All the same, these virtual friends are important to me. To see them depart is losing people I find special.
I guess I am being selfish. I want them back. But it is beyond my control and ultimately not my decision. I can only wish them luck and let them know I find them and their writings marvelous.
I live with hope that with waiting (and I am good at that) some of them will return, refreshed and with more to say.
Meanwhile the lighthouse is lit, to guide the ships on their paths – or to bring them some day back to harbor.
posted by Ur-spo at 5:54 AM
17 Comments:
You still have us! :)
I'll still read my regular blogs and leave comments.
You said it, it's a hobbie. Well to me it had become my life.
Aside from errands, I don't go out anymore. I only chat with bloggers and don't have any real live friends.
You're not virtual to me Spo you are a friend. But still you ar far away. We can't just go for coffee, a movie...
I need to move a bit. I feel useless right now. I need substance.
I did and do feel relief from not being tied to my computer all the time. I started doing other things in the house. The next step will be to go out in the world and try to build a life for me.
I guess my situation helped/made me take the easy way out.
That is what I meant by saying I feel like a broken record. Nothing happens in my life. I don't make anything happen in my life.
You are and will be a friend to me. That won't change.
Thanks Spo!?
Some are for a reason
Some are for a season
and Some are for a lifetime
It's so strange in a way to me. I've actually met quite a few bloggers in my time. Maybe it's one of the fortunate benefits of living in a large city. I also feel bad when people stop, and I agree that I feel selfish about it. Part of it is that I won't be able to hear about them, but part of it is that I doubt that they will be interested in me anymore which makes me question myself or if I am interesting.
You are not being selfish... there are some great blogs that have gone by the wayside... and one day you may also, and then I will be sad and feeling what you are feeling...
Even though you've never met the bloggers, you still feel as if you know them because of what they write. I think that's why when a blogger decides to stop, it throws you for a loop. Something you're used to is gone, the routine is upset.
I hope some of the blogs I've read in the past will come back, even if it's in a different form.
People blog for different reasons and people's lives change. Progress can be good and so can change. People will be missed, I agree, but if they are moving forward with their lives...that is great and I wish them all nothing but the best.I do miss some of the people's writings, but I know that most have moved on to something needed in their lives.
Really nice post Spo.
Perhaps the bloggers that you miss have found their way home and no longer need the lighthouse.
It's good that you still have the "light" on though, just in case their ship goes astray.
Awww..that's nice of you to think that way. It is weird. We become friends. It's hard for a freind to just go away. When real people move away they at least leave a forwarding address, huh? If I ever stop, I'll leave you my forwarding address! :) And you do the same.
For me, writing my blog never gets old. I always have something to talk about. Writing is talking.
I am terrible at goodbyes.
terrible.
I feel very strong ties to many of the bloggers I read. So many of them lay so much out there that I can't help but feel close to them.
When they stop writing, it makes me sad and I keep checking back to see if they've changed their mind.
Try to get their email address and drop them a line to see what's up? And get out there and meet them. We don't bite, but you do look good enough to eat.
I for one am glad you are out the Spo. I look forward to reading your post each day and equally look forward to the comments you leave on my blog. You have been reading my sight almost since the beginning and I count myself lucky that you are in my life. We'll meet one day. We just have to be patient and know that it'll happen.
Have a great weekend.
Nice image to put the lighthouse out to guide them back. I've lost several of my personal favorites recently and I guess it's part of blogging as in other areas of life that people move on. What's been interesting for me is to see how involved in each other's lives you can become through this medium.
same here Spo, I find myself pulled in different directions, I still love it here at blogger, and I'm also trying out wordpress to see what everyone loves about it, I find myself enjoying them both, but everyone is starting to wonder which blog I'm making my permanent home, guess I got some deciding to do. Happy 10th anniversary too!
I agree, I too feel close to the bloggers I read. When they stop, I'm left wondering. Some don't even have email addresses posted to let me reach out to them.
I love the lighthouse idea. Such a warm, inviting thought.
My blog began as a whim during a very down period in my life. It was simply a place for me to be silly and make myself laugh or smile or wonder. I never anticipated the site to reach as many people as it has.
I've imposed no "blogging rules" on myself so feel whatever I do with it is fine. I've posted multiple times in one day to no post for weeks at a time. It's all good :)
I doubt my blog will be "forever", but what has come out of it is the making of fine friends along the way. Some people I have met in person and others I share emails, chats and phone conversations. The one thing I do know is I would have never met any of them without the blog connection.
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