Inquiring Minds Want To Know

Many have asked me what has prompted me to go the "no comment" route. In case you haven't noticed, all comments have been turned off for my blog. However, your voices are not lost in the blogosphere shuffle because if you really wanted to tell me your opinion you could because if you look a little to your right ... no, don't turn your whole head! Just move your eyes a little ... to the ... right ... and now a little lower ... there! You'll see my email address that you can reach me at. And I will gladly take any piece of mind that you'd like to give me.

Here's the thing. Once upon a time, the comments consumed me. I wrote for the comments. My posts were thought out for the comments. All I could think was "double digits" comments. And I'd do this little trick where I wouldn't post for days on purpose so that stragglers could post their comments and build up the number.

Yeah. Pathetic. Don't get me wrong though ... sometimes I did have other things to do. But sometimes, it was really just me figuring out what my next comment generating post would be about.

And I knew that by getting comments, I had to give them. Do you know how tiring it is to comment on blogs? On every single post, whether I related to it or not, just because I wanted the comments back? Exhausting. So much so that I started up a new blog minus the comments.

The thing is, I don't work in an office job, which means I don't spend my days in front of a computer "working" but really traipsing through blogland leaving a string of comments. And don't act all shocked ... you know you do it. So me not working in an office setting meant that I had to spend my evenings doing this. Which, while I was enrolled in my Master's program, wasn't such a bad thing since I was chained to my laptop anyway and wanted any excuse possible to not work at being a Master. I loved it. I was all over the place. But then I graduated. And my reasons for being on the computer all the time were dwindling. And I found that I didn't really want to be on the computer for a long period of time anymore because, well, I didn't need to be. I got my Master's degree. I was done with all the massive papers and research. If I never saw a computer again, it would've been too soon.

So, I wasn't posting as much anymore. Wasn't commenting on comments received anymore. Stopped commenting on other blogs for the sake of getting my link out there. Everything just kind of slowed down for me.

And then ... I just came to a stop.

I was done. Blogging became something that I didn't necessarily agree with (for me). I just wanted to write. I could care less about how many comments I got. I could care less how many readers I had. I just wanted to write. And I didn't want my writing to be influenced by anyone but myself.

And here I am. A blog with comments turned off.

And funnily enough, I've noticed that I've been posting every day. And this isn't something I've done on purpose either. Whether you think I'm posting crap or a decent read is your opinion. The point is, I'm not short on things to say. I remember the days when I'd start a post with "I don't really have much to say ...", but I felt the need to post anyway. It was just silliness.

I'm so glad I'm past all that. This blog just fits. Me.