Can't say the war is over yet, and I'm feeling drained. So instead of writing something meaningful, I will write my thoughts and you can find meaning in them, or not.
I started Sapphire Cat with the idea of starting a conversation. People would submit their stories and post forum topics and the whole thing would snowball into a beautiful chatty community.
As time has passed, conversations have not taken off, my blog hits have even gone down. I could get frustrated. I could give up. I could work myself into a lather trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong and what I could do better. In the past I would have gotten bored and torn this blog down long before now. But I'm enjoying this blog. I like the evolution and the building process. I can build, look back at my work, and build some more.
This week I began reading a blog of a good friend from my past (Facebook friends now). Her blog is four years old. So instead of ruining the ending, I went back to 2010 and started reading her blog from its inception. She doesn't get many comments, and she doesn't have any followers (that I can tell), she doesn't even have a theme. It's more like a public journal, and it is fascinating watching her life unfold before me. I am dying to know what happens. It's like a long memoir that sometimes loses it's focus. (Maybe I should contact her and tell her how to focus her blog to make it more interesting for me.) The intriguing thing is that with real life you don't have to have a tied up, happy ending, and yet, you also know there is no ending, it just keeps going. So eventually, when I catch up to her life in 2014, if I don't like what has happened, I can just wait until her next post and her next and her next...
This makes me wonder if I should change things up here on Sapphire Cat.
I started Sapphire Cat with the idea of starting a conversation. People would submit their stories and post forum topics and the whole thing would snowball into a beautiful chatty community.
As time has passed, conversations have not taken off, my blog hits have even gone down. I could get frustrated. I could give up. I could work myself into a lather trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong and what I could do better. In the past I would have gotten bored and torn this blog down long before now. But I'm enjoying this blog. I like the evolution and the building process. I can build, look back at my work, and build some more.
This week I began reading a blog of a good friend from my past (Facebook friends now). Her blog is four years old. So instead of ruining the ending, I went back to 2010 and started reading her blog from its inception. She doesn't get many comments, and she doesn't have any followers (that I can tell), she doesn't even have a theme. It's more like a public journal, and it is fascinating watching her life unfold before me. I am dying to know what happens. It's like a long memoir that sometimes loses it's focus. (Maybe I should contact her and tell her how to focus her blog to make it more interesting for me.) The intriguing thing is that with real life you don't have to have a tied up, happy ending, and yet, you also know there is no ending, it just keeps going. So eventually, when I catch up to her life in 2014, if I don't like what has happened, I can just wait until her next post and her next and her next...
This makes me wonder if I should change things up here on Sapphire Cat.