One Year
Believe it or not, as of today, I will have been writing in this blog for exactly one year. I think about everything that happened in my life during this past year, and I'm really glad I started this blog and wrote my thoughts down along the way. While I don't know if future years will be as eventful or thought provoking, I guess I'll keep writing as long as I have the urge to write. And hopefully my blog will be interesting enough for people to keep reading.
One thing I remember from the very early days of starting my blog was a friend telling me "oh yeah, you're in the 'honeymoon stage' of blogging". Basically he was saying that I was writing a lot in the beginning, but eventually I'd get sick of it and stop updating as much, or even updating at all. After all, that's what happened to him and most other people who had been blogging before me.
But my response was, I don't believe in the "honeymoon stage" theory - not for blogs, not for relationships, not for my religious beliefs, not for anything. In fact, I hate the very idea of a "honeymoon stage". My philosophy in life is, why go nuts for a short while in the beginning, and then let yourself burn out after that? If you have a great relationship, it shouldn't only be good in the first few months, it should be good throughout. If you want to be a good Christian, don't count on "revivals" and "retreats" to fire you up for a few weeks and then let your passion die after that. Same goes, albeit to a less serious extent, for blogging.
And as I write here and now, one year later, I think I can be proud to say that I avoided that honeymoon trap, at least up to this point. I'm also really happy to see that so many of my friends who have started their own pages manage to write regularly too.
Anyways, there isn't much more to this entry, other than wishing a Happy 1st Birthday to Dudo509 Blogspot. Last week, I planned to go through my archives and highlight the "noteworthy" entries of this blog, but I just haven't had the time. So hopefully if I get the chance in the next few days, I'll be able to post something like that as a "one-year reflection" in blog-world.
