Evolution

Lately some of my friends have given up blogging. They haven't actually taken their blogs down, but they no longer post. I guess to take a blog down completely is a bit like moving away from home. It is often the only attachment we have to people we have met through the years. So to completely remove the blog breaks all connection to old friends, which for some is very hard to do. It is hard to lose friends, even ones who we don't ever really get to know well. When I first started blogging, some two years or so ago, I met a few people who I still communicate with today, others have gone by the wayside, for whatever reason.

I was sitting here tonight contemplating why people blog, and why they end blogging. I know there are many different reasons, but I think for most of us blogging fills a need for communication. Some people are very intimate, they tell very personal things about themselves, others stay strictly generic, others only like politics, some religion. I gravitate towards people who share a bit about themselves and their life. I guess it is like reading the tabloids, a bit of curiosity at first. Then as time goes by you begin to feel that you really know this person, and communicate on a friendship level, so when someone ends their blog it is much like losing an old friend. When herhimnbryn stopped blogging I sure hated to see her go......when billiebluebeanjeans stopped I missed her also. And there have been many others. But I suppose a person can't do this forever, or can they. I guess the trick is to not let it become an obligation. To blog when you feel like it, and rest assured that your friends will continue to be here during the breaks. I have taken many breaks, but I always return. Just like a bad penny. haha