Goodbye Blog

After much thought and some prayer on this, I've decided to stop blogging. When I started it, I was very enthusiastic. I have always loved to write and to create an online journal made sense. However there is one piece of this that never worked - other people reading it. Don't get me wrong - I liked that and found it exciting and there is even a person I would never have met any other way. But it put limits on my writing that cramped this as a real outlet for my journalling. I am the first one to admit that I don't mind being fussed over and paid attention - not sure that's a good thing. I want people to like me. And unfortunately, this is a part of my life that I think is better to remain personal so my pride doesn't get out of whack. I've found myself returning to my hand written journal recently because my computer is better left to work related things. If I use the computer to journal the line gets pretty blurred. Simplicity - a spiritual discipline that I'm rather bad at. I will continue to read the blogs of others and maybe will someday return to it..... but at the moment this is an end to an era. I was also a little uneasy about losing track of all the writing I had done with it. Perhaps that is the old fashioned part of me that feels that if I can't touch it, it isn't real. SO!!! I've printed off my 100+ pages of blogged material to file away with the rest of my journalling volumes. Goodbye bloggy friends as a writer. This has been fun but it's back to basics for me.