In December, it will be five years since I started writing in this format. Sometimes I wonder what there is still to say... Then I stumbled over this interesting site. I was intrigued at first because it reminded me of my son in his early adolescent and pre-adolescent years. He was a huge Garfield fan. Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of Jon Arbuckle. Without the Garfield character, the strips take on an entirely different, sort of disturbing quality. I like this one... It seems to speak to the essential, and often unspoken, question of those of us who blog...
Exactly! I am continually surprised that so many continue to listen to me ramble on and on about this and that; the "that is how I spent my day" stuff that is the bones of this place. What is it, I wonder, that keeps people coming here? What is it that people get from this? What is so worthwhile that people are willing to invest the time and the energy? Things to wonder about on a lazy day in the middle of the summer...
swan
I read because I like reading your blog. =) No other reason :)
ReplyDeleteIt's less about what you say, though both blogs are interesting to me, and more about how you say it. It's also how open you are. It's just neat to peek into someone's life.
ReplyDeletesin
That's an interesting perspective, swan. I love Garfield, but John alone is disturbing.
ReplyDeleteI find that when I am away from work and have plenty of free time, I have little inclination to write because there's so much other stuff to do around the house or outside. When I'm at work, I get bored, and my mind wanders to possible spanking topics. I get very productive then, just when I shouldn't be!
I always find your posts interesting, either because I can completely identify with what you're saying, or because I can't possibly imagine myself in a similar situation.
Hugs,
Hermione
You're a submissive woman living with a dominant man and you write well and intelligently. And that's what I like to read. :)
ReplyDeleteDitto what Amber said!
ReplyDeleteFirst because I was learning, then cuz you were interesting, now cuz we're sorta buds...
ReplyDeleteI keep coming back because you're so honest and so articulate. It's not some bizarre sugar-coated, rose-colored, crack-infused fantasyland. There's struggle and emotion and love and it's both raw and compelling.
ReplyDeleteFriendly & Curious
it's because you are real. you're not afraid, any of you, to reveal the realities of life - warts and all - and that is so utterly refreshing in the world of the internet crappola.
ReplyDeleteyou offer insights and other times, I can just bloody empathize with dilemmas, issues and/or places where you feel you screwed up.
It is not that it makes any of your readers feel superior; it is simply that your reality reassures us that OUR realities are, in the scheme of things, like YOURS - real and as such, problems can get solved, people with all our myriad little quirks are just fine to be who we are.