7 years changes a lot.
A blog documents about 3 percent of a person’s life in my opinion. I would have to do nonstop writing to document it all and then I’d be blogging not living. I don’t know if it’s just me or if it’s widespread because my perspective could be slanted but doesn’t it feel like the majority of blogland is bored with blogging? I’ve seen tons of people move, change, stop writing, and perhaps start living? Perhaps we latch onto blogging when times are tough in order to work through those times. In fact that’s what I did.
I’m not perfect now…but I was certainly a mess then. When I think about the person I am now and how I’m living my life compared to who I was back in 2001, I nearly shudder at the vast differences. I’m still the same person but greatly improved. I was just looking at my grades and schedule, just got another A-. I’ll take it. I have 39 credits left and then I can enroll into a Masters Degree program. Me? Yes, sometimes I scare myself at how much I have changed.
A co-worker of mine just said “ya know what I can’t understand? Why can’t chickens talk like parrots? It’s so unfair.”
I think personal blogland might be getting bored with blogging but in other areas it is heating up. Such as www.slashdot.org and thousands of other techie blogs. I do think you are right, when we are down or something goes wrong we logon to find people in similar situations. I think the catch to that is that people who have had bad effects of something say a surgery or who are down are the ones blogging more than the ones with successes or who are not down….they are all out living life.