Starting a new life is rarely easy, but it can be rewarding if you but allow it to be. As I sit here in my office listening to the hustle and the bustle of a typical Friday in transportation, I am reminded of where I was when I started my previous blog.
Back then, January of 2008, I was sitting in my home office, in tears, missing a great love and trying to figure out how I would ever survive without him. No, he really didn't "leave" me, but he had just moved 1000 miles away and I was heartbroken. So what did I do? I wrote about our first date. It made me feel closer to him.
And you know what else? Writing about it made me feel better.
I really didn't start seriously blogging for about a year and a half after that, but I did ocassionally allow the power of posting my words to help me through some very difficult times. And then the writing bug really hit me and I devoted a good amount of time to it. I never did have one set course for my writing. It was always about what I felt like at that moment.
I think back and laugh at how many times some of us would be talking and say "Now that would make a great blog post!" Sometimes there is nothing better than the power of the written word.
I met life long friends in that far far away Blogland and for that I will always be grateful.
So today I start my journey in this "new" Blogland, silently hoping that I will come to love it as much as I used to.
I figure if I am sitting in an office again (albeit a different one) and pondering all sorts of things, it bodes well for this new blog of mine.
I am glad you are off to a good start.
ReplyDeleteOr, as our friend Smarty said: Yikes, Red is ahead of me.
Bubbles said: She's not playing aroud.
I'm on a search, myself. I don't even know what it is supposed to bring me.
But if it gives me half as much as what I got before: Great friends....I'll be really happy.
Glad to be your first post! I rock. :)
Ah!!! I love that you are my first comment!
ReplyDeleteAnd I think 2011 is going to be THE year for us. Or if nothing else, a year of many changes.
It's OK. I like being second. Great post and I agree that this new adventure will be very good for all of us :)
ReplyDeleteSmarty, this will be a great "new" home for all of us!!
ReplyDeleteSmarty, do you promise it wil be good?
ReplyDeleteLike I just said, I don't want to deal with any more sad. I act all tough, but I'm a big whimp when it comes to some things!
Not a chicken. Just a whimp.
If all that ever happens here is that I get to laugh so hard I'm crying as I'm writing my latest blog post... like tonight, then goddamn I'll be estastic!
ReplyDeleteAh but re-read this First Post and you'll see that you already have things off to a great start...but hey that could just me thinking about the blog about blogging I wrote last night...haha
ReplyDeleteWell, Rob, I guess I will have to check out your post from last night, eh?
ReplyDeleteI am liking my new home. DO you like the colors?