I write all these things on here, fully aware that one day at some point it’ll all be held against me. I’m brutally honest and I know that there are some out there who only read it for that purpose and maliciously at that. It’s fine. I sort of see it as stealing their thunder a bit.
I realize my candor probably hurts me most in the realm of my personal relationships, because people know “oh he’s gonna blog about this or that for sure”. Partly, they are correct, I do blog when I’m at my most emotional, I’m trying to get out of that. At first it was a good outlet for me, until…well the bad started to outweigh the good.
Now it seems worse, because like, the stats say people come by, but the comments belie that. At least before I knew who was out there, now it seems like I’m playing to a crowd that’s laughing at me as opposed to with me, like Petey Greene on the Tonight Show in Talk To Me (yeah I just saw that yesterday so it’s on my mind).
I feel like that dream where I go to school naked. How did I even get myself into this situation?
August 20th, 2008 at 11:23 am
I’m one of those lurkers, of course. I usually don’t comment on here because I speak with you often. Also, I come here to learn other things about you that you might not otherwise share with me.
I’m definitely not laughing at you when you write about serious issues, things that have you down, etc. I admire your writing skills and your courage to share things (good, bad, and funny) on the web.
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I am a first time visitor and reader of your blog man and I feel your pain. I recently almost gave up blogging because no one was commenting. And although it can be very disheartening, I got over it because simply I blog for the love of the game. In any event, you have some real talent here. Keep it up.