Don’t stop til you get enough!
As the end of the year rapidly approaches, I find myself thinking…everyone is all about the new year being a time for new beginnings and starting over. But really, you can have a new beginning any time of the year. Just because the lunar cycle or the designated 365 days (or so) in a calendar year are set to recycle, doesn’t mean that anything changes. Monday will still be just another Monday (although a holiday), and the weekend will come and go, and we’ll all still be here. A new mayor for DC will be sworn in, the country will bury another past President, and someone somewhere will be gearing up for a lawsuit.
The past few months I’ve contemplated stopping City Sparkle…I’ve found that my ideas and postings have become fewer and farther between. Sometimes I’m lucky to post once a week, whereas for over a year, I was posting daily. But then I realized that overall, I should go for quality, not quantity. Who cares if I’m not posting on a daily basis anymore? It’s tiring to keep up with fresh snark and witty insight. And sometimes, there just isn’t anything going on or something amazing and new to discover. I considered the fact that maybe a lot of the changes and things I would like to accomplish should be done on my own, and not broadcast over a blog. But, maybe I’m not ready for that yet, and I need the option to blog whenever and whatever I want to.
The downside to saying you’re retiring the blog, or abandoning it, is the fact that there are just some days when you need to get it out there. You have something to say, and you want to say it. I don’t particularly care if someone agrees or disagrees, but I like to look back and say, hey, this is what I thought about this issue. This is how I felt. This is what I did. After all, what is a blog really but an online diary? Sure you may focus on politics, or celebrities, but the point is that you focus on your own opinions (and in some cases feed off of other people’s).
So, here I am…rapidly heading towards 2007 and another year of blogging. I can’t say that things are going to change, or become better or worse, because unfortunately I can’t predict the future. But, I can say that it’s been a good ride, and I’m grateful for the love and support I have (both through and beyond the blogging community). I’m looking forward to what choices I’ll make and what will become of my life over the next year. Because although January 1, 2007 is really going to be no different than December 31, 2006…it still in theory symbolizes a new beginning. And that’s enough for me.
