Belated

Last Wednesday was the two-year anniversary of this blog.

Totally missed it. I never even thought of it until today.

In many ways it seems as though it has been much longer than two years that I have been doing this thing called blogging. In other ways, it still seems like a new experience.

I have met so many great people here. Many more than I would have met during the past two years had I not been blogging. And the fact that so many of the folks that I have met live within my own state is something that amazes me. Even though we live within a few hundred miles of each other, I never would have met these folks except through blogging. Had we met, I am sure that we would not have had the same exchange of the happenings in our lives, or maintained such a long connection had it not been for blogging.

Then there are the folks that I have met who live very far from me. Surely I would never have met them except through blogging. Certainly it would not have included such an intimate exchange of our lives as has occurred through blogging.

When I was young, I always wanted a pen pal. I tried to find one through a pen pal exchange. It just never worked out. I had visions of a friend across the ocean, who would know me even though we lived far apart. I wanted to learn about their life, like reading a novel set in an exotic location, but through a real person. Now I have that through blogging.

Basically, I am a shy person. But here I am, on the backside of middle life, getting to know people near and far.  For me, writing on a blog provides the perfect way to introduce myself to someone new. I can write about myself in a way that I would never be able to tell someone I was just getting to know in person. The bloggers I have met in person have been easy to talk to, as we have already established the basics of the “getting to know you” phase.

My little blog doesn’t have the big following of many other blogs. But those folks who have come to visit seem to stick around, for whatever reason. It amazes me each day that there are real people out there in the world who are reading what I have written.

Thanks for the past two years (and 5 days)!

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