Almost 1000 Visitors....Wow!

I happened to notice the count on my blog and was shocked to see that I'm at 995 visits for my blog. Almost 1000 people have stopped by my bit of cyberspace and read my words. Amazing. I feel as though I ought to have something monumental to say in regards to this momentous occasion. I don't. I'm blogless tonight I think.

Let's see...

I'm still trying to figure out what the goal of this blog should be. I write about whatever I think is worth sharing and it's kind of all over the place. Sometimes I read the blogs of others and think that what I think and have to say is null and void. There are so many people out there who are really gifted as writers. Their blogs are focused on a purpose - as if they have a life purpose and are using their blogs to communicate it. It makes me wonder why I blog and why I think that my words should be heard. Sometimes I just don't have anything super good to say!

There are many days that pass and my deep, extra-juicy thought for the day gets lost somewhere in the casserole that I was working on around 6pm. I cannot seem to recall that thought when I sit down and want to blog later that evening.

There are many days that pass and what I really want to blog about would be a little too personal and would only show the world (the nano-portion of the world that reads this blog) that I'm really one of the most unorganized, confused, overwhelmed people you will ever meet.

There are days I want to blog about how I feel like running out into the street screaming b/c my head might explode with the pressures I face but I'm too embarrassed to lose my cool.

I don't blog about those days because those days are not the days I want to dwell on nor are they the days I want to create a written record of.

Maybe I should...

I know that I learn just as much from the success of some as the failures of others. I learn as much from the triumphs of one lady and the defeat of another. I grow from listening to the wisdom of one elderly person and the regrets of another person with some time under their belt.

Maybe there are people who suffer in silence because we walk around, going about our days, and passing through our lives hiding - hiding the parts that are real, that we don't want other people to see.

Maybe one generation suffers the pitfalls of the next simply b/c the first generation gave no warning about the impending dangers.

Maybe more people circle the Promised Land because they have not been given the key to entry.

I don't want to circle. I want to enter. This means I need people to be honest with me and I need to be honest with others.

That's what I try to do in this blog. Be honest. Not perfect. Not super holy...but honest.

Blogging goes beyond having a presence on the web. At least for me it does. It's a way to process my thoughts - to get them out of my head. Blogging forces me to clarify and makes me think about what it is that I believe, what I have learned, and where I am growing as I walk out my time on this earth.

Whether or not you blog, I encourage you to think. Think about what you are doing with your life - what you have done with it - what you have learned and how you are using your education to make better decisions in the future.

Think about whether or not you extending the ladder of your experience to someone else that can benefit from where you have been and what you have gleaned.

Children, friends, and acquaintances can all stand to learn from you. Are you willing to share?...to be honest...to risk embarassment so that someone can sidestep a pit you may have fallen into or a crack in the sidewalk you may have tripped on?

I want to be willing. This blog is a start. Thanks for reading as I review my lessons learned from my journey traveled.