Repeat After Me: YOU WILL BLOG TODAY!

Ye Gods where does the time go? One minute your bowling along merrily, enjoying life and writing about as much as you can. The next minute you suddenly look up and realise that you haven't put finger to keyboard for over a fortnight and you can't quite remember what has gone on in the intervening space.

All of this was brought screaming into focus, when I logged on this evening to discover that one of my Blogparents passed out of cyberspace recently and I wasn't there to witness it. Mike of Troubled Diva has ceased to blog. Much as this causes me a pang of loss and grief, the funny thing about it all is that, when you read his reasons for calling it a day, they have a strong correlation with the phenomenon I mentioned above.

I grew up in an age of blogging when a whole gang of us would congregate on a tagboard to chat in the mornings, sometimes from 8 am through until lunchtime. All of us had jobs where free time was available, were at home for various reasons or lived in a different timezone. I had vast chunks of my day to write a blog although, considering the content of my life at the time, inspiration was thin on the ground. Then, as all good things do, it gradually began to dwindle to its enevitable end. People left the tagboard as work suffered. I was shifted to another office full of all the bastards in hell, who would rather I sit in total boredom than use the Internet. So Peter retired his tagboard as the cobwebs were gathering on its built-in smileys.

Then my life began to change radically. I met PK, we did all kinds of things I'd never done before. I began to take regular exercise. The bastards of hell made me redundant. I attended interviews and got a new job. They turned out to be bastards too, so I left. I got another job which I am so happy in it's untrue and I can finally see a future.

Inspiration at last. Changes and innovation in my life. A time to write surely? Nope, blog entries down to a pitiful few. My bad.

So I understand totally where Mike is coming from. My blog output started to dwindle, whereas he continued to juggle life and work and a superior blog. I'm surprised he lasted this long without spontaneously combusting! All the very best for the future Mike and thanks for giving your time and art so generously.