The cynical optimist

In a weeks time this blog will turn four years old. 

and what a four years it has been.

I orginally started this blog as a place to write my way through life, to understand myself and to grow and write freely and more openly than I could in other places because I didn’t think anybody would ever find this blog and clearly I was wrong, as of wirting this 53 of you have followed this blog and so many more have read something or other of mine and I couldn’t be more grateful for all of you who have commented, liked, followed or interacted with this page in any way. There’s a good chance that I may have given up on this a long time ago if I had been on my own. 

So what have I learned over the past four years? 

About blogging not much…I’m still kinda flying blind.

About myself? A lot more. 

I’ve become more confident in my writing, more confident in myself in general. Four years ago I was showing my work to only a select few of my closest friends now i’m writing for over 50? That is incredible. A lot of what I talk about on here is personal stuff, like I said I wanted to use this to work through some of the things I was going through because writing out problems helps me see them more clearly and helps me see a solution and who knows maybe somebody else is going through the same thing and they stumble across this blog and they see they are not alone, at least I hope that one day happens. 

I’ve also been thinking of actually trying to grow the audience here and this year was the start of that, I set out on a goal to at least write one blog post a month and this will be my 11th post of the year so i’m right on track to do that. I did have to double up on some months to catch up because when the pandemic entered its first month I did nothing, I shut down and didn’t read, didn’t write did nothing but work and try to stay healthy, and then in June it was a mix of still trying to understand the rollercoaster of a year we were having and it being the new summer surge and feeling tired and worn out so again anything productive took a back seat.

However, like I said after this post I will be back on track to have 12 posts this year and I am extremely proud of that. This year hasn’t been easy but I still managed to do this. I kept up with it, I created something and I am so happy with how everything has turned out. I’m hoping 12 is only a minimum in the years to come and not the goal. I think there is something here and I want to keep creating. 

So here’s to four years of blogging! thank you for those who have joined me on this journey, you being here makes this experience worth it, and here’s to many more years! 

Let me know if there is anything you want to see from this blog in the future, any topics you’d like me to write about and I will do what I can.

and like it says on my welcome page and with the future dawning soon I’ll say it again.

Here goes nothing…