A friend mentioned that I am not posting regularly anymore, which of course is true. It set me to remembering when posting was a daily occurrence, over many years. How many posts? Over how many years? I looked at the site’s dashboard for statistics:
My first post was on March 9, 2007, nearly 17 years ago. Since then:
- 4,356 posts, of which all but three are mine, or are credited to me. (Sometimes people would write something I would use as a guest posting, but the stats still attributed it to me.)
- These posts have drawn 7894 comments, of which 1833 were mine, presumably in response to something someone said.
March 2007 to now makes 201 months. Divide 4,353 posts by 201 and you get an average of a little more than 21 posts per month, the equivalent of one every business day for nearly 17 years. That’s a lot of postings, enough to make something of an afterthought of anything that may follow.
Those posts greatly helped me grow. Thank you again, Frank & TGU❤️
Wow! That’s a body of work. I believe I’ve read most of your posts, Frank, and although I’ve seldom responded, I’ve always appreciated your passion for sharing. And I also appreciate your not posting as often is, although I continue to look for your pieces.
Thank you for sharing with us. Be well. Stay well. Enjoy life.
In peace. Kennedy
Forever grateful to you Frank. Your books and posts greatly helped me grow, and still does more than ever (besides our good friend Charles Sides whom I have learned to know through you).
Thanks, Inger Lise and Kennedy. As I have said many times, knowing that someone is finding the material of use is a great help.
Yes! However it’s useful to recognize where this feeling comes from, a diminished sense of self worth. I have had this too.
One way I’ve found to add joy nuggets to my life is to create abundant positive reinforcement feedback loops. After a while those convinced my subconscious that what I was doing was of great help and there was no need for self doubt or more external validation.
It is still appreciated of course and sought from other perspectives, but in the subtly shifted way that “knowing” is enough.
As the TGU would say, everything you do is important in the grand experiment!
So go big, you can’t lose!