For those of us on WordPress.com, where this blog presently resides, we get these updates whenever we write at least a post a day. WordPress.com calls them ‘streaks’.
People who do laundry are familiar with streaks, too, so I’m not sure that’s a good thing. WordPress.com also doesn’t give prizes for this other than another one the next day.
Not very inspiring. I’m not sure if that helps anyone, actually.
What I am sure of is that I’m back in the rhythm of writing, though I will admit that I’m not working on the book(s) as much and I do need to focus a bit more on that.
Some of the things I’ve learned over the last 90 days is how so many people will like a blog post but how little cross-linking there is to riff with other people. There are good ideas out there worth cross-planting with. Then there are the people who just like things so that you look at their stuff – which works maybe a few times if their stuff isn’t all that grand.
Hiding underneath all of that are the actual likes, which aren’t as representative of traffic. Strangely, RealityFragments.com has a lot more content – almost double at present that of KnowProSE.com, largely because that’s a more serious blog – yet KnowProSE.com has more SEO penetration, perhaps because… it’s a more serious blog. Strange how that works.
At the same time, and perhaps related, I have been seeing a psychologist regularly to check on whether or not I’m completely bonkers. As it happens, I’m not, so there is that, but it’s been interesting unraveling myself with her as I unravel other things elsewhere. It’s helped a bit with the introspection.
In normal introspection, we’re there, we’re thinking about things, and we hopefully come out better for the experience. Yet some things are tied to observations of other people, and people can be so ludicrous that I wonder at times if I’m not the crazy one.
When you look at things like The Fumigator and note how everyone else just ignores the strange behavior, there is a part of me that wonders at times if I’m not the one who is a little bit… off. I see this more often than not, these behaviors that others gloss over. I’m not going to say in any way that I’m some standard of normal – I am not – but I do wonder if when we ignore some strange behaviors if we’re not ourselves being a little crazy ourselves. In the case of the fumigator, I was a silent observer trying to figure out what was going on, but everyone else just… went about their business as if nothing crazy was happening.
This could explain governments around the world.
It disturbs me a little that we have gotten to this level of complacency about so many things. I suppose, in a way, that’s what my writing is about – not being complacent, not just doing what you’re told because you are told, and being aware of things and working towards making the world better.