I remember the first years when blogging was introduced over the internet. I really enjoyed reading other people’s posts because it’s like being able to know them as a friend. I can get a peek into someone’s daily life, into a person’s thoughts. It’s like reading a letter from a friend far away and more.
Through the years however, blogging evolved. Social media became more prominent and blogs became more focused, mine included. The usual personal tone became more formal, and what used to be a blog eventually became a website just like all the rest.
I think that’s when blogging died. When people left. When all that was left were website content catered to address only a specific subject matter instead of being the usual hodgepodge of ideas and things and thoughts that normally reflect an ordinary person’s life. Because a person is not made up of only one idea.
I may, for example, be able to write poems, but that is not all that I could do. I may also be able to sing and compose songs, but I do not sing all the time. I am also a person of faith, but faith is not limited to things that are usually seen as spiritual like praying or going to Church. A person of faith also eats and enjoys food, also sleeps, also enjoys travel, also watches movies and reads books.
All those years that my blog has forgotten these other things, I may have also forgotten other parts of myself. Now I want to remember, I want to be the whole person that I really am. For a moment, I may have set it aside, but I can pick up the pieces again. Blogging may have died, but it can live again.
The thing about hope is that it’s a positive force that shines the most when it’s dark. When everything’s going well, we hardly notice it’s there. But when things go against us, when our dreams fade and when we see no immediate reprieve from our troubles, that’s when hope does its best work for us.
"Where Hope Can Be Found"