I just finished reading a post by Barbara on Blogging Without a Blog about how our long blog posts are often not being read. I am not surprised! There is just too much information out there to read and absorb. How can we keep up? We are like little hamsters on a wheel sometimes. Forever running to catch up with life!
Barbara makes a good point – we should not get upset if readers don’t read our entire post. Heck, I am just happy if a comment is real and not some spammy junk to delete! (Subtle undertext…please comment, please comment, please comment!)
Barbara’s blog is really good. In that post, she gives us some great suggestions on making your blog posts more readable (given our age of short attention spans and too much information!) but her whole blog is a GREAT resource for bloggers. She does this thing called Blog of the Week where she highlights a blog for her readers. You can find new bloggers to read and posts giving tips on all things bloggy. It is really fun.
It has been a wonderful weekend of catching up on my internet world. Yesterday, I was reading a great post by Henie who was saying that she reveled in the joy of meeting people online… she went the bold and crazy route to associate social media with the new phrase “social intercourse”, which definitely turned some heads (and got people listening and reading her entire post)!
Going back to Barbara’s post about people not reading our long posts, there seemed to be a consensus that it is really OK to just be how you are with your reading, commenting, blogging and – as our wonderful Henie puts it in her Social Intercourse (SOIN) post – having social intercourse! (Go Henie!)
So yesterday, we went to the Minnesota Zoo for my daughter’s birthday. She is now officially 8. I went with a large group of people and it is a very big zoo. There is a big loop with all of the outdoor animals and then there is an entire indoor section because we DO live in Minnesota and the zoo is year-round. (In Minnesota, for those of you who have never been, the extremes of summer and winter both make indoor zoos appealing!)
I guess my point in all of this is that there is just too much stuff. Too much animals, too much walking, too many words in blog posts, too much information being thrown my way and – while I am at it – too much food when you order something at a restaurant!
Why?!
And, more importantly, what can we do to save ourselves from drowning in a mountain of “toomuchness”?
Well, relax.
No, really… just relax your body.
Breathe.
I don’t think that anyone is expecting you to get through it all. Everyone else is too busy drowning in their own “toomuchness”! All we really need to do is…
Stop.
Take a break.
Sit on a bench and watch the monkeys at the zoo. Or watch the monkeys downtown. Or watch your little monkeys on the jungle gym at the park. Just sit for a moment and observe the crazy whirlwind. Maybe if enough of us do this, the world will actually slow down a bit.
so we can watch the little piggies too!
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Hi Amy,
First, thank you so much for your kind words and review of my blog. I truly appreciate it.
I do agree. We all seem to have a case of “toomuchness”. Oddly enough, prior to starting my blog, I already had a plate full. Now as the plate has expanded into being a platter, I again find it over flowing.
Where’s that bench?
Barbara Swafford’s last blog post..For The Sake Of The Children – Blog Smart
Thanks for the visit & the comment, Barbara.
Yes, the more I dig deeper into my spiritual nature, the more I seem to come up empty-handed, which is how it is meant to be. I was talking with Phil Bolsta, who I will be interviewing next Wednesday for my radio show and he reminded me that our work is what we find ourselves doing when we should be working! I thought that was great. The ego wants us to seek, but not to find, and I think that blogging is one of those areas where we all love to connect and at the same time we find ourselves most alone.
The key, I believe, is to accept the two sides of the coin and to realize that we are all alone AND we are all connected! Both are true in any moment. It is just a matter of perspective. A few weeks ago, I interviewed Bob Kull – Bob is a man who spent a great deal of his life and spiritual quest in identifying this conundrum and I think that he explains it beautifully in our interview. I hope that you can take an HOUR and listen in! (Yeah, and if I thought that skimming comments was bad and I ask people to take a whole HOUR?!) It is worth it. Trust me! Thanks again for reading and commenting. Every little bit helps.
Hi again Amy,
Although I don’t have time today, I’ll make the time and listen to the interview. It sounds like a fabulous resource. Kudos to you for nailing that interview.
Barbara Swafford’s last blog post..For The Sake Of The Children – Blog Smart
Time is such a precious commodity, isn’t it?