Comments.
Remember when you first became a blogger and you didn't quite understand what comments were or even how to leave them on other people's blogs?
Do you remember how you felt when someone first left you a comment?
I can! I can remember all of these with a huge grin and a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. It's what happened when I awoke one morning following a dream I had that I believed was inspired by God. He told me to start a blog and even what the name should be.
Now how to go about beginning a blog shouldn't require a college degree to get it going, and in fact thanks to Blogger, with simple and easy to use templates, I was all set to go and launch publication once I figured it all out in a matter of hours.
I think the biggest challenge was figuring out just what should I say for my first post. Should I talk about the purpose of my blog? Or about who I am?
I think I went for a combination of both.
What started out as a online journal of sorts, turned into so much more. I wanted something to look back on in a years time and see just what kind of life I have lived in the last year. I wanted a written legacy of the good times and bad times. I wanted to see how I weathered storms and how I got through them still in one piece for the most part.
What I didn't expect was that there would be people out there, all over the world, who would browse the internet and stop at my blog. Not only stop there, but read what I had written. Why did what I write even make a difference to someone?
But it did.
They let me know.
In a comment.
In that one small box that appears at the bottom of each post we read, lies a window to share with the author anything you wish to say, good, bad or hopefully not ugly.
I was in heaven. Never before could one person imagine just what a comment could do to you personally.
People cared.
People related to you.
People shared something in common with you, both through your good times and bad ones.
People are good, no great when they inspire you with their thoughts, their time and their loving words that fit in a box that make your day.
As an author each day of what comes to mind to write about, I love to hear what it means to you, personally.
Did it impact you? Did it encourage you?
Did it make you laugh or cry?
Did it make a great memory of the past come fading back into the light as though it happened yesterday?
Not sure if this makes sense to any of you but I wanted to take this opportunity after blogging for almost a year now to let you know just how much comments mean to me personally. They are worth so much more than any amount of money you could ever give me.
They inspire me. They tell me you care, you've read what I have written and it's not even important whether you agree or disagree, it matters because you've taken the time to share with me your thoughts and feelings. For that alone, I love you one and all and would whole heartily share with you to take the time to let people know you've been by, you've read what they have written and how it's impacted you.
You just never know how your one comment can make a huge difference in how that person's day is going and how you just made them smile more than anything that could have happened that day.
Comments do that for bloggers. They are payment and rewards from you, the readers. Please take the time to comment today!
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