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10,000th Post - Farewell
September 24th, 2013; 11:20PM
To start this off, I want to tell you a bit about myself and this blog.
My name is Chris, and I made this blog in the Summer of 2009, but have known about Tumblr since October of 2008. When I first made this blog, it was primarily written blogs about what was going on at the time, and when school started, it was an explanation of what happened. For the people who have been following me since then, they could tell. I honestly didn’t think that anyone read my posts because I didn’t think that anyone would care. But hearing from numerous people that it was fun to read at times really made me want to keep this blog going.
Once I reached around 500+ posts, I started to reblog posts, and that’s what this blog became. I didn’t write as much as I used to, since I started having less and less time to do so as school because tedious. I admit that I do kind of regret making the decision to start reblogging, because it just didn’t feel the same. One thing that made me decide to stop the posts was that many people started to follow the blog. i didn’t feel as open as I used to. Writing down personal things that could or could not offend people.
As years went by, managing this blog felt like an ever day task. I would come home and browse through to 25+ pages, and end the night reblogging what I thought was nice. Day in and day out, for nearly 3+ years, was what I did. I felt that I needed to do it. As I started gaining more followers through what I posted, I started to like the “attention” I was receiving. “____ has like your post.” “___ has reblogged your post.” It felt nice to be honest.
After a while, everything just seemed like a hassle. Missing one day would mean another half hour on here to catch up with whatever I missed. Sometimes even going through 80+ pages in one sitting just so I wouldn’t miss a thing. It became tiresome. I started to think back to when it wasn’t a task, but something that I actually enjoyed doing.
Blogging. Writing. Expressing myself through words. I realized that I missed what this blog was meant for. I didn’t start this so I could be noticed. To be criticized for whatever I wrote. To be scared of what people thought of what i wrote. I made this blog so that I could just be.. Me.
Which is why I’m deciding to get off this blog. No, not delete it or get rid of everything. But to move to another more private blog where I can actually go back to what I loved doing years ago. There are way too many memories on here that I couldn’t bare to see go. From my written blogs about my first year in high school, to my private blogs that I wouldn’t dare show to anyone, to the ever changing reblogs that portray my mood swings through these past couple years. I know I’m going to miss seeing the random posts that would make me smile when I’m down. Or the posts that really make me think about certain things. But things just aren’t the same anymore.
To those of you who have stuck around to reading all of this, thank you for your time. And to my followers, whether you started following me last month, to when I first started, thank you for all these memories. And lastly I wan’t to say thank you for this blog that has given me countless hours of entertainment, excitement, dread, and even tears.
If you do wish to continue following me, please go ahead and do so, but I will be moving onto a different blog. If you wish to still follow me there, send me a message and I will send you the link, no questions asked. Again, thank you for everything.
Farewell.
September 24th, 2013; 11:50PM
