I am grateful.
I am grateful to all those online friends who are following my blog and posting comments to my posts, and to those who click “like” regularly too. There is a feeling of warmth when you see people reacting, commenting and liking your thoughts. I always say that sometimes the “muse” goes on leave for a while and you can’t think of anything to write about. You have written about your one remaining dog, and your cat and your garden and the blooms you are now enjoying. You have written about how it feels to be alone in your thoughts and how happy you are to have your family around. You have written about discovering new blogs and seeing those lovely places that they share.
It makes me smile.
It makes me smile to read the adventures and experiences of other bloggers, how they love sharing anything under the sun. It makes me smile to reach out and exchange thoughts with them. It makes me smile just being here. I have always said time and again that blogging has become a way of life. It has become part of the daily grind that we call life. When things get a little upsetting, I blog. When things get a little stressful, I blog too. When things make me happy, I share it in cyberspace. Our thoughts and actions define how we feel, how happy we are. Happiness comes naturally when we cultivate friendship in our own small way. It comes naturally when we interact with other people and make them smile too in the process. Little acts of kindness, some compassionate words to make one happy.
It gives meaning to my life.
Some of you won’t probably agree on this one. Blogging for me is now a habit I can’t break, one good habit to journey through. It’s been more than seven long years of blogging. It has somehow change my perspective, the way I see things through other bloggers’ eyes.
How is your blogging journey?
For one thing, I’m glad I’ve met you on cyberspace, Ma’m Arlene…
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Same here Ren. It’s always nice to read your thoughts, looking forward to more.
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I agree that blogging can become a big part of our lives, Arlene. And I also smile a lot, reading comments, and finding out what others are up to. As I always say; “Start a blog. It might not change your life, but then again, it just might.”
Best wishes, Pete.
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It has changed mine a little Pete. It is nice to gather one’s thoughts and make a post out of them, one’s own personal space in the blogging world.
Thanks Pete 🙂
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I agree, Arlene. I’ve met such lovely people through my blog and its led me to such interesting blogs as well! I enjoy your writing and perspective, very much!
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Thank you so much Kitty. Let’s keep on exchanging ideas through our blog posts.
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Unfortunately my blogging is stuck in the middle of jobs and daily chores. Still trying to figure out a balance to it. But that said it is comforting to visit my blogging friends most days.
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I enjoy reading blog posts from online friends too Patty and like you, I am not able to blog all the time much as I want to.
Thank you so much.
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We need a few more hours in our days don’t we!! I enjoy your posts when you do post. Still trying to figure out a new schedule for me. My job always interferes! Merry Christmas!
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Hi Patty, thank you. Merry Christmas to you too and to your family.
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I love it, Arlene, and am frequently delighted with the wonderful virtual relationships. The immense kindness of people all over the world gives me hope for peace 🙂
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Thank you Diana. Yes, I feel the same. I love meeting all of you lovely people here. This space is such a nice place to be always.
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I agree Arlene. I love blogging. It has changed the way I live and look at life. I have learned a lot from my blogging friends. I love to share places, projects and even things that don’t work for me on my blog. Thanks for the thanks, and thank you right back.
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You’re welcome and thank you too Kathy for commenting back. I love it when I see online friends posting lovely thoughts in cyberspace.
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It reminds me of pen pals that I had in grade school, but I don’t have to wait so long for a response! But I like the international aspect of blogging as I enjoyed pen pals overseas as a child.
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Oh, that’s nice Elizabeth. Yes, we are pen friends in cyberspace. I love how everyone interacts.
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Thanks too Tita Arlene for making our blogworld beautiful. Yours is an inspiring blog. I enjoy reading your posts. Yes i agree it’s a habit we can’t break….or should i say in a very politically incorrect way…..an addiction that is not worth stopping. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this.
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Maraming , maraming salamat for such inspiring comments. I love reading your posts too. Such talent. I wonder if I could ever write poems the way you do.
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You’re welcome. Thanks for your appreciation of my simple grade school style rhyming poems. 🙂
You’re a great writer, you can write poems. Yes, you can as long as you have a pen, oops, a keyboard i mean and a beautiful heart
Thanks Tita Arlene. Have a lovely thursday.
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Oy, grade school daw o. My poems don’t rhyme, I don’t know how to write one that rhymes. Thanks for the lovely chat Joel.
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Ganyan kasi sa grade school diba kailangan mag rhyme ang poem, lol…nung panahon ko..hehe, but ngayon super free verse na, in short Queber na ang drama…..
You’re welcome Tita,, got to go. see you soon.
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Thanks 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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I love your thinking Arlene! Your writing and ways of blogging are endearing. It’s really a joy following you.
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Thank you so much for your inspiring comments. it’s nice to see you here.
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I agree with you about blogging, Arlene. Blogging has made us better travelers as we’ve become much more observant of the details in places we visit so that we can describe them to others as well as more willing to go to new out-of-the-way places that we can share. It’s also brought us a wealth of online friends that we exchange ideas and thoughts with and has given us a chance to meet many of these friends face-to-face. Every time we get lazy and slack off on the work part of writing a post we soon realize what an important part of our lives blogging has become! Anita
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Hi Anita,
It’s nice to see you here. Yes, blogging has brought us many online friends and the exchange of thoughts and ideas are a welcome change. It is always nice to meet other people from all parts of the globe.
Thank you so much for your lovely comments and for dropping by.
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