I’ve seen a lot of people lately asking everyone to stop posting. “I can’t keep up,” they cry. And the truth is, I can’t either. But instead of asking everyone else to stop blogging, or feeling the intense made-up pressure that I’m not blogging enough, or not commenting enough, or not iNetworkWhoring enough, I have a solution.

Try to describe the feeling of blogging responsibility to a non-blogger and you sound like a putz. “You see,” you’ll explain, “there are people that I don’t know who may or may not be reading my website and who may or may not be waiting for me to post. And by god!” you’ll exclaim, “I can’t make them wait!” Maybe you start getting a few comments to justify your feelings. “See? They.. all 12 of them .. like me!” Then you become addicted, fall off the face of the planet and forget to brush your teeh because ohmygod there are people in your computer that call for you at night, long for you to write, think you are witty and funny! You can’t let them down!

Until one day you do.

One day you’re not so haha funny. You’re not feeling “on”. You’re running errands, see something funny and find out it really was more of a “you had to be there” kind of story. Because come on, they can’t all be hits, can they? But you feel like a failure because your traffic starts to lag. There are only six comments when there usually is twelve. Where are those other six bloggers?

You want to know where those other six bloggers are? Running errands. Not posting because they, too, aren’t feeling “on” and have other obligations. But suddenly you realize you are now evolving in to the very person you tried so hard to impress. You realize this is bazaar, unreal, and perhaps? Dare you say it out loud for fear of hurting your own website’s feelings… a waste of time? {{ Gasp }}

After a lot of soul searching, you realize it’s not a waste of time but it can be a time waster. So (and this is where the you become I, except for the record, it always has been) you decide to join a revolution of sorts. A way of bringing it back to the beginning. You vow to blog for yourself, to post when you want to and to not feel guilt if you can not comment on other’s sites.

Because let’s face it; There’s a good chance everyone else is thinking the same thing and that’s what a community is all about, right? Understanding? Reaching out? Moving forward?

So join this community and find others who understand. There’s life to live out there, y’all. One forgotten blog post at a time.