Last night at a Halloween party, I had a quick discussion with Mbrotha’s friend Jay about the various rock concerts we’ve attended and which bands rocked and which ones didn’t. Naturally, I mentioned that 30STM is the cat’s pajamas when it comes to rock concerts (but not on Friday, November 5th. Sigh…) to which Jay replied, “I know, I’ve read your blog.”
Woo!
I know people read my blog as WordPress provides me with handy little stats regarding the traffic to my blog and from which sites said traffic originates. It displays lovely little graphs with information as to how many visitors I have and which posts they’re reading. (So far, Dear Jared, Shannon and Tomo, you kinda broke my heart is winning in the race for top-viewed post. And naturally, that’s the one they read…). But it doesn’t tell me who’s reading my blog, only the site they used to get there. So it’s pretty flipping AWESOME to hear it in person. Thanks, Jay!
Yesterday I wrote a post that differed from my usual posts, because it involved a topic that hits pretty close to home. Lately I’ve involved myself in a mission for self-acceptance. The other day I read an article that really bothered me (see my post entitled Outrage) and this started me thinking that I can’t remember the last time I heard of a global positivity movement and it made me want to start one. Now I’m a little obsessed. Today I researched ways to increase traffic to my blog so that way I can spread the word and maybe I can really get this thing going. Consequently, the following will make little sense to anyone but me:
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Much of the promotion of my blog required me to figure out exactly what this blog is about. I reviewed my previous posts because, initially, I’d hoped to simply use it as a platform for purging my brain of extraneous thoughts so I had a clean slate for writing. And naturally, it has evolved into more than that for me. A lot of my posts discuss my quest for self-acceptance and answers to that pesky little question of what to do with my life so I figured this was probably the most accurate description.
(You’d also not be surprised to learn that I promote the hell out of Thirty Seconds to Mars in many of my posts (shocking, I know…). I heart them (you don’t say…). And I figure this is the best platform for me to pester my friends and family into hearting them as well. Of course, if you’re looking for them to notice you so that someday you’ll be BFF’s with either Jared, Shannon, or Tomo, I don’t recommend writing a post detailing exactly the how’s and why’s of why you may be pissed at them for cancelling a show. Turns out? They notice that kind of thing and trust me when I say that being noticed for excessive awesomeness is definitely preferable vs. being noticed because of bad press. I imagine a retweet on Twitter by any one of the guys is ten different shades of awesome. Having them tweet directly to you and tell you YOU broke THEIR hearts?
Bittersweet. So very bittersweet…)
So far my experiment is a success. Thank you, Jenn, for posting your comment in response to Because I love deep fried oreos. I hope others will feel comfortable in following in your footsteps. I would LOVE to open up my Facebook page one morning and see my timeline filled with statuses from everyone I know and love stating why they love them. And if I can encourage someone I don’t know? Even better. If everyone everywhere took one day to state one reason why they are amazing?
That day would be the most AWESOME day in the history of days. It really really would.
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