(My last thread on TBD, before the site closed on 7/13/2009)
Whenever I move my domicile, the first steps of packing are always quick and easy: dump all of the things I don’t need daily into a box, tape it up, slap a label on it, and put it in pile with the rest of the boxes. It’s a mechanical process and most of it goes very quickly.
But there are always a few odds and ends that don’t seem like there’s any box of them to go into, or that I feel I need to have with me. The things that never get packed, because they’re not really part of my belongings–they’re part of me.
The compost of notes on top of my dresser. The knick-knacks on my desk. The curios on the mantle. The stuff that can’t be replaced.
They’re all small things. Their physical sum doesn’t fill a packing box, but their meaning fills my life.
I have a number of small things like that here, but I can’t pack them. TBD is an organic part of them. They’ll have to stay. But first, I rifle through them one more time.
You know how this game is played–I’ll show you mine, and then you show me yours. I know you have some. We all do. Small things we want to say.
I’ll go first.
= = = =
First, I never knew that I could write things that people would find entertaining. Informative, sure–at my day job, I write dry, informative things all day. But I never had a clue that I could write things that people could actually enjoy reading. Not even an inkling.
But now I do have an inkling. I can string words together in a way that people enjoy reading, and I enjoy doing it.
I love it when I find something new that I enjoy doing. Isn’t it a wonderful feeling?
So, if you ever wrote to me telling me that you enjoyed what I wrote, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
And if you were just bullshitting me, I will thank you from beneath the bottom of my heart to keep it to yourself.
= = = =
I’m going to miss my pile of kudos.
Positive feedback–what a breath of fresh air!
I live in a world of negative feedback. I suspect that I am not alone. What a pleasant thing it is to have a way for someone to tell you that you’ve done something that they appreciate.
