A Couple Thousand Later

Wow, 2,000 views?

Seriously?

Well, as you all can see, it appears that Catch-22 has reached the double millennial mark. 2,000 and some change. All I can really say is, well, wow. When I embarked on this writing journey nearly a year and a half ago, I would have never imagined that others would take such great notice to what I only wanted to be a place where I could write my thoughts and findings. I mean, it's just what I love to do. The fact that others truly enjoy reading what I do, that's a really humbling feeling. It seems like just last week I was thanking my blog readers for getting me up to (what was at the time) a surprising 1,000 views. My blog just seemed to take off around then, I get about 50 views every blog now, and that's really something that I never anticipated. So, before I start sounding like I'm rambling (which I'm afraid I'm too late), allow me to get to the point.

Thank you. Yeah, you.

Without people like you, I wouldn't have felt a lot of the great feelings I do to this day. It makes me so happy when people come up to me and mention my blog, or say it was really inspiring to them and it was just what they needed, or even just saying that it's written well. Little things like that, it really means a lot. Lately, my blog has been going to places I never thought it would. I mean, I had no idea, but my blog was even briefly mentioned in the newspaper. Not only that, the author of that article even listed me under her favorite blogs on her own website. Being recognized by a journalist as such was one of the coolest things, and I didn't even know about it until a couple weeks ago. It makes me wonder how far this blog may actually go.

But I have to remember my roots.

It's just crazy to think how I started 2,000 views ago. Just posting findings of my life, things I found peculiar in order to reach my own enlightenment. Hell, that's what the caption under my blog name says. This blog still is my pursuit to find the meaning of life. I feel as if every day I become closer and closer to actually discovering this beautiful truth. Through help of supporters like yourself, by the tribulations I face that make me become stronger as a result, it's remarkable the things I have learned simply by sitting down on a Sunday evening and pondering "What have I learned this week?" All I know is that there is much more to come in my discovery. I'm closing in on my findings, and waiting for the one day where that enlightenment I long for so desperately is achieved.

Here's to another 2,000.