It has been 671 days since I posted my first blog. This will be my 423rd blog. In those 671 days there have been 50,012 visits to my blog. That is an average of 74.5 reads per day and 118.25 reads per post. (These are approximations.) My blog has been visited from people in over 15 different countries. The most accessed post has 464 reads.
Basically what I'm trying to get across is that this thing, this blog, has become more than I ever imagined. There were times it consumed my life. There were times it faded to the back of my mind. It has never left me though. Whether I posted two blogs a day or two blogs a month there has always been someone who accessed my site. Never once in the 671 days that I blogged have I had 0 reads.
This blog isn't to celebrate me getting to 50,000 reads, it's to thank you all for giving me an audience. No great author would be great if people didn't give them a chance. You've all taken a chance on me. Some of you have followed me for close to two years now while some of you have just found out about the blog recently. No matter how many blogs you've read I want to thank you.
I want to thank you for keeping me going, for giving me topics to blog about, for lashing out at me when you thought I was wrong, for comforting me when you thought I was hurt, and more than anything I want to thank you for allowing me into your life.
Whether you read the blog to mock me or stalk me, help me or hurt me, see me triumph or see me fall you have allowed a little part of me in.
In the end maybe 50,000 isn't just a number. Each view this blog gets is unique because every person who reads it is different. Different dynamics mixed with the different moods you are in when you read the blog. One of 50,000 is a loving mother, one is a lost friend, one is an enemy, and one might be a complete stranger. But each and every one counts.
Thank you all, all 50,000 of you, who gave me a reason to write, a reason to read, and a reason to live.
NP: One Year, Six Months- Yellowcard
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