Signing Off

A lot of bloggers will tell you: “Hello! I’m still here. I haven’t forgotten about you, I’m still updating this blog!”

Well – I am and I haven’t, but I’m not.

I took the blog offline a couple of weeks ago and it seems like my reasoning didn’t go out on the feed as planned, so if anyone is reading this I’d like to explain why I’m no longer updating This Is This.

Having a blog is a great creative outlet and that’s what the internet is all about. The downside is that after nearly seven years, I grew increasingly uncomfortable with it looking like I thought my opinions mattered so much that I had to share them. And you know me and downsides; sometimes it feels like I’m surrounded by them. Geology says that should mean I’m sitting on top of a hill, but that’s not how it felt.

I’m keeping this blog online because there are sponsors who have paid to have placements on here, and you might want to read the archives. I may return to it one day. I liked being read and I enjoyed the thought of people waiting for an update here the way I do with many excellent blogs. What I didn’t like is being more self-absorbed than I wanted to be and the thought that there are people out there who would say this an extension of my whole personality rather than one facet of it to which I held up a magnifying glass every once in a while.

Most of all, though, I just grew bored of my own opinions and if blogging has taught me anything, it’s that I’m never alone in what I’m feeling.

Apologies to the genuinely lovely people out there with whom I shared a lot and felt a genuine and warm connection, but my blogging days are over for the forseeable future.

Love,

Cliff