As I was going through my reader, half filled with either blogging or finance tips, half filled with stories from slackers like me, I came across a posting My Comment Policy which changed the way I look at this whole blogging world and everything in it.

I write what I want, what comes up, what comes out, and to no one in particular. However, it is my hope that what I do read will be written, and being shy in commenting has not gotten me much traffic. On occasion, this bothers me, especially as I see others’ success come in droves. It could also do with the ‘I go to bed at 9, while they stay up till 2′ sleep schedules.

My main partner in crime in this world tells me relentlessly how “it’s all about content, baby,” and I feel like in that area I can hold my own. My god, I’d better, an English major not being able to write? O the travesty that would be!

However, reading Chris’s policy on his blog, keeping in mind first and foremost that it is HIS and he can do damn well with whatever he wants, was something I needed to hear today. True, Chris has hundreds of readers and I’m still hoping for maybe one someday, but it was a good reminder that the moment I start to play to an audience in hopes of getting people to like (and link) to me is the moment that I lose why I started this in the first place-as a place where I can rid my mind of some thoughts and stories of my life today and my former genX glory. Until next time…