matira matibay

Two years ago, blogging became quite the fad among my orgmates. One person started blogging nice essays and then another did the same thing then all of a sudden, blogs abounded! I've been blogging long before my friends discovered it but when all of them started their own blogs containing mostly essays, I became a copycat with regard to their style. You see everyone was writing essays with deep meaning and everyone was praising one another so I wanted to be praised myself. But I always had an issue with their "praises" that never really tried to provide constructive criticism and the "praises" that are pretty misguided (it seems that finding symbolism in the mundane, no matter how forced those symbolisms are, always impresses others). I tried my hand at writing essays with deep meaning but I was never any good at it. And since I had issues with the whole praising thing, I reverted to my old routine of writing about anything, even if what I am writing does not have any meaning.

But I was right in perceiving the whole blogging thing as a fad since one by one, those other bloggers stopped updating their sites. Even the most prolific of them before have stopped blogging. For some, I guess they were just really following the trend and when it stopped becoming the "it" thing to do, they stopped doing it. For some, life got in the way. I know one blogger who was actually updating his site quite often but when he graduated from college, his blogging days went kaput. Now, among my circle of close blogger friends, only two of us are left standing: me and KC. KC is the trend setter, the one who started blogging essays. But she hasn't been updating as often anymore since she is busy working. Me, I'm still updating quite often since it's the off season here in our company. But it's quite lonely that there are only two of us left. I have no other blogs to read and those other people stopped reading blogs when they stopped writing them. Talagang matira ang matibay... Or matira ang bored lagi. :-P