Yes, I know you must think blogging to be a glitzy hollywood type of thing. Your name all over the internet and people clamoring for the opportunity to shake your hand or even to accidentally see you at a local restaurant say: "there he is!".
But I've got news for you. This blogging business is hard, lonely work. It takes you away from other things you love because it takes a long time to write these posts. Because I work full time, I blog into the wee hours with nothing but my Powerbook screen to light the way.
So every once in a while you get a comment on your blog. Your eyes light up. You envision that you are just days away from the moment when your wife calls from downstairs "Honey, Anderson Cooper is on the phone again." And you think to yourself, "that guy just doesn't give up!"
I got an e-mail tonight from a reader of this blog who said he really liked it. It made him smile. I wrote him back and said. "Thank you, now I'm smiling". Now before you get all choked up and start dripping tears onto your laptop, realize that most of us who blog don't get 100,000 hits per day like the big shot "A list" bloggers out there. In fact, many blogs receive less than a few hundred page views a day or even per week. Believe me when I tell you that it means something to hear your feedback - even if you don't smile each time you read a post here at Quixoting.
As many of you know, I write this blog as well as the other one, because I absolutely love doing it. Sure, it is disappointing when there are fewer people reading the posts. Some days it can bum you out a bit. But I keep roaring back.
One of the other things the reader said was that he liked Quixoting as a verb. I agree (although the trademark office may not agree with us, so let's keep that between us, OK?).
For me, Quixoting is a way of life, a way of thinking and a way of defining my creative self. To use it in bumper sticker language:
I'd rather be Quixoting™.
If you've found a home here, tell a friend. I'll send them a free bumper sticker!
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