I wish I was more dedicated
One of the reasons I chose Bear for blogging about is the devotion the creator, Herman Martinus, has for the product. My product is my garden, as he puts it.
For the same reason, I admire bloggers like Jason Kottke and Seth Godin. They started blogging many years ago and have continued ever since. Dedication.
I've lost count of how many blogs I've started and shut down. The same goes for the blogging platforms I have used over the years.
This blog is relatively new and has managed to survive so far (knock on wood1). But there is never a full week that goes by without me, at some point, thinking about shutting it down.
I wish I could decide to keep this blog alive. I wish I could say to myself, "I blog at Bear under the domain birming.com — and so it will continue". I wish I was more dedicated.
In Sweden the expression goes “Pepper, pepper, touch wood”. The original superstition origin is the same, though: to ward off evil spirits.↩