So today marks my three year blogiversary/blogday.  It was three years ago in a severe depression and suffering from acute writer’s block that I wrote this post while watching the colored lines of the ill and injured scroll past my eyes in the communications center I had been put out to pasture in.  Since then, I have both changed and been changed. 

The early days were really just about finding the time to write something… anything to propel me away from what and who I was.  It tended to be alot of drama… but it was therapeutic for both my mind and my fingers as I slowly once again developed a steady habit that transformed into a near addiction of writing.  As luck would have it, the addiction was not just to writing… but to blogging specifically.

Then there were the jaded months where I unabashedly ripped everything and everyone that annoyed me to shreds.  Of course, throughout I have always had these meandering long thought out philosophical posts about things that don’t even necessarily matter anymore.  Long posts seemed to become my specialty in an atmosphere of quicker is better.  Still, I plodded along my course and even trying to push 140 characters to new limits.

Evolution, however, is not always painless.  I would be remiss to not mention the day where I was changed unwillingly.  This lead to a time of more self reflection and examination of the choices I have made in my life and using this blog as both good cheap therapy and as a way to remember good times and congregate with like minded good people.  Which brings me to the present day, but which of my Ages of Blogging it is will still be determined over what I hope to be at least another three years.

If blog posts were bricks… I would have one hell of a long road traveled upon.

The one constant through it all has been my philosophical ideals of the sanctity of the personal blog.  I have been referred to directly and indirectly as a “purist” for what some consider as draconian views on the evils of attempting to earn money from a personal blog.  I have been criticized for my belief in blogger transparency, particularly when dealing with product review blogs such as those ”Mommy Blogger Review Blogs” that seem to be popping up all over the blogosphere.  My views have been minimalized by others who cite my lower subscriber count or lower comment count in comparison to their own blogs as evidence that my ideals and beliefs are not beneficial to personal bloggers.  Because subscriber counts and comments (while nice and truth be told a bit of an ego boost) is not what blogging is about to me, I have been considered a “blog snob”.  In all fairness, my detractors on those issues are probably correct in their perception from a perspective other than my own.

No apologies.  No regrets.  I’ve blogged here for three years with my personal ideals and philosophical beliefs intact.  I do not regret posting anything and have no apologies to make.  I have grown.  I have evolved.  I have changed and been changed.  Yet all of it is here to visually see for anyone interested in truly looking… and that is why today is as sweet as it is.  With the exception of a few name changes for anonymity’s sake, I have been as honest and transparent here as I possibly can.  This blog is truly an embodiment of my person and as a bonus, a testament to my growth.  In my mind there can be no greater reward for a true personal blogger.

You may now heap abundant testimony to my omnipotence or remind me of my true insignificance in the grand scheme of things.  While I prefer the former, if you truly feel the latter than go right ahead because whereas I would be doing it for you, since it is all about you… today I’m doing it for me, because it’s all about me.