The Disappearance of a Fad

First I gotta say that blogging-for me- really has nothing to do with the topics I choose to write about and/or discuss . It has to do with the response. You could write about the most mundane things and still get loads of replies and comments...for instance, among previous topics of interest here on Caught In a Thought are sleepovers, pickles, Pride & Prejudice, sleeping position, Chinese basketball...and it goes on. Oh and the ever famous 26 calories. Most brilliant little bit of trivia to be discussed on this site and the most useful too (for all future dietary supplements) .

This has lead me to strain my brain for my favorite Caught In A Thought moments...but in reality, any time someone graces this stinkin' thing with a comment is the best day of my life! It reassures me and makes my heart go, "AHHHHHHHHHH", relieved that I am still able to establish communication with the outside world-a world that has left me silently typing to myself for 10 hours a day behind a computer screen in a little corner of my little office in my little apartment with only pajamas to cover me and coffee to sustain me.

But what sort of bloggers are out there? Well there are the trendy bloggers. The ones that got into it to be one of "the gang", who started and after three posts decide it's easier to browse than to build a blog. So the blog sits twiddlin' its thumbs while Trendy McBlogger is obliviously surfing the sea of information. Then there are the struggling poets of soulful sites that spout regular and endless expressions of a heart in pain which pioneers a heart suddenly fulfilled by requited love. And these are the sites that go on without any care if someone is reading them, they stand on their own self assertion.

We also have the Earnest Bloggerson who starts AND MAINTAINS his little piece of cyber heaven. But suddenly a fluke camel mauling incident while on safari in Chad occurs and we don't hear from him for months...by then the faithful advocates stop checking the site and when he recovers the use of his fingers to posts a pleading" SOS- I'm still here!!!", the site has already been mowed over on the information highway and forsaken in the cobweb corner of the things we forgot we knew. "Not a revival nor a rebirth, For final is what it finally became, And no amount of [typing] can bring What will never, never be the same"

And finally we have the addicts. The ones that swear they'll go on detox, they'll join a support group, they'll quit cold turkey... but who are they kiddin' really? They love it and they hate it. They love the rush of typing up a commentary, a story, a quiz at 12:49 am and the relentless infatuation with checking for new comments... but oh how they loath the pressure of mental blocks and that you can not leave it be forever!!

Therefore I propose, for us junkies, a program. 12 steps-since they're popular in this sorta thing-to overcoming Blog Obsession Disorder(BOD to the layman). So let's come up with what the steps are....