Thurs Thirty: Blogging Life Lessons

This week, I offer a special Thursday Thirty edition of the customery Tuesday Ten, featuring a souped up, biggie sized, thirty (count ‘em 30) LIFE LESSONS I’ve learned from blogging over the past year. Can you relate?

1. run-on sentences really aren’t so bad after all. don’t shoot me Mrs. Armstrong.
2. it’s polite to speak when spoken to (or commented upon, as the case may be)
3. many of life’s problems can be solved by a well placed </div> tag
4. the world is big. and small.
5. you really can have 6000 projects going on at the same time.
6. uniques and page views and google rankings are fruitless pursuits.
7. there is something so much “wronger” (to paraphrase Veggie Tales) about fruit left on the vine to rot as opposed to fruit left in the fridge. [where the vine = my brain and fruit = my ideas and the fridge = my ideas put out there in cyberspace where becoming stale and sour is somehow inevitable over time, but who cares… in my little analogy.
8. analogies can quickly go awry (Re: #7)
9. rules were made to be broken, and thereby creativity ensues.
10. I have a lot to say — no big surprise there.
11. other people have a lot to say, and it’s sometimes fun to listen (or read).
12. some things just aren’t worth saying
13. I so rarely write in complete sentences.
14. so what? (Re: #13)
15. you can and will make time for what matters to you.
16. words and pictures have power. use them wisely.
17. the accountability of knowing the world might weigh in on my opinion can be a good thing.
18. thinking and writing are still important, even if noone reads.
19. you speak (and write) from where you sit. that’s the only way it can work.
20. but, it’s ok to use your imagination. (Re: #19)
21. in fact, it’s my responsibility as a thinking world citizen to use my imagination. (Re: #19 and #20)
22. if I can’t look others in the (virtual) eye with mercy and grace with what I believe, I need to rethink.
23. networks, posts, twitter, facebook, stats, countries, issues and causes are all made of real people.
24. punctuation in or outside of quotation marks and parentheses will remain a conundrum and I’ll probably always first spell their “thier” and have to change it. I’ve learned to accept it.
25. I so incredibly don’t care anymore. (Re: #24)
26. but, I so incredibly care about almost everything else, and that’s ok. (Re: #25)
27. a little obsession never hurt anybody.
28. if kermit’s not happy, nobody’s happy. where kermit = my handy, highly mobile and generally congenial laptop.
29. if it matters to me, chances are it will matter to someone else out there.
30. because (despite all evidence to the contrary) people really aren’t that different. (Re: #28)