It's Like Revisiting An Old Home

I've got a full week ahead of me and am excited to add blogging at MindSay to my To-Do list.

I'm going to get to bed now, but before I do I wanted to share a memory of blogging here within this extensive community. I'm not sure if anyone else does this but because webpages and online personalities don't have a physical space to occupy, I found myself building in my mind a map of important MindSay places and people. I guess it was a way to keep everything straight. Eventually, I put it down on paper which further carried my internal analogy of "this is my little corner of the internet". The people I knew best were closest to me. Those I got to know through other people or befriended around the same time were mapped together in cul-de-sacs and burroughs. As I met more and more people, my map grew. At some point, proximity to my "street" no longer indicated how good a friend was because the MindSay I visited and got to know kept growing.

I found the little hand-drawn map about a year ago. It made me smile and reminisce; recalling good people and interesting times. It amazed me to see how many people I met during my early blogging years. Some disappeared quickly after making a large impact on me. Other names surprised me with how early we had met.

Time is a funny thing.

My time away from this community feels like ages. At other times it's just a blinking memory. My time here felt like a lifetime. How can a lifetime feel like forever ago? It does and doesn't. It makes me stupid with contradictions.

I've missed a shit-ton of you, a lot. I'm also sad to see I can't come back to the way it was as this place isn't the same. I'm glad to be here for Reunion Week. I'm happy to have the place to meet up with those that've stuck it out or are revisiting ol' times.

Sometimes a good thing is a good thing for a short amount of time. Sometimes a time limit on valuable cargo makes it more precious. That' as it should be. For me, to try to hang on would have hurt the experience. But I'd never want to be locked away from it or deny anyone else the opportunity to have what I had.