Never has this quote been more true for me.
I fired up the laptop this morning to write a blog post, and made the mistake of reading lots of other peoples posts before I'd even thought about starting to write mine. After missing a few days due to 'stuff', I scrolled back and read through lots of posts to catch up, as I always do.
I shouldn't have done it. Apart from a few bright lights it was such a downer.
The world is full of such negativity at the moment, and over the past year or so as well as being shown all over social media, television and newspapers it has silently, insidiously been slipping itself into blogland.
This space used to be so different. I understand some of it, but not all of it.
My first thought was to completely discontinue my blog, and delete it all entirely.
Luckily I had a think, over a coffee and a bowl of chips in Booths café with Alan, and on getting home and sitting at the computer I came to the conclusion that I will alter what I post about, change what I do and hopefully, in doing so, make sure that I am making no contribution to the steady decline in blogland.
It might just be me, hey it probably is.
Please don't worry about stuff, but I'm taking time and space to change things up, work things out and do what's right in my mind for me. If you've noticed this trend towards the negative let me know, if I'm the only one ... let me know that too.
In the meantime I will be here but differently.
If you don't like the way that I change things up ... and I don't mind at all if you don't ... I'll be leaving all the other blogs on my sidebar for you to hop over to as usual. I can see from my stats that my blog is used as a jumping off point to lots of other people's and I would hate you to lose the links.
Sue xx