Happy 10000th Day!!

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Hmm. You’d think I’d be happy after reaching my 10,000th hit.

Well, now you probably don’t think that, because I just sort of gave away the fact that I’m not. I mean, I’m not disturbed because I have 10,000 hits, but I’m disturbed by a lesson I have learned throughout my 137 posts in the last five months (Yes I counted).

And here it is: 85% of the people that read this post will not comment on it, and 75% of you will not care about it in the least, meaning you will completely forget about it in an hour. But this should be expected, after all, I’m me. So what’s the big deal? The big deal is the reason that you won’t comment or care (besides the fact that I wrote it). And that is simply this: lack of controversy. To quote Nathan, “Comments or peace Ansen??”

It is the sad unfortunate truth – the posts that get the most attention are the ones that stir up peoples’ emotions and make them angry, defensive, or some other passion that leads to the dark side of the force. Mmmm. Entrap you it will.

After a couple rounds with this malevolent activity, I have taken a course aiming at neutrality and peacefulness. But it seems that all I have accomplished is lots of boringness – such as me making up stupid words. Like boringness. Or bingdernshadoppers.

So tonight I found myself in a bit of a spot. After all, there are plenty of things I could talk about (senior skip day and Abe’s spit bubbles to name a couple) that would make plenty of people angry at me. And then they’d comment! But I recieved some wise counsel from one of my fellow first-generation bloggers (the bubble spitter himself).

“You don’t want everyone to hate you,” he said. “That wouldn’t be so cool.”

And then it hit me like a gallon of cow dung inside of a gallon-sized carton of milk.

“You’re right! I don’t!” I cried. “That would not be so cool!”

And so I, although somewhat depressed, smile softly to myself as I hum a Yellowcard tune and pound away tirelessly on my keyboard. Of course I must continue. Of course I must show kindness. And of course! I think we have some chiminychangas in the freezer that I should eat. Now that’s better than a bunch of comments anyday.

Happy 10000th Day!!

(By the way, it’s times like these when I’m thankful for that “Recover Post” thing. I got a “page cannot be displayed” error just now, and ohhh man I would’ve said some really controversial things if I’d lost this post.)