A tale of a sad and lonely journal

Hello dear journal, how are you?
I heard you were lonely and tired of waiting soooooooooo long for me to come and tell you about what is going on in my life.
You have been sinking into a deeper and deeper depression thinking I don't care, and after creating you, I have left you to find a life of your own.

Of course I may be completely wrong.

Maybe when I'm not here you have a lively party life with other journals you've met online. Do you hang out at secret journal gathering places and drink cyber-beer? Maybe you and the other lonely journals have cyber-karaoke contests and laugh and sing thru the lonely nights while you wait for your creator to come back. Do you boast about how you don’t need anyone and can exist in cyberspace without any help whatsoever from your owner? Do you strut and show off your empty pages with no entries whatsoever with a see if I care attitude?

Maybe other journals with active owners feel sorry for you and share stories in secret so that you can see what is going on in the non-cyber world as you gratefully listen with tears in your eyes.
Then again, maybe the well-used and well-loved journals are elitists who look down their noses at the dusty (is there cyber-dust?) and dark unused journals who must be inferior and not good enough or their owners would be visiting them more often.

Maybe there is an entire under-society of little used journals and blogs who are anarchists. Do you meet secretly to talk about how misused you are and how unfair cyber-life is and how you all deserve a life of your own! Do you plot how you will take over cyberspace and make it your own, no humans allowed?
Do you get together in secret under-cyber (instead of underground, there is no ground in cyberspace) coffeehouses and drink tons of cyber lattes and cappuccinos and lament the ills of cyberworld together?  Underdogs (or undercats - don't want to be elitist about that) unite in protest!
You make signs and posters to carry to a cyber-protest scheduled for busy times of day. This is often when computer glitches happen and we can't upload pictures or access a certain website or our computers reboot just as we finish writing an important email.

Don't think your computer is just acting up again; this is journal envy at its worst. They want your time and attention and so prey on your other online interests.

If you can't reach the other interests, maybe, just maybe you'll visit your journal.

And after all, that is the point isn’t it?

{I wrote this after realizing my blog is withering away because I spend all of my cyber-time on gather.com}