Words sometimes elude me when I try to convey feelings and sentiments.
It's not so much that I lack the vocabulary, syntax or loquaciousness to do so (because you readers have had your fair share of my circumlocution *embarrassed chuckle*). It's more of a "The words seem pale and inadequate" scenario. They fail to deliver the full impact of the emotion and their intent seems impotent at best! I most often try to make up for this idiosyncrasy by just saying a few words and using some form of (socially accepted) action to buttress the situation. This, more often than not, leaves me feeling disingenuous, insincere, mendacious and comes off as awkward, forced and rehearsed. I hope that the above reality remains an internal stricture that doesn't permeate outward into existence because it would pain me to know that others see the situation the same as I do. *shudders to think*
So for this post, I have decided to forgo the theatrics and just use my words.
Dearest Reader,
YOU HAVE MY UNABATED GRATITUDE!!!
I started this blog, about 4 years ago, as an avenue to vent some of my thoughts and remedy my "recluse" behaviour as observed by my lovely wife. (I disagreed with her findings [because how dare she refer to me as recluse] and set out to prove her wrong) Thus, The Antiguan Gamer Blog was born but I also tried it out as a social experiment. I wanted to see what people would think about me (and my thoughts and my writing and my gamer persona [Enter T.A.G -The Antiguan Gamer]). Would other like-minded individuals *coughs* Gamers and Geeks *coughs* gravitate to this? Would anyone really read this (drivel)? And more importantly, would they ever speak to me again afterwards?
Long story short, things worked out (for the best?) and most of the people who read the blog still read most of the posts (especially after I ask them a few times). Plus, most times, most people who know me irl mostly still talk to me (when the need arises) and that's a positive in my book! *big goofy smile*
Dearest Reader,
YOU HAVE MY UNFAILING GRATITUDE!!!
To put it simply, I just want to say THANK YOU for taking the time out of your busy schedule to patronize me. It's thanks to you that I have come so far and it's because of you that I continue. There have been a few times over the course of this journey that I have felt like my efforts were in vain (specifically, when I noticed a sharp decrease in views per post over the last 6 months) but I took this as constructive criticism and decided to make a few changes to the blog and posting schedule. Things have gotten slightly better but it isn't where I want it to be.
That, however, won't stop me from putting out content (I have quite a few drafts saved up) and I promise to provide you readers with material as long as you keep coming to view it. I'll stop here, because I think I've said all I needed to say and i think you have definitely gotten it by now.
But, just in case you haven't...
Dearest Reader,
YOU HAVE MY UNVARYING GRATITUDE!!!
It's not so much that I lack the vocabulary, syntax or loquaciousness to do so (because you readers have had your fair share of my circumlocution *embarrassed chuckle*). It's more of a "The words seem pale and inadequate" scenario. They fail to deliver the full impact of the emotion and their intent seems impotent at best! I most often try to make up for this idiosyncrasy by just saying a few words and using some form of (socially accepted) action to buttress the situation. This, more often than not, leaves me feeling disingenuous, insincere, mendacious and comes off as awkward, forced and rehearsed. I hope that the above reality remains an internal stricture that doesn't permeate outward into existence because it would pain me to know that others see the situation the same as I do. *shudders to think*
So for this post, I have decided to forgo the theatrics and just use my words.
Dearest Reader,
YOU HAVE MY UNABATED GRATITUDE!!!
I started this blog, about 4 years ago, as an avenue to vent some of my thoughts and remedy my "recluse" behaviour as observed by my lovely wife. (I disagreed with her findings [because how dare she refer to me as recluse] and set out to prove her wrong) Thus, The Antiguan Gamer Blog was born but I also tried it out as a social experiment. I wanted to see what people would think about me (and my thoughts and my writing and my gamer persona [Enter T.A.G -The Antiguan Gamer]). Would other like-minded individuals *coughs* Gamers and Geeks *coughs* gravitate to this? Would anyone really read this (drivel)? And more importantly, would they ever speak to me again afterwards?
Long story short, things worked out (for the best?) and most of the people who read the blog still read most of the posts (especially after I ask them a few times). Plus, most times, most people who know me irl mostly still talk to me (when the need arises) and that's a positive in my book! *big goofy smile*
Dearest Reader,
YOU HAVE MY UNFAILING GRATITUDE!!!
To put it simply, I just want to say THANK YOU for taking the time out of your busy schedule to patronize me. It's thanks to you that I have come so far and it's because of you that I continue. There have been a few times over the course of this journey that I have felt like my efforts were in vain (specifically, when I noticed a sharp decrease in views per post over the last 6 months) but I took this as constructive criticism and decided to make a few changes to the blog and posting schedule. Things have gotten slightly better but it isn't where I want it to be.
That, however, won't stop me from putting out content (I have quite a few drafts saved up) and I promise to provide you readers with material as long as you keep coming to view it. I'll stop here, because I think I've said all I needed to say and i think you have definitely gotten it by now.
But, just in case you haven't...
Dearest Reader,
YOU HAVE MY UNVARYING GRATITUDE!!!
