It was 18 days yesterday since I published my last blog. 18 days of breaking the promise that I made to myself sometime ago to publish a blog every single day.
So I guess this is an apology to the people who read it daily (yes believe it or not there are a few and the messages I received after I’d stopped showed that that was the case)
I stopped in the middle of my sabbatical period to give my self aproper and uninterrupted rest from all that stuff and in response to a conversation with my wife, Alison about how it was not ok for me to question other people’s addiction to social media likes yet chase my own version of likes through writing a blog.
The truth is that, that 18 days (I appreciate that is not a long time to be away) was a wonderful, peaceful and contented time as was the rest of my time away from work but I missed the blog a lot because it is cathartic and it acts in a way as therapy for me. There is of course an element of narcissism – ‘look at me’ and ‘aren’t I great?!’ and it would be wrong for me to say that I don’t get excited or a rush of dopamine to the centre of my brain when people comment or compliment me on the blog; this Christmas I even had a present from someone for writing the blog. But the truth is that I love it and I’m very proud of it and it’s something I want to continue to do, at least for the time that i’m continuing to work because I feel like I have a duty to observe and report and because I’ve started and so I should finish.
I see so many things that I think we could do better. I see so many ways that I think we could be happier. I see so many habits and behaviours that I think are just a mistake that we have fallen into and I think it’s important that I report and it’s important for me to feel like I have done that.
So here it is… it’s back again through the email channels for you to read at your leisure. Over the next little while it will be coming off my personal Facebook page because my personal Facebook page will be ceasing to exist apart from perhaps 20 people in my family and close friends. I will write about why I’m doing that and the benefits to me in doing that in due course.
The blog will transfer to The Campbell Academy Facebook page for people to get it and it will still run on a robotic Twitter feed where nothing else goes on for people that find that means of access easy.
For everyone else though it’s best if you sign up to get it via email as you can reply directly to that or you can comment on the web version of the blog. It would be lovely to create some more interaction, comments and discussion about the things that I write and report about.
Consider this an encore - because one or two people stood up and clapped the guy came back out on to stage for an unspecified period of time. I broke a promise to myself to write a blog every day and I didn’t but now I’ve got that monkey off my back. It’s not the first promise to myself that I’ve broken by a long way and it won’t be the last. I’ll continue to try my best.
It’s nice to be back.
Blog Post Number - 1189
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