All Good Things Come To An End

Please consider this as my notice of termination.

As much as I have enjoyed writing my thoughts, waffling on about my dreams, and typing generally about, well, nothing in particular, I always knew that it wouldn’t last. There have been times when I couldn’t type fast enough to get the ideas down, and there were other times when the ideas were not flowing at all. This letter has been on my mind all day today, so it is one that I simply have to write as today’s post.

Blogging is a funny old game. One moment I’m embroiled in the life of one person, and in the next moment I’m in the mind of another. I’m happy for one person, concerned for another, and touched by another, just by reading their words on their blogs. Information is coming in from all angles, from every corner of the world. Fascinating facts about things I, and quite possibly thousands of others, have never heard of are being shared in very different and very entertaining ways. And then it ends. The blog stops for whatever reason.

Life has other plans for every single blogger on the planet – blogging isn’t a full time occupation in itself, so it stands to reason that blogs will, from time to time, be overlooked for more important issues that arise in the blogger’s life. The same can be said for me, although, up until now, I have always tried to put a couple of hours to one side just for this blog. And that was my choice. And, although I have just said it, I enjoy doing it. When something is not enjoyable, there is no point continuing doing it.

So, the reason for this letter of resignation.

One day, this blog will come to an end. Not a great revelation in the grand scheme of things compared to the vastness of the Universe, but I want to let everyone know that I intend to stop posting on this blog. I have some regular readers and visitors, who, although I don’t know in person, feel as though they, you, are my friends, and I feel it fitting to let you all know about this.

I’m not stopping blogging straight away, in fact, I’m hoping to continue blogging for as far as I can into the future. I am enjoying blogging at this present time, so I have no desire to stop doing so, but I feel obliged to my regular visitors to say a quick “Thank you” and a cheery “Farewell for now!”, just in case the day comes when I say to myself “That’s it, enough already! Time for the next phase.” and don’t post a word on my blog that day…

Throughout my last year of blogging, I have mentioned quite a lot of events, ‘people’, places, things and times that have had a particular resonance with me. Some of these topics haven’t reached their natural conclusions, and I feel it is only fair to finish their stories before ending or closing the blog. Of course, this may mean that other threads may be started over time too, but hopefully, everything will be nicely tied up by the final day of posting.

Everything happens for a reason. Being introduced to blogging allowed me to express myself in a way I have never been able to do so before. I have been able to write about my innermost thoughts and feelings without any fear of resentment, condemnation or ridicule, which is something I can not do in my real life. I can release thoughts into the universe that I would have otherwise have carried around with me, and allowed them to fester and blacken my very soul. I have a certain amount of freedom in blogging, whereas I feel kind of trapped in my real world.

So, visitors to my blog, readers of my words and friends from around the world, can I say once again thank you for taking the time to pop into my world, even if it is just to look at a picture, I appreciate your visit. For those who comment, I appreciate your visits all the more so (and I send you an extra special boost of Feel Good Positivity just for your visit!)

If I do stop posting soon, I’ll still be around, and visiting those blogs that I regularly visit. I don’t think that I’ll be stopping posting anytime soon, but being pre-warned is better than nothing.

As I said in the first line, please consider this as my notice of termination, but with an open-ended termination period.

Thank you for reading.

May 20, 2011

Background, Direction, Feel GOOD!, Publications, Time, Words

8 responses to “All Good Things Come To An End”

bex

May 21, 2011

oh Tom…i just don’t know what to say. do i need to tell you how much i’ve enjoyed visiting with you and getting to you know you? hearing about your interesting dreams and quests has always been an interesting moment in my day. i hope you already know these things.

when you do stop posting here, i hope you will still be around, visiting, commenting and staying with us in some way or another.

before you stop, let me say thank you – for all your words, your insights, your quests, your opinions and adventures, it is a pleasure.

for the time being, looking forward to your words until the day you decide no more…

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  May 21, 2011
  
  Thanks, Bex.
  
  I hope / think / know that that day is well into the future, but I had a strong urge to write something of this sort yesterday. And I have just realised that sounds quite grim, but I could see the paragraphs in my mind’s eye as clearly as visualising a favourite place.
  
  I’m really happy that you enjoy visiting, and I really am grateful for your doing so.
  
  Saying goodbye isn’t always an option, but at least I’ve said it now, and can get on with my waffling… that sounds cheery again, doesn’t it?
  
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penpusherpen

May 21, 2011

Sorry Sir Aquatom, notice not accepted. (Picture an envelope being torn in two.) .. You may feel as if in the future you will stop, just stop putting down your thought, random though they be, (I do too , poem wise and story wise, very, very random) but the need to do so will always be there, It’s there within me, I tried so many times to walk away, but I have a need to communicate this way, and I recognise a fellow ‘reacher outerer’ (no such word I know..so many red lines, even for the English spelling of recognise…..) 😉
I will read what you have wrote, written and shared for as long as you keep doing so, and that I believe is as long as you can still type and draw breath. so there!! … mind you, that presupposes that I haven’t died in the meantime. I will try not to, my hardest in fact. I have felt in the past I would like to die, and wished it on occasion so much that I tried to hold my breath, but I could never hold it more than a few seconds before I panicked. 😀 , I know I do say crazy things sometimes, but I think I’m quite sane, just a trifle confused sometimes, by life and it’s many ways of hurting you , seemingly to try and find out your strengths and weaknesses … I like to think this, as I would hate to think it’s all for nothing. um…lost the track somewhat, methinks, but you know what I’m trying to say… I hate goodbyes, so don’t even mention a chance of leaving, future wise or whatever, or I’ll hold my breath and you wouldn’t want that on your conscience now would ya? xPenx

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  May 21, 2011
  
  Ah, but, erm, Pen, it’s like… what if the internet went down, but permanently… that would be the end of everything. At least now, I’ve closed this blog (although probably years too early!) and managed to thank all of my visitors, and send some feel good vibes out into the world all in one post! There, that’s a good reason!
  I write my posts out of sequential order – time makes as much sense as my thoughts in this blog, so I’ve had the beginning and now the end, and now I just need to concentrate on the middle stuff.
  I haven’t the intention to finish posting anytime soon, but everything ends, and, as awful as it sounds, this blog will one day too.
  The signs will be clearly there when the end is nigh, and the signs are currently not even on the horizon!
  So, please don’t hold your breath, you go a funny red colour when you do. I am grateful for your visits and comments, and will be continuing to give you the opportunity to do so.
  Thank you for not accepting my notice and tearing up the envelope, Pen, and Sir Aquatom has many more tales of mystery yet to tell, but even in a world where time is all mixed up, there is only so much of it!
  
  This isn’t goodbye though!
  
  And I love the term reacher outerer…
  
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Trevor

May 22, 2011

It has taken me all day to formulate a reply and still I’m lost for words! To think that one day I will visit here and it will be gone is something I’m not going to contemplate, so like the good lady Pen, I forbid you to stop!

I can understand that there will be times that you don’t post, I should know all about that, but to think you would no longer be here entertaining or educating us is beyond thought.

Keep up the good work Tom, I may not visit every day, I may not comment on everything you write but rest assured I read every word.

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  May 23, 2011
  
  Thanks, Trevor.
  I’m not stopping anytime soon, but wanted to get the final post out of the way and all that… Now I can concentrate on whatever it is I’m doing (answers on a postcard, please!)
  No, I’m trying a few different ideas with my blog before it ends, and, there’s an unlimited amount of ideas around, so it is some time off yet. As well as my waffles, I’m posting the One Minute Rambles, and my 150 word posts as well now, and then I’ve got my quest and my dreams, so I have a fair bit to go on about at the moment.
  And thanks for using the terms ‘entertaining’ and ‘educating’ in the same breath without stifled laughter; and seriously, thanks for commenting! Like I said, I really appreciate it…
  
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Emily

Jun 16, 2011

awwwww, it would be sad to see you go. But, as you say, all good things must come to an end – so I’ll
try to see you other with a fond “farewell” and a cheerful wave! As Penpusher said, you are a fellow “reacher outerer” and I will always love reading your fantastic posts!!

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1. Tom (Aquatom1968)
  
  Jun 16, 2011
  
  Thank you very much, Emily.
  As you can see, I’m still here…! 😉
  
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