Ten by Fifty

This is my five hundredth post!

With Talestream, I’ve posted a few more than 500 times, and with comments here and on other blogs, I suppose the count could be pushed up slightly higher, but this is my official 500th post! Go me!

So, to celebrate this bluey-greenish milestone, I have decided to write about the things that I have learned about myself since starting this blog. And, I’ll pop in a fact or two about the number 500 while I’m at it, such as 500 nm being the wavelength between the colours blue and green in the visible spectrum. (Well, you may get the question in a trivia quiz at some time!)

Now, on to a topic close to my heart… Me! Me! Me me me!

I can persevere when I want to. I have done so with this blog. I have enjoyed writing something most days, because there have been some days when I didn’t post, but on the whole I think I have done OK.
When I first started blogging, I felt as though I was just typing away to myself. It felt good to be able to put my thoughts down somewhere different, and the early days of my blog were mostly posts of my likes and dislikes, my background and other random thoughts that occurred to me. Pretty much the same as today, although I think today’s posts are ever so slightly more random.

I have great dreams. I’ve always known that I’ve had great dreams, but by writing about them in the blog, I have been able to remember them more clearly. OK, they may not make any sense, but they were good all the same!

I have multiple personalities. In a good way – I hasten to add! – if it can be a good way – I add as an afterthought! – but I like it – I feel the need to add this too! I’ve been able to name some of these inner aspects of myself, and they have grown into ‘characters’ of their own right. Bernard and Fred off on their mission, Fingers getting the blame for typing things in an inventive style, Tom the Geek who crops up in an emergency… and who else? I know there are more there who will reveal themselves, possibly within the next five hundred posts.

A monkey is a slang term for five hundred pounds.

I like writing rhymes. I couldn’t really call my nonsense rhymes poems, as I feel this is an insult to those who write great poetry, but I enjoy it never the less. This blog is about everything really,and my take on it. Sometimes, I have to express my thoughts in a different way, and the rhymes help me to do that. I’m thinking of adding some of my doodles to the blog soon as well. I could use the term artwork, but I’ve decided to use the same train of thought as with the rhymes above.

The five hundredth word is this. Not very impressive I know, but this is my five hundredth word in my five hundredth post. This can sometimes be very significant…

I enjoy ‘meeting’ fellow bloggers. I’ve found some very interesting blogs along my short journey, and ‘got to know’ some very interesting people behind the blogs. OK, I haven’t met anyone in person, but I feel as though I know them. When I read their words, I read them in their voices… I can’t explain this in any other way, but I feel as though the posts are being read aloud by the person whose blog it is (Perhaps these voices belong to some of those other inner personalities of mine, trying to make themselves known this way). I couldn’t have written five hundred posts without the posts I’ve read on these blogs, and the comments I have received to my posts along the way. And to all you bloggers (and other readers who visit here) I’d like to say a big thank you just for popping by.. I really appreciate it.

I’m happy with this blog. I’m happy with my thoughts. I’m happy with the journey I am on. I feel good. I’ve probably written those last three words possibly a thousand times up to now, but a daily affirmation does wonders. I’ll say it again: I FEEL GOOD!

I’ve more than likely learned a lot more about myself apart from the five topics mentioned above. I’m still trying to solve my 1642 mystery, and loving the quest, for one. I’ll add to this list of lessons learned in my one thousandth post!

And look… Seven, seven, seven.