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Ok. I am the kind who blogs for fun. You know, putting words, thoughts, sentences together, producing paragraphs. Making (some) sense. Or not. Creating a post. Adorning it with some wonderful pictures I’ve been saving forever for my personal inspiration. It’s fun! Have you tried it? Hehe! However the most fun comes from the feedback I get of those small hobby like creations. (Dear, WordPress, I’m forever grateful for that LIKE button.) I always go kind of:
Everyone who comments here have been so wonderful throughout all of those times! You rock, people! Thank you!
However recently, missing some action in my comment sections, I’ve checked my stats (I rarely do) and notice quite a number of people who DO drop by this site. 
This leaves me to speculate about what are people thinking as they pass through these posts. Here are my thoughts about why they don’t leave a comment.
Leave me a comment. PLEASE!. If it’s easier just enter a number.
1. It was such a wonderful post that I don’t have anything to add.
2. I have a policy never to comment.
3. I fell asleep.
4. I want to remain anonymous.
5. I don’t want to associate with people/blogs who have/had eating disorders. You, maniac!
6. I don’t comprehend what you are saying/asking.
7. I don’t have anything to say.
8. It’s just too much trouble.
9. What’s a comment?
10. The post sucked!
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Thx!
I feel like a bit of a stalker to be honest, nevertheless i find your blog entertaining and fun 🙂
Phew..
Thanks for stalking! This this stupidest sentence I’ve ever written. (I guess) 😀
Such a cute post! I read some stats once that for every 10-15 views you get, you will get one comment. Usually I don’t comment because I like to read, then go away and digest the article, before coming back to comment. Unfortunately, sometimes between “digesting” and commenting, I get distracted and busy with something else 🙂 I also find it harder to comment on more serious posts sometimes because I want to share a story that relates to the original post but then I feel like I’m making someone else’s blog all about me so I decide it’s better if I stay quiet 🙂 But I always read! xo.
Gosh, Nataly, I’m glad you distract yourself with something else and not falling asleep – my bf does and I don’t blame him. I do find my blog like a never-ending lullaby. Always love your considerate comments!
xo
Dear Greta,
I am reading your blog since your “Thin people are miserable too”-post in July. Discovering your blog was quite an accident, but I’m so thankful I hit it. Your posts are my daily inspiration. Since I suffer from an ED, too, your posts give me strength – somehow. I can’t really describe the feeling coming up in me when I read a new post from you. But it’s close to that “unpacking a present”-feeling I have on Christmas Eve. Now I have to admit the truth: I’m way too lazy to make comments – and since I’m not a native English speaker, I always think: No way, no one will care about you writing something stupid, this would just destroy the wonderful post…So writing these sentences, I just wanted you to know: Yes, it’s me. I read your blog. And I love it! 🙂
Oh, sweetheart, my English is probably worse than yours. And I DO too sometimes find it difficult to comprehend/comment on some really awesome blogs. The Edo thing is agonizing. This sucks million times more than my silly whining about some comments. I’m glad you find some relief reading my puzzled thoughts. I’m always here for you.
xo
Hi Greta dear!
Hope you are doing good!
It is always a pleasure to visit here. And today I have a good reason.
To share an award. To tell you how much I admire your work.
Its waiting here for you,
http://25of8.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/being-awarded/
Enjoy! Cheers! 🙂
-Asha
Woohoo!
My first Christmas present from the most lovely and talented Asha!
I’m so excited and thankful!
And honored to accept.
Though I’ve had my blog for a little over a year and had to post in it every day, I very honestly simply fell by the wayside replying on others’. I often forgot to update my own and would have to play catch up, writing 3, 4, sometimes 7 days worth of blog entries that I simply did not have time to do before. Because of this, reading or commenting properly on the blogs I followed just never happened. I’d just run out of time. But now that my year is up and my blog format is changing, I have time to read and comment since I don’t absolutely have to update every single day.
I promise to be more active here. ^_^
Oh, please feel free to come back or not dear. (But, please do) Life is not a blog. And I’m so glad yours is especially exciting. I’m much honored to meet such an interesting lady. I know what you mean by running out of time. I do too. Or sometimes I seem to be left with so much more of it I compose silly post like this one.
I am honored that you think I am interesting! Haha! I am sorry that you only recently discovered I existed since I no longer post in my current blog. I need to archive it. I promise to let you know when I get my new one all set up! The holidays are simply sucking the life out of me as I work retail. (Usually I am self-employed as a seamstress full-time, but have a part-time job at a bookstore…during Christmas I tend to work full-time at the store instead.) This year has been far busier and worse than previous years and I come home absolutely exhausted and on the verge of tears every day. I will probably not be able to set it up until January. But I have a list of people to contact when I do and you are now on it! ^_^
I’ll be looking forward to know you better.
Meanwhile I wish you all the best.
xo
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Sometimes I truly have nothing to add. Because you say it all so well. I really enjoy reading your blog and you made me laugh with this one.
Sometimes it gets too hectic too, I have been trying to unsubscribe from many blogs, because when you have a few hundred notifications every day, it’s so overwhelming! There’s no way I can read that many let alone comment.
Rest assured, my friend, I will always be subscribed to you xxx
Oh, thank god you find it funny. I want it to be funny. I wanted all the 10th!!!
You’ve been so amazing for so long, I feel you need a vocation from here. So take one. I promise once I decide to get married, I’ll inform you personally. As for the rest – nothing new will be happening here. 😀
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You’ve always been my little angel here.
Your hugs and kisses and wishes mean so much!
Also the silly comments – I leave them all the time… everywhere! 😀
awww!! ❤ love you dear Greta.
Your few word always reach my hear!
Love you back!
Sometimes I wonder about the same thing and my blog. If I don’t really have anything super interesting to say, I really don’t wanna comment just for the hell of it. Obviously…so I think that’s what the majority of people think. Before I got into blogging and realized comments=good, I thought it made me look stalkerish, and I didn’t want to put in my email address.
Hi, lovely!
Thank you for being so honest and yes, we all feel this way: why “comment just for the hell of it” And that’s ok. I’m sorry if I made you to leave this note here, I did not meant to. Just had too much time on my hands trapped at home by a snowstorm. 😉
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I’m just a stalker of your blog because it offers so much inspiration..and reality!
Much love for your awesome blog xx
Dear stalker Rose,
I’ve missed you.
Please carry on 😉
And much love back to you!
xoxo
I love your blog and you write so beautifully that often after I finish reading, I have no words to say, just a good feeling of appreciation, admiration and inspiration from your words xxx
Aw, love, I feel so bad writing this stupid post after reading your amazing words.
Please don’t comment. I don’t care. I’m beyond thankful that some of my babbling make you feel this way.
xoxo
I rarely comment on blogs I read. I mostly feel I have nothing important to add and it seems silly and boring to constantly write “good post”. I came upon your blog by accident, watched the drama unfold, and was so impressed by how you handled it. I have been hooked by your writing and beautiful pictures. I do not have ED of any form, so I don’t really relate that well, but you have made this blog about much more than that. I also do not have my own blog, so don’t have a strong reason (linking) to comment either. But know that even thought I lurk and stalk, I keep coming back because I enjoy your thoughts and musings on life.
Hi, Jennifer!
Oh, yeah! The drama brought people here! But the Circus has left and I feel like my everlasting parables are putting people asleep.
I’m so glad you don’t feel this way.
And thank you so much for commenting.
I enjoy your blog a lot. I read it often. I don’t comment as much as I used to.
Not that it’s a hard fast rule, I just notice that I tend to comment on people’s blogs who also visit and comment on my blog….just feels more like a two way friendship.
My dearest,
Thank you for being honest with me. I don’t know if there are rules for commenting as such but I always respect people for their belief and honesty.
I do read your posts. Sometimes twice. I find them so deep. (Gosh, you are a digger, Gel) You are one piece of intelligence, you know. And sometimes I don’t quite comprehend (hello, English as my third language) and feel silly because I haven’t experienced anything like that. I do find my recovery “lighter” then yours (if one could be) so I don’t feel worthy to comment on such serious things. Your blog is a small place of science I love and try to grasp within every new post.
xoxo
Great~thank you….this helps me understand a lot more.
Thanks for accepting my honesty. I was worried that it might come out wrong or offend you. Not my intention.
It’s funny (odd), I think you are so so good at getting your insights across with fewer words than me, And you do it so eloquently and so much more accessible and helpful.
But I mostly write my blog for me…and for what I need to say…because i’m trying to get my life back. I usually think I’m going to make shorter posts at my blog…but they always get so long while I’m writing them. It takes me a long time to write and I don’t enjoy writing that much. But I love the feeling of accomplishment after I write a post. And there is always a small hope that someone else will find it interesting or even helpful.
I forget that english is not your first language because you communicate in english so well.
Thanks for giving me more insight into you. You are beautiful in so many ways.
You’ve called me “Great” 😀 😀 😀 Now I feel like queen Elizabeth, even more! Haha! I know modern technologies do not want to acknowledge me!
Please carry on! I was comment-less for a long time until someone has discovered me. And mainly I still do the same. Enjoy here. Only the stats numbers have shocked me. So I was curious.
I will try to comment more. And if I won’t be understanding something, I’m going to confess it to you. Deal? 😉
Love ya’
Ha Ha ~ those typos can sometimes be in your favor. You are ‘Great’.
Deal to what you said…..but you know, I don’t want you to feel obligated to visit or comment at my blog. Life is too interesting to get bogged down in obligations or shoulds.
Love you back!
Amen! 😀
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I read because your posts remind me to see happiness in the foam of a cappuccino, a spoonful of peanut butter, or a full tulle skirt.
You’re the sort of elegant, intelligent, and thoughtful woman I always wanted to be.
Dear Margaret, thank you so much for reading.
And you are that elegant, intelligent, and thoughtful woman, otherwise you won’t be able to appreciate the things I’m babbling about in here. I’m happy I serve you as a reminder. 😉
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I read your blog every week and truly enjoy your view of the world. I just don’t always feel I have anything to add.
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Thank you so much for enjoying it.
~Greta
I guess a lot of people just like to randomly scroll through various blogs, reading only briefly, so not having anything to say about it, really. For me, your blog is one that I know I always comment in, but I don’t actually comment on ALL of the blogs I skim through or just look at the photos.
I know sweetie, there are many ones I’m just stalking to. But sometimes it just kicks with someone you want to “befriend” with no reason. Thank you for always being here for me 😉
xo
Anytime!! xx
It’s always : 7. I don’t have anything to say.
For me.
It doesn’t seem productive to leave the same comment on every single post that says the same thing (which would be : You’re awesome! Great writing! Love the photos!”)
But just assume that I am thinking that with every post!
As a blogger myself, I have the same questions though. I think, OK – 200 different people came to my blog today, and I have 2 comments. Is it that bad?
But then I realize, other people are just like me… they simply don’t have much to say. It doesn’t mean they didn’t enjoy their time reading!
OMG, Shannon! You are amazing! I got it! I don’t suck! I’m just boring!
Haha!
You see I usually ask questions at the end of the posts, but somehow people don’t want to share anything with me, like in the previous one I wanted some suggestions on a good song and out of more than 300 people who read the post only one girl shared her opinion… OK, enough whining! I would never know why? 😀
Thank you for reading and commenting here!!! 😉
Thats the funny thing about the blogging world. We’re expected to be completely open, honest people who have no privacy and share everything with the world. But yet get nothing back (despite the fact that people ARE reading)
You cannot take it personally, or as a reflection on the quality of your blog.
Most people read literally hundreds of blogs every day. Every one of those that I read leaves a prompt at the end. A question to lure in the comments. And frankly, if they answered each one… well, their day would be over by the time they finished and it’d be bed time 🙂
I check blogs while at work, so I don’t have to comment unless a) I have something to offer that no one else does. or b) I am so touched that I just can’t not.
I will try to be better about leaving you comments, because I can see it means a lot to you… and you’re awesome 🙂
Just please. Please – do not turn into someone who writes only with the intention of instigating comments (like some people we know)
Continue to write for YOU. What’s in your heart… and don’t worry about what “we” think!
Yes to everything Sweatygirl wrote.
I read only around 15 to 20 blogs, and comment on about a quarter of those. Mainly because of time. I don’t want to be on the computer all day. But blogs are an important part of my life right now. I have to be disciplined. Because I want to have quality connections and so I take time to think about what I want to write, but that can take time away from life outside of blog-land. Once I start to get into a blog relationship I usually feel moved to continue nurturing that connection. It takes time to get to know someone through their writing.
I like your (Greta’s) questions at the end of your posts. I almost always reply to your questions if I do leave a comment. When you leave a question, I feel invited and I assume you want to hear from your readers, sincerely. Not like some other blogs where it seems like a provoking.
Aw, girls, I love you!
I love you are so sincere and patient with me whining over nothing. I don’t know what’s gotten in me to even issue this topic. Perhaps I felt lonely.
I really expressed my opinion in my next post about being true to your hearts. I do too not comment if I have nothing to say, just enjoy many of blogs and I don’t think they suck.
Thank you both, and please don’t comment. I’m good! 😉
xoxo
Most of the time I don’t have anything to say but in other support sites/blogs I have occasionally left a comment… but….. it is difficult for me to write something without spending an inordinate amount of time self editing & then often I just delete what i wrote anyway before posting! most days I am lucky to have a chance to read my blogs (only subscribe to a couple), check emails & still work & take care of everyone. I really appreciate your thoughts & experiences & your willingness to share. Your pictures are really beautiful & always make me fell good. Please do not take a lack of comments as bad or that we have no interest–you are appreciated! Thanks!
Dear Heather,
I’m so thankful for commenting, but above all for reading and enjoying it.
I felt so bad after this post. I’m cool just writing. I don’t want anyone to spend any more time than one needs here just to say “Hi!”
I smile knowing that you and others find a minute in your vigorous life to slow down and have a break, here. 😉
xo
Sometimes I don’t comment because I tend to go in marathons…so I don’t comment on ALL the posts I read that day from one blogger unless I just HAVE to (like now).
Sometimes? I legit have nothing to say. Most likely I am having a weird quiet day or I’m sick (or um..hungry…) and just without words.
I NEVER make something up JUST to comment, HATE THAT.
Sometimes? I’m super busy and would rather read and not comment then not read.
Point is?
NO WORRIES!
Because of what you’ve said here and your never pointless crazy post (sorry, I find them crazy and I’m so envious of that craziness) I simply adore you!
Carry on!
xo