Chasing my tail ? Join me please?

Very interesting thoughts this morning. And here I am commenting on your blog:-)  I have noticed and wondered about this as well.

It’s a great idea. I use the ‘friends recent blogs’ feature from my blog page and get to scroll through pretty much everyone’s blogs. I still don’t comment to all but most…

I also mess around when there’s time with the new blogs on the front page; not the hottest blogs but the ‘other’.

Yup; if you are not a high profiler you could get easily lost along the way here on GAIA. It’s really thoughtful of you.

Have a great Friday! Sherri

Beautiful, Zephyr. Thank you for the reminder.

I sometimes poke around my tail-enders, and I have found that some of them haven't visited Gaia for months.  Sometimes I send a note asking how things are.  Sometimes I get an answer, sometimes I don't.  Thank you for this gentle reminder.
Hugs!
-Susan

Am with you on this. Gael. I do make it a point to devote a day or 2 each week to my tailenders. I post on their grapevines and sometimes I do so thrice despite no replies. A few do respond in time. As long as they haven't indicated having left gaia, I keep at it. Wish there was a way to put the tailenders ahead in front, just like we can decide to put the latest pod comments ahead of the first ones. Hugs and blessings!

An excellent call to duty, Zephyr!

Seeds here for that one - I, too, do this routinely, but have not thought to be conscientious and let others know.

Alas!  every so often, we come across someone desperately in need of help, as I found out earlier this week.

Good blog Z.
 
I see some of my friends have not posted for a year. i think many get discouraged that people do not respond to their blogs, so maybe they are on other sites. It is a commitment, and I think mnay do not realize to have friends one must be somewhat active. That takes up time…and many people do not seem to have it.

I really appreciate my friends and although cannot always comment on every blog, try my best to at least say hello through the grapevine!

Big hugs!
Aley

Gael you are right of course. I don't think I have actually gone and looked at the blogs of 'old' friends. Maybe new friends, but not old ones. If for nothing other than to see what their passion is/was, it could be time well spent. Then you know what you might want to recommend in future… I'll try and take some time as soon as I have a little time here at the computer. Thanks again. Sherri

Oh, a mission assignment?!  A good one!  Yes!!, mon capitaine (oh heavens is that in the feminine??).  Matters Not.  It is all about Oneness, reaching out connecting, reminding and remembering who we all really are.  There are some I worry about, they have told me just enough to touch my heart deeply, and then go silent.  You remind me to never give up.  How grateful I am for those who never gave up on me….
Peace and Love,
Jeannie

So if you blog and no one comments, does it still make a sound?   I don't blog much, most of my dialog tends to be internal, but when I did, I found myself disappointed when no one commented, but realized I was writing for myself than for others, the need to work things out in a space other than my head being my driving force. 

That said, I still get this guilty pleasure when someone likes what I've written.

But this stream dovetails with something that has been going through my head of late, when do you have to many friends?  Some of the people I am connected to have over 100 friends, at some point don't they become christmas card friends?   How could you keep up with everything they write? 

kicksave, you know you brought up an interesting point! I don’t actually know what is the purpose of friends in an online community, especially if you rarely interact with them. So the number of friends is hardly indicative of how many true friends there are on your friends list.

In recent times I realised I wanted to ‘receive’ something from my friends, be it energy, education - just perspective is fantastic - a great laugh, encouragement… something… ANYTHING! There were a few that all they seemed to bring was negativity. I just felt compelled to boot them lol I’m thinking of booting some more now, actually hahaha Maybe I won’t, I don’t know. Just that I think the friendship is a reciprocal relationship or at least it should be in an ideal world.

I confess to being one of the people that get a lot of friend requests. I don’t accept them all, believe it or not. You gotta kinda have a life… know what I mean? lol But like I said on my profile, my friends blogs are for me, time well spent. I know how I appreciate feeling that my friends are ‘reading’ me… It’s really special. And so I’ll take the time and try and concentrate on their postings to be inspired - which invariably I am - and to give a little inspiration if I can.

There are some really cool persons out there on GAIA!

Lots of love to you. Sherri

Sherri,

I agree with you…I accept all requests as a matter of courtesy afterall no one likes being rejected.  But at some point I pair down my list, and it helps that gaia doesn't send a notice to the friend when you 'break up with them' so they aren't hurt when you do :) 

I've noticed the reverse, that 'friends' are no longer listed and I realize that it's just as well.  For the most part the ones on my list I keep up with what they've written although i don't often comment (see internal dialog comment above)

Thanks Sherri, and there are great people here and I've grown attached to so many of them here.

I send all the seeds I can as I agree that when you keep planting something and cultivating and don't even get weeds - its rather invalidating.  Thanks for the help on this one.  We do need to help each other be a part of the overall purpose and check in without being prompted.

Thank you for this dear one,
Also Thanks Kes for sending me here.

LOve to all,

Loriann

Gael - I just wanted to let you know what a great and loving idea you have had here.  I must admit that I wouldn't have thought about this at all if you had not brought it up, and since I read this blog a couple of days ago I have put into practice “chasing my tail” - and found that many of my friends too have gone quite.  I feel bad that I hadn't noticed before, and am very grateful that you have set me on this path to reach out to them and let them know I do care and miss them!

And you are right about the blog thing too.  I hardly post them anymore to tell the truth, as I felt no one read them anyway.  So now I just post them occasionally: when I just really feel like saying something or I am entertaining myself, or sometimes I just need to babble on in print (kind of like now, lol…)

Again, thank you.

Much love always!
Jami