Why write every day? Why list five or more possible subjects or ideas and then write about one of them? Who is going to read the writing? Who is going to care?
I don't know. I know that 48 people looked at the blog yesterday on its web page. Only 48? I can't make a living off of 48 viewers. But, I am not trying to. I did email the blog to 79 people. There may have been overlap. Some of the 48 web page viewers might be the same people that received an email. Some people don't want to read the post for yesterday and deleted it without reading. Others started reading but got interrupted. Most of those will probably not return to finish reading.
I have lots of experience working with students young and old who were asked to read something. Did they? Who knows? What did they remember? Who knows? Remember? What did they get out of reading the blog? Who knows? Let me tell you a secret: Nobody knows "what they got out of it"!!! They don't know and I don't know. How come? Because when a person reads or hears or thinks something, it is never quite clear what the material does, what it relates to, how and when and why it might be useful.
A person might read a comment that jars their memory of a book they have been meaning to get to. It might be a book that I never heard of, but reading my blog got them remembering it. They might read a line in my blog that gets them to write or call a friend. That might happen without the caller or the callee ever realizing something in the blog motivated the call. Or, instead of a call, maybe a purchase or a trip or a new resolution to do or not do something. That's the thing. The world is a complicated place and things are related to each other in multiple ways.
These considerations make me somewhat indifferent to audience size. Sure, if one person reads my blog that is not the same as having 10,000 readers. I have never actually had ten thousand readers. I have had 169069 readers visit my web site in the 12 years of its existence but that isn't many. It is about 38 a day over the whole time.
But so what? Maybe I helped several people see life differently. Maybe I inspired a little love or a little hope or a little happiness. Try it yourself.
