***A touch of jealousy and pushups***

As I write this post, I so want to drop my blog from the virtual world that is the Internet.

I just finished making my rounds of the blogs I regularly follow (see right). This includes making comments on their posts. As I do so, I note the number of comments they had already received before my own.

I've noticed for quite some time now that many--if not most--of them have been slowly but steadily increasing over the past few weeks. Comments on my own, though, have fallen if not downright vanished. Suddenly thoughts such as what's wrong with my posts? and what's that m#$^%#^$(*@!! have that I don't have? welled up in my heart. Especially disconcerting were the comments over at some blogs whom I know started way later than Words, Weights, Whatever.

Then the rational side of me popped up and smacked my growing jealousy out the door and into the lavoratory that is my primal brain. It reminded me why I started blogging in the first place. It admonished me in losing my purpose and my focus and had me doing one-legged pushups pyramid-style (i.e., ten pushups, pause, nine pushups, pause, eight....)

Ugh.

Yes, my rational side looks like a typical sensei but muscled like Jean-Claude Van Damme.

And on that note, I feel so much better.

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