The Novelty Wore Off?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm just unusually patient and diligent compared to most people on this planet.

Following up — in my own particular direction — in response to a number of recent posts here on the Hive concerning "how to best promote our community to others," I've been slowly reaching out to some of my fellow bloggers from the early 2000s.

The strike me as the most natural fit for Hive, and they are one group of people online I can generally have decent one-on-one conversations with.

What surprises me is just how many of these people — who at one time called themselves lifetime writers — come back with statements along the line of ”yeah, that was fun but I'm just not interested in that anymore.”

I guess I must not be the impetuous, impulsive and impatient type, because most of my hobbies today are pretty much the same as they were when I first picked them up, some of them in childhood.

Sure, there are a few interests I've picked up along the way and subsequently gave up on very quickly but it didn't take me long to figure out that some hobby or interest wasn't going to be for me. Conversely, the things that I like I pretty much never stopped liking.

Perhaps it would lead me to believe that I am "stagnant" and not developing in my life, but I think it's more a case of really knowing what feels right to me.

Perhaps this works hand in hand with the fact that I also don't tend to get bored very easily. Strike that... I pretty much never get bored. And if I've decided that something is of interest, I definitely don't get bored!

It all makes me think about lessons learned decades ago in various self-development and psychology workshops where we learned a lot about the human personality, and I came to have a pretty good understanding of the fact that a significant portion of the population are — at least to some degree — "novelty seekers."

My point here being that I'm finding it considerably more challenging than I expected find people who are actually still interested in blogging after all these years. It's not about having time, either... being "too busy" or whatever… it's simply about not being interested anymore.

I'm certainly not going to try to get people who are not interested in blogging to join a place like Hive.

However, I do feel a little disappointed that these people I once knew have so broadly seemed to have lost interest. It just surprises me, I've been here for 8 1/2 years and I am certainly not "bored with it!" But hey, I have a pretty long contact list, so I'll keep plugging away at it, with the personal approach.

Rather than big expensive marketing campaigns, if wach of us could just bring three new people to Hive, it would be a huge step forward!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great Friday!

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