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Even though I am not a periodic reader of your blog (I did see somewhere that you were in Europe, as I remember you talking about Lichtenstein and what a “lovely city…errr…country” it was :-D, and I have bumped into it a couple of times in the past through the facebook newsfeed), what made me decide to comment is the fact that I have kept a blog for the past five years or so that I finally decided to close down last night. Just like appears to be the case with you, I used to try to be as open as I possibly could, although after a while I did remove the link from my facebook because, in my case, I thought it was a bit too public and that was keeping me from being completely open about my thoughts.

And so it was that I got another domain, transferred the entries over and restricted the number of people who had the address to like ten or so. However, for the past couple of days I began reaching the realization that

1) Those ten people who had the address were some of the closest people to me, and if I were to write an entry about someone, the possibility of it being about them was very high, so I still found myself not being as open as I wanted to be, and for my blog to serve its purpose of helping me reflect on various aspects of my life, I knew I had to be completely open with the blog and with myself
2) A couple of times in the past I used my blog as a way to convey my thoughts to people I cared about, but experience has shown me that telling someone how you feel about them through a blog is not the best thing, and so I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen again
3) I am moving back to Brazil tomorrow, and so I want to start off fresh in all aspects; I think my blog served its purpose, but now it’s time to move on.

And so I guess the point of this massive comment (sorry, I write a lot, and I guess I’m already missing blogging when it hasn’t even been 24 hours yet) is that I relate to you in finishing off Cornell and wanting to not only start off a new chapter, but a different book altogether.

And lastly, if you really are going forward with the closing of your blog, I’d recommend exporting your entries to a file and saving it in your computer, because if you ever regret your decision, you can always open up a new blog, import your entries and go on from there.

I’ll follow you wherever you go, I promise.

PS – Welcome to 20sb! :)

Sometimes we need a change. You’ll still feel this need later, so you may as well switch now.

So what do I think? Twitter to your heart’s content as thoughts pop into your whirring head. But at the end of the day, collect these thoughts into a few hundred words of reflection, and blog away! We need our daily dose of Jenn.

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