by Jason Stotts
My very first blog post was nearly 8 years ago on May 8th, 2005, meaning that Erosophia is about to turn eight. My own birthday is in exactly two weeks and I’ll be turning 30. As far as birthdays go, 30 is an interesting one: you’re definitely an adult and have been for a while. You can’t imagine yourself as still a “20-something” anymore, college ended more than 5 years ago, and so on. It’s real, my life is here and I’m living it. Not that I didn’t think I was before, but much of your life when you’re younger is about getting ready to “live your life” in some amorphous future. Well, when you turn 30, your future is here and you can’t pretend it isn’t anymore.
Blogging is interesting. I never set out to be a blogger. In fact, I only started writing a blog on a lark. Then, I just sort of kept writing and at some point things got interesting. Somewhere along the line people started reading and now some 15,000 unique people visit Erosophia every month, in addition to the hundreds who subscribe via RSS. As Erosophia has gotten more popular, I find that I need to keep increasing hosting and bandwidth to keep up with traffic. It’s obviously a good problem to have, but it also requires money to solve.
Not only that, but in order to keep writing, a person needs spiritual fuel: he needs to know his work is good and that it is having a positive impact in people’s lives.There’s no reason for me to write and share it with the world if it’s not helping people, so if you want me to keep writing, let me know it’s making a difference.
The point of this post, then is to ask you to help support Erosophia. It is also, though, to ask you to help support me. I’m asking you, in essence, to trade values with me. Erosophia and my writing is a value to you if you’re reading this (if it’s not, what are you doing here?). So, I’m asking that you take a minute and help support my work and me. Ideally, you should donate $829, one for each of Erosophia’s posts. If that’s a little much for you, then donate $30 for my thirtieth birthday. If not that, then at least $8 for Erosophia’s birthday. If you can’t donate monetarily, I ask that you at least take the time to leave a comment here or write me if my work has helped you in your life. You can also, if you want something a little different, buy me a birthday present from my list on Amazon.
If you don’t have the money, please at least write to me or help support Erosophia in some way.
You can get me a present through my Amazon Birthday list or feel free to buy me an Amazon Gift Card! I love Amazon and buy a ton of stuff from there.
If you want to write me, for this or any reason, do so at Jason(at)JasonStotts.com.
Minimally, like Erosophia on Facebook.
If my work has been a value to you at all, please take a minute and let me know.