Reflections Of The Year 2009 Gone By

In a few days, the year 2009 will come to an end and in hours time, we will be ushering Christmas. Like always, during times like this when loved one comes home and families gets a chance to be truly together, sentimental mood swings brings back fond memories of the year gone by.

In the past one year, some may have lost their loved ones while some may have found a new love. Some may have prospered while some went broke. Some may be happy memories and some sad, but all the same, the joy in the realization of just simply being healthy and alive is enough, to say the least. The wise thing to do is to keep the happy ones and discard the sad ones. Though it is easier said than done, for human beings never really forgets, they can only stop recalling, we should learn to move on with our lives and not remain static, engulfed by self pity over any misfortunes that might have befallen us in the past year.

A new year always brings new hope and new resolutions. I am never one to make resolutions but I have always hung on to the belief that each new year will be better than the previous one. It is the only way to carry on living happily year after year. Because there is always hope.

On a personal level, my life hasn’t changed much and I am happy without the change. As it is, I have stopped asking for more than I can bargain. I am learning to live a stress free life where I will only work for things that are needed for basic survival and have things that I do not need to fight over for. I no longer dream of having a fancy car or a big house by the sea. I no longer yearn for fame nor recognition. I stopped looking for that proverbial pot of gold beneath the rainbow.

Maybe it is due to my age or maybe it is due to the fact that I have seen too many of my closed friends passed on. They joined the rat pack and competed in the rat race. They made millions but was always fighting for more. Did they get to enjoy their fruits of hard labor? Maybe, maybe not, but when the time comes to meet our creators, everyone will leave empty handed with just a suit on our back. All the fighting, competing, bickering, back stabbing and all the millions they made in the process, will in the end, always comes to naught.

Virtually, as a blogger, I would have been blogging for nearly 5 years now. From my first Blogger blog where I wrote lots of nonsensical things, to this quite serious one, I think I have started and abandoned at least 10 other ‘fun’ blogs. All were started at the spur of the moment and just for the heck of starting one.

Like all bloggers, I did initially dreamed of getting famous one day when everyone in the Blogosphere will know me. There wasn’t even the slightest thought of making money from my blogs. All I wanted was fame and recognition. It was much later that I found out we could actually make some side income form blogging and that was when the period of frustrations started. Thus began my journey to seek the truth about making money online.

Plodding along the rocky and uneven road of making money online, I stumbled many a times along the way, due to all the wrong information that I got. It was much later that I found good souls who was willing to show me the true way and for that I feel blessed and thankful to 2 guys. One is Victor Franqui and the other is Grizz who teaches beginners to make money online. Along with them, I made lots of good, friendly and helpful people who are there whenever I am in need of advise and that occasional backlink.

However, knowing is one thing. Putting in practice what you know is another, as I later found out. Life as a Internet Marketer is as stressful if not even more that doing a brick and mortar business in real life. The scenarios changes so fast that you even before you can implement something, something else will crop up and all your efforts will go down the drain.

After spending near to a year in the field, making not much progress and with my new found philosophy in life, I made a gradual retreat from the arena of Internet Marketing. I closed down all my sites and all I have now are five blogs including this one. Combined, they provide me with a not so comfortable but reasonable side income that allows me to pay off my debts slowly and gradually but surely.

Blogigs.com which I spent most of my time in now, has seen good increment in traffic, but mostly from Search Engines, largely due to my more frequent updating with keyword rich posts. Subscribers and repeated readers though, remained dismal. Even my campaign to increase my subscribers base by giving away a bunch of really useful ebooks has not been well responded.

The one month campaign which will be ending along with the year has only garnered about 50 new subscribers. I consider this a miserable failure. However, with my present outlook in life, I do not let that bother me too much. As long as I keep getting those organic traffic, this blog will get along very nicely.

In reflecting the year gone by, I would say I have gained more than I have lost. Me and my whole family have been blessed with good health for the past year. My eldest daughter found her soul mate and got married. My second daughter got her due promotion. My third daughter successfully completed her second year in her paper chase and my youngest one too confidently finished her pre-U examinations.

For the coming year, though I still hope, I do not hope for as much as I use to. I won’t be hoping for that big house and that new car. That’s for sure. All I hope for now is everyone in the family, friends and close ones stay healthy and happy. Hope there would be no calamities in the world. Hope there will be no war. Hope that I can still be blogging here for the entire of next year.

With that, this is Costa, signing out for the rest of the year on this 24th day of December on the eve of Christmas, in the year of the Lord, Two Thousand and Nine.

To All Readers of Blogigs.com,

Have A Blessed Christmas and A Happy New Year.