Monday, March 14, 2016

The Final Post

Hey Blogspot,


How are you? Can you believe it’s been almost a month since we last spoke? What’s been going on since the last time I published a piece with you? Oh wow nice, I’m really glad to hear that everything has been going well. Things on this side of the computer are going pretty well too, thanks for asking.

Look, I know that it’s raining outside and that I have a warm cup of home-brewed coffee sitting next to me, which usually means that I am thinking of writing something with you. As these words flash in front of me on laptop screen I can remember the first post we finished together on August 3rd, 2012 called “Last Missoula Days.” I was 24 years old and you were only about 24 minutes old. On that day in Missoula, Montana I thought we were only about to have a small summer romance that wouldn’t last longer than the duration of a trip down to South America. However, when I returned to home to the Bay Area, it didn’t feel right to walk away from something that had only just started to blossom.

Now, after nearly 80 posts, we are sitting here together in what has been a four year relationship that has survived time and patches of severe writer’s block. It’s been an amazing journey. Honestly without you, and support of friends who have read you, I wouldn’t be the person I who am today. 

However, after having said all this, I have to tell you something that might make you upset. 

I’ve starting seeing someone else. 

Look, please don’t turn off and log me out of Blogger just yet. Before you say anything I want you to know that it’s not because you aren’t incredible or because I don’t love writing with you. I think you’re great. We have posted a lot of experiences together, and they are things that I will never forget. Each post that we have started and finished were important for the both of us, but inside I can sense that something is growing distant between us. I’m now almost 30 years old and not the same person who you met at an online chatroom back in Missoula.

I’ve changed since then, and I hate to say this but you haven’t at all. We don't connect as frequently as we used to, you give me a hard time whenever I try to ad some photos to our posts, and you never like it when I try to change your font. Sorry for venting, it’s just that I have to be honest. You have always been there as a writing companion, and for that reason it’s really hard to say these words to you. 

I truly will always love and care about you, but it’s time for something new. 

Who is my new writing companion? Well, this is a little awkward but she has the same name as you. Gosh I feel bad about that. Her name is So There I Was except that she is a Wordpress site. Look, please don't give me that look. She knows all about you and thinks that you are cool, so how about the three of us be friends? We can get a coffee together and reminisce of about the 70 something posts that we have accomplished in cafe’s, busses, planes, benches, and under the shade of ficus trees. 

You aren’t mad at me? Oh wow, ok well that is good news. Thank you for understanding. 

Well Blogspot, it’s been an wonderful four years. A winter breeze is telling me that it’s time to go. There’s a lot of world yet to be explored and lot of inspiration waiting to be discovered. I sincerely apologize that the next random passage of life wanderings won’t be written with you but we will always be together in spirit. Thank you for everything. You look just like you did when we first met, a little plain but still stunning. 

I’m just kidding, you aren’t plain. You’re perfect.



With all my love, 

Daniel B Catena




P.S. Just in case you want to send a postcard....Here is where you can say hello to me from time to time :)