Revellian.com is now 3 months old! I had some very bad experiences last week and I seriously considered quitting blogging altogether. Many people may not understand why I wanted to, but it was a very bad week. About four days ago I went to just look at my blog and it wouldn’t come up. I checked with my host and they were baffled that even they couldn’t log in! I then tried to restore my backups and sadly they were all damaged and filled with garbled text. It was then I felt horrible that I had considered quitting. I faced the possibility that even if I changed my mind, my blog was gone.
My blog has been restored and my databases have been rebuilt! I learned how to use phpmyadmin in two days for those of you who know what it is. Now, with my blog back online I feel so relieved. I believe this happened for a reason. Is it possible that this was divine intervention? It feels that way to me. I will never consider quitting again. No matter how bad things are, it’s nice to know I have people to talk to from everywhere on earth. I don’t have many people to talk to in my everyday life and my blogging friends have taken on a new importance. I wish I had lots of great friends in my real life but I unfortunately have severed many ties throughout the years. Most of my friends are dead or in prison. My best friend in highschool was excecuted by the state of Alabama for killing two police officers in cold blood. We all have different backgrounds and mine is filled with lots of bad memories. I am fortunate to be alive and not in prison considering how many friends I had to leave to stay that way. I am starting a new life for myself. My hope and dream is that I find my soulmate, I deserve someone special. After changing so many aspects of my life, I find myself alone. All the history, all the poor choices and bad friendships have led to this point. I want my blogging friends to know that they have truly helped save me. If it weren’t for all of you, I may have given up.
I find myself not so alone, with so many of you giving me words of encouragement. There is no worse feeling to me than loneliness. Many of you don’t really know what it’s like to be truly alone. Consider yourself extremely lucky because it is like going to a parent’s funeral everyday. It has just about killed me. So I say that blogging has helped me so much, I could never say in words just how much. I am sick and tired of reflecting on all the bad and I want the present to be what I live for. I love you all and will be here for all of you. Blogging is a beautiful thing and I now know how important it has been in helping me change my life.
Congratulations. Did you just start with Pay Per Post? I thought a blog had to be at least 90 days to qualify.
BeachBum
BeachBum: My blog used to be on blogspot but I moved to my own host 3 months ago. When I moved I lost my technorati authority because I didn’t know what I was doing. So, I missed my goal of hitting the technorati top 10k by a hair; I wanted to make it in three months starting with an authority of 0. Actually, I’ve been blogging 6 months
Bobby, its nice to have you back & writing again. You know how weird it is everyday coming over to see & error msg then? You are really a genius. Although I don’t understand what is “phpmyadmin” , but you managed to save your blog when the host cant even do it, that must be something very magical that only our great teacher, Bobby can !! Yeah…Bobby learnt something again
Janice Ng
Janice: Phpmyadmin is the control panel to modify or create databases for my blog. Your blog is stored in a database but blogspot is the administrator and you cannot get in there and do stuff like this (that’s a good thing for most people until they learn a lot about it first). I only contacted my host as a last resort because I didn’t want to miss out on the learning experience, gee I’m hardheaded! Thanks Janice, you’ve managed to brighten my day again
I’m glad that you have found so much on your blogging journey. May it continue.
Ebele: Thank you very much! Blogging has helped me reconnect to people and to learn so much. I wish your journey brings you much also
I’m glad your back Bobby. You’re alright with me.
Sassy: Thank you! You’re alright with me too
Hello Bobby, glad to have you back ! I had so much isp problems of my own, but I tried 3 times to visit your site.I just received a wordpress error message each time,so I thought, just give it a few days,and keep checking,must be a server error.Bobby, it must have pushed you to the max to not be able to do any blogging and to not even know whether your blog was ever going to be accessible again ! Its great to read about how all your friends online have helped you with loneliness.What a pleasure to have so many genuine friends who are there for you,Bobby. I’m so glad to share your blogs 3rd birthday, and I hope to see you as one of my online buddies for a good many years to come! Lets hope for all this..we must support one another and I’m really glad that you didnt give up blogging !
It would have left a very empty space in the Blogosphere if you were gone.
Happy Bloggy Birthday !
Jesse: Thank you! It really scared me to think I lost everything. You will always have a friend in me
Bobby, glad to see you back. I remember the last time you thought about just stopping and deleting your blog. I surfed over yesterday and went, “Uh-Oh”. Glad to see it was just a technical problem. And divine intervention? Mysterious ways, my friend.
Seiche: I won’t have any more posts about how I almost quit. Those days are over and I have moved forward. I cannot and will not be a quitter. I do believe it was too much of a coincidence to have occurred like it did and I have learned a valuable lesson. We all have problems and I will face mine head on and never quit. Death will be the only thing to defeat my will to survive, as that is true for all of us
Congrats on three months, Bobby! Glad you were able to get everything sorted out with your database
I usually try to make a backup of my database and files at least once a week. Sometimes I slack on that a bit though. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost everything. I couldn’t survive without blogging…lol.
Mike: Thanks! You couldn’t survive? Me either! I back mine up after every post. If all else failed, I was going to copy all my posts from my feed and republish all of them individually, which in a way is what I did. The people at blue host stayed on the phone with me for 8 or so hours and helped me fix everything. Now that is some serious customer service. It’s weird because the first guy I talked to told me to just start a new blog! I called back and a different tech gave a different answer and helped me for the whole day
I’m really glad you didn’t give up! This is one of my favorite layouts…your site is looking great!
Joanne: Give up? Never! Thank you
A big hug to you. I am glad you are still blogging. My life has also been enriched by the many people I have met through blogging.
Ingrid: Thank you! I need all the big hugs I can get
Good to see you got it all sorted out. I’m really happy to know you’re sticking it out with blogging. You’ve brought a lot of class to blogging and it would be a dark blog world without you in it. You’re one of the good guys Bobby, a real class act.
Happy 3 months!
Brown Baron: I don’t have it all sorted out but I won’t be posting any new posts about quitting blogging. You have been a great friend and I just couldn’t stand it if I left. I am here to stay my friend
Hi Bobby!!!
Good to know that you didn’t quit! I don’t get over here as often as I like….so I would definatly feel at bit dissapointed if you and your words of wisdom were no longer to be found!!!
Sometimes lonliness is the heaviest human emotion, which has the capacity to suck the air out of a room… until you suffocate beneath the burden of weight.
Redefine what lonliness is.
Until you do you may never lose the feeling. You wrote about the encouragement as well as the support you recieve from so many others online….you aren’t alone!!!
Lonliness has a way of disguising itself as something else so far removed from the actual meaning of the word.
For me and this is only a suggesting..
Dig deep…..
Remove the seeds that are sprouting these feelings, because then you will fully embrace the total truth that no matter what…
YOU are NEVER alone!!!
Much Love and
a *BIG* Hug
Morgan
Morgan: This is one of the most helpful comments I have ever received. Sounds like the voice of experience to me and I will take what you said and put it to use. Redefine loneliness. . .this really makes sense to me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this. Much love and a big hug back to you. . .wow!
Glad you’re back in the game! I know how it is to have a site down and it’s not fun. I aged 10 years in the two days it was down.
Rolando
Rolando: Thanks, it’s good to have it working
Hey Bobby - hope you know what a LOSS it would be to all of us if you quit. I am glad you have those thoughts out of your head. Sometimes we have to nearly loose something to realize how precious it is.
Amber: Don’t worry, I’m here to stay! I just write what I need to, it keeps me fresh, ha ha ha
You’re right. I would be devastated to lose all my posts and comments! Thanks for being my friend
Bobby, it would be a darker blogosphere indeed if you decided to quit. Glad you got it all working again. I’m planning on making a move to another host soon so I fear I may be bringing upon myself a dark time.
And thanks for opening up like you did. It takes a lot of courage to do that so publicly. I don’t like people being lonely, yet sometimes I think we all go there sometimes, myself included.
And Happy Blog Birthday buddy!
Mark: I tend to write some very personal things but I feel 100% better afterwards. It’s just how I do it I suppose! Thanks for the honest comment!
Hey Bobby,
I don’t know you well enough to be considered a friend, but I
CERTAINLY noticed you were gone and missed you. I have
benefited from all of the help you’ve given and the articles that you’ve
written.
You make so many good causes that good effects are bound to come
back to you, including the soulmate. You’re right you do deserve
someone special!
Menopauseprincess:How about this - We’re new friends. Thank you
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Bobby, congrates on your 3 months! You’re a genious at blogging and now even knows how to restore back your blog! Truly Amazing, you are!
Honestly, when you were MIA, and i couldn’t gain access to your blog, i thought you hv given up blogging and deleted your blog! Boy, I was so so glad when u msged me on MBL! It was a relief! Thanks for continue striving! It would be like part of my blogging journey missing if blogging is without you.
Bobby, I am so sry for the bad things that hv happened on you. My heart ached as i read your post. It’s true I dont really know how it feels to be truly alone, but i know how it felt to go through parent’s funeral. You’re a strong guy! Bravo to you for standing firm on your principle rather than behaving like your friends and ended up in prison or dead.
“I will never consider quitting again. No matter how bad things are, it’s nice to know I have people to talk to from everywhere on earth.”
Love & HUGZ to you..all the way from malaysia. 
I am so happy to hear these words from you!
Jean: Thank you!!!!! I feel totally much better today! Love & HUGZ to you too
Welcome back Boss! We three were worried that you’d quit blogging altogether! Who’s gonna help us out with all the tech stuff?!
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Mariuca: I’ll never even think of uttering the word “quit” again. You girls really don’t need any help, but I like to hang out with the coolest ladies on line
Bobby! Glad you’re back! I am glad to see this blog in action again. I am happy that you have rectified the problem.
Don’t worry Bobby! You have so many friends all over the world you can count on including me.
Happy blogging, Bobby!
Emila: Thank you very much!!! That means the world to me! You can count on me too
Hi Bobby, Glad to see you back and ready to move forward. Forget about the past. Treasure the moment. Dream aboout the future. You have our support, my friend.
Just to share, I have the experience of wanting to quite blogging altogther when i changed template and the whole thing just messed up. Took me 2 days to recover to the original. In the meantime, i learnt something about XML. I guessed there is a purpose for it. Cheers!
Maketraffic: Thank you so much for your support! I need to start working much closer with you. I’ll be by
Ho! Ho! Ho! Bobby
I know we don’t talk much and haven’t really crossed paths much but I still consider you a friend. You have inspired many people here including me. It would be a sad day if you were to leave. We all missed you and wondered where you were. I know I felt like I had lost something that i could never replace.
Santa ô¿ô
Santa: Well don’t you worry a bit because I’m here to stay
Merry Christmas!!!
Congrats on reaching three months Bobby! Here’s to an endless (and prosperous) future for Revellian!
Shine on,
Aaron
Aaron: Thank you, I am tired of living in a cardboard box
Congratulation, Bobby.
Here to a successful 3 months, and to more successful months
Joezul: Thank you! Success is having great friends like you come by and leave nice comments like you do!
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