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A Plea From a Page Forgotten

This post was made with a bit of self-awareness in mind. A story from the perspective of a blog whose owner has left it, and the parts of the writer’s heart and soul he left in his old posts wonders what happened.
This won’t be the fate of my website. I’ll work to keep it running and not abandon it to gather dust in the void of the internet.

You know…I am starting to think I’m dead.

I know how that sounds. I can’t be dead if I’m talking, but let me explain.

Have you ever heard the saying “A Writer pours his soul into his work?” or “People pour their heart into their work?”

I have good reason to believe I’m part of that. The story I worked on was posted nearly three years ago, and it’s the most recent post on this page. I’m starting to fear that the author is dead or gone and not coming back. The page had become a time capsule, showing the writer’s life before he left. Silent and dead, leaving only me and the other posts here, gathering metaphorical dust as the once-loyal fanbase begins to break down and wilt away.

It’s strange, really. I remember looking at other pages like mine, other people who poured their heart and soul into their work but then vanished. I remember looking at an old page that was last updated in 2007 or something and thinking that I would never become like that. A historical page sitting in the void of the internet, waiting for some update or purge to render me useless.

But here we are.

I already feel old and outdated. The internet grows and changes so quickly nowadays that stopping, even for a month or two, will take years to make up, so sitting around for YEARS makes us pretty much a dinosaur.

I hope the site owner is ok. I hope he’s not dead.

Maybe he’ll come back soon, update us, make us relevant again and continue to post like nothing ever happened. Or at least come on and say he’s leaving forever. Let us all down easy instead of leaving us hoping that he will return one day.

Site Owner, are you there? Do you look at the stats of your page sometimes and see that you’re still getting followers and views at points. Do you miss us, writing and letting the world see you?

Did you get too busy, or did you get scared? Were we too little or too much for you?

Will you ever come back?

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Please come back.

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