Bye Bye Blogroll

In a random and very impulsive moment, I deleted my blogroll. I may regret it tomorrow, but at that moment it felt oh-so good! It still does.
You see, the essence of the 'Eze goes to school' list was to organize the blogs that I like and constantly want to check up on and possibly be the numero uno to shout 'FIRST' when someone updates.
On the other hand, I felt that the darn list was putting me in a BOX. All I seemed to be reading was bloggers in my blogroll, and not paying much attention to much of anything else save for the occasional new folk who stumbled across mine and left me a comment, then I would return to their blogs and check them out as well. True, blogging/reading blogs takes up so much time but there are so many bloggers out there who write beautifully and speak with much wisdom and I don't wanna miss out on those people just 'cos I'm sticking to my regular routine.
May I use this opportunity to shout the lovely Uchenna out? I enjoy reading what she has to say, and that is true talk.
Note to Uchenna: Abeg fix your comment box! I can't leave comments for some odd reason.

And then, I thought about how if a blog was on my roll and I was on their roll, did it mean that I was obligated to comment on every damn post they make as a way of marking my presence? If someone made an entry like 'I went to the grocery store', why the hell do I gotta respond with 'Oh nice! what did you get?'...wetin consain me with you and the grocery store?

I ask because there's been some bloggers on the roll, who also have/had me on their own rolls and who I may have visited their blogs regularly because I was interested in what they had to say, and they checked mine out randomly/when the mood hit but I hella see them as regulars on everyone else's blog, and you know what? I will admit that initially I was taking that ish personally and then it dawned on me like 'Maybe this person just isn't interested in what I have to say today', 'Maybe my tori is too long and folk have ADHD', or 'Maybe they just aint feeling the tori today' and ya know, I aint even mad at that.

It's a free world, and blogsville is just as free as the world is. We are free to talk about whatever we want to talk about, be it 'I went to the grocery store and bought an apple' or 'I had an out of body experience yesterday morning'. We are free to visit whoever we want to visit, we are free to read who we want to read, and we are free to stumble across a blog or 2 and decide 'I can't relate to this ish' and click the red X at the top right hand of your computer screen.

I'm still gonna read who I read and comment if I want to comment, but I'm not bound by a blog update schedule or a list. I'm gonna click on random names in random people's comment boxes, just to see what they gotta say.
I'm gonna check out more people's blogrolls and hopefully find some more hidden treasures.

I'm gonna do what I do, comment where I want to comment and not even take the ish personally if folk don't return to comment. Me being interested in what you have to say today, don't mean that you have to be interested in my own tori. Abi now?

A new blogroll may pop up, I may decide that I'm tired of looking for folk but for now, it's gone with the wind.

And with that said, happy happy blogging y'all.

Peace & Love.

P.S:- I miss my Godsis... Ms. Sula. If any of you is hiding her, I say before I open and close my eyes, release am o!

P.P.S:- I have so much stuff swirling around in my head, you may see way more frequent updates.