Declaring bankruptcy is never an easy thing but I'm about to take the plunge...feed bankruptcy that is. 

There comes a point where you look at your feedreader and realize there's no chance you're going to even be able to 1000+ messages.  Particularly when those messages are being replenished every day.  At that point you have little choice but to give up. 

But there's always that lingering doubt...

So you pick at it, check your favorites, try to devise clever ways of arranging the posts in a vain attempt to read the extra ones over a couple weeks time, and then eventually just accept the inevitable and break out the "mark all as read" button. 

Truth is, 990 of those messages were probably ones I could do without anyway.  But I can't escape the feeling that I just flushed 10 great posts down the drain, never to be seen again.  10 thoughts that would have opened my mind in new directions and given me a new perspective on the world. 

It makes you think about how valuable new perspective is and how the blogosphere puts new perspectives out in abundance.  Admitted, the "good post"-to-"junk post" ratio is still pretty low but the sheer number of posts guarantees a few good ones each day. 

That's bigger than I think people give it credit for.  A little over a decade ago people only had access to the opinions of their friends and a handful of journalists that they'd see on  TV. 

Take that in for a second: the previous generation had no way of knowing what people in the next town thought much less what people around the world were thinking.  Having that perspective is a tremendous gift and we're in the first generation that has gotten to enjoy it. 

Its really pretty amazing. 

Anyway, this post was essentially designed so that I could post something quickly while I catch up with life but I kind of like the direction it went in.  A person can have all the riches in the world and be miserable if they can't bring themselves to appreciate what they've got.  You may hear me complain a lot about the blogosphere but there's no doubt its something worthy of appreciation.