with apologies to Max Ehrmann.
Go placidly amid the blogs and the tweets, and remember what peace there may be in going offline.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Write your posts honestly and clearly, and read others, even the dull and the ignorant, they too need to blog. But don’t feed the trolls.
If you compare your stats with others, you may become big headed or depressed, for there will always be those with more page views and visitors or less than you. Enjoy your archives and your drafts, and love your blog, backing it up regularly, even if you are the only reader. It’s your blog after all.
Exercise caution in paid and review postings for these are transient and commercial. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many bloggers strive for high ideals, and everywhere words can change the world.
Be yourself. Especially do not linkbait. Neither be cynical about friendship and love, for even on the internet with all the spammers and trolls, it is as perennial as the grass.
Listen to those who have been kicking around for years, and give up the ways of the newbie. Be strong when there are comment spats and blogwars and stop looking at ranking lists. Many fears are born of too much comparison online.
Beyond a wholesome discipline to post, be gentle with yourself and your blog. You are a child of the internet, no less than google and facebook; your site has a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the internet is linking as it should.
Therefore be at peace with teh internets, whatever you perceive that to be. And whatever your efforts and inspirations, in the noisy confusion of twitter, keep peace in your soul.
With all its spam, drudgery, and broken links, it is still a beautiful worldwideweb.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Lovely, lovely post. Thanks.
That’s fab Jax!
So very true & so very beautiful! 🙂
Love this post Jax, Was a fan of the original version too.
That is the best and cleverest thing I think I ever read on that. Clever you 🙂 🙂
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I love this. So clever (and true)
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Yes, yes, yes – all very true. Great post, thanks a lot. Mich x
Brilliant post, so very, very true.
all so true great post xx
So true, lovely post.
BNMx
Love it – very appropriate 🙂
OMG AMAZING! I LOVE IT!
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Beautifully written and so very true!
Love it, very creative, poetic and very true, at least the bits I understand are.
Can you look at other people’s stats? What is a linkbait?
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@Maire You can’t see into other ppl’s stats packages, but some ppl display parts of their stats on their sites – how many followers, feed subscribers, fans, page views 🙂 And linkbait is a post designed purely to get ppl linking back to it.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
So glad that so many of you are enjoying it, really pleased I did post it now!
Really great post
That is brilliant. Thanks for doing that – I may have to put it on the wall next to the real Desiderata.
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Look at you with your trackbacks 😉 (Add a paragraph for those! :p )
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PS – you should make this the index page of codeplacidly – it would just fit beautifully 🙂
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Such a great post, really clever. And also great advice!
Really, really like this. :-).
Fab post! 🙂 So true and so appropriate for the times! *grimace*
Very cleverly done 🙂
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How very clever. I now feel almost peaceful into the bargain. Thank you!
funny and wise! (and now i know what link bait is, i shall have a go at that.)
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Wow. This is great. Honestly. (In my mind, obviously honestly because I don’t really do anything other than honesty and I wouldn’t bother to write it otherwise.) These are great words. Very inspired.
really welll done I love this!
Oh I love this post how have I not stumbled across it before.
Glad you like it – an old one but a good one.