The question is “Do I really need bar graphs in my life?”

Yesterday was September 1.  A month ago, when the page turned to August 1, I did what my obsessed self had done for years.  I checked the WordPress site to see how many views I had for my posts.  Then there was the process of odious comparison:

July, 2023 vs. June, 2023

July, 2023 vs. each of the other months in 2023

2023 vs. 2021  (see the note below)

2023 vs. each of the other years since 2014

(Actually I exaggerate.  I wrote a post on September 29, 2021 … and not another one until January 30, 2023.  Sixteen months of absence … but you get the idea.)

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I am fascinated that today (September 2, 2023) I have no interest in seeing how many of you tuned in during August.  The “have to” is gone.  My ego is no longer invested in whether the number is 800 or 100.  If the number was 2, then I would get antsy but I know it’s far larger than that.

Where did the need go?  It’s true that I’d told myself to stop looking at daily and monthly stats, and that I’d often cheated at the beginning.  But now the whole topic of conversation has floated away.

I’m curious.  I’m not analyzing, as in “What does it mean?” or “How can I apply this to other areas of my life?”  I’m simply in wonder.

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Look what’s happened

Apparently without my brain being involved