Ok. I’ve kept quiet long enough about the Deafread blog awards since the voting period is now over. I was going to blog about this a week or so ago but decided to go ahead and get this one out of the way. I’ve got other blogs lined up to worry about.
Bottom line, I'm wary about these kinds of awards whether it's for hearing or deaf, or both despite the supposed good intentions that go into these award ceremonies. Are these awards, any award ceremonies, about artistic validation or a validation of time and effort well spent? A way to help boost blog traffic or a chance to lord it over your blog peers? What does it really prove? What are the purposes? And what would the net results be from these awards from people getting the awards? A self-flagellation of pure ego and pleasure along with loud trumpeting about their own awards over the internet? Or will it be a show of humility and humbleness? Ego is the one territory we need to be careful how we tread into. Especially how we present ourselves when it comes to these awards. And that is why I don’t bother to watch the Golden Globes and Academy awards ceremonies in the first place. It just reeks of something else.
But as Tayler Mayer said about all bloggers, "....everyone is a winner!"
True.
They are winners whether they’ve blogged a few times or thousand of times. They are by definition a blogger. No ifs, ands or buts about it. Still, the Deafread blog awards will go on and I won’t attend. I have better things to do. Though I still appreciate to whoever nominated me for the vote in the first place. My “award” is knowing that people from all over the world read my blog. And to get an appreciative handshake or an acknowledgement from an unknown Kokonut Pundits reader or a fan is good enough for me.
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