I kind of miss blogging.

Having a Tumblr kind of takes its place, but it's not the same.
I only started thinking about it this evening because I'm doing a 30 day letter challenge on Tumblr, and today's challenge was about 'your best internet friend.'
And I really had to think. I have met a lot of people on the internet, but I wouldn't really call any of them my friends - they're just people I know.

So I thought of Charlie.
It's been years since we were in contact. She must be... Preparing for her first or second year of college now, I would think. Reading back through her comments, I can see why I blogged so often. In the same way it is easier to act in front of a respectful, attentive audience, it is easier to blog when you know you have someone there who wants to read what you write.
Other people comment now and then, but Charlie was different. Her comments were almost as long as the posts, and I was always pleased to see them.
I don't know where she is, or what she's doing, or if she made a new blog, or if she moved overseas, or even if she died. But I still have the memory of IMing her while I waited for to find out if a boy I was crazy about liked me. She was there for me what others weren't. And that makes her a friend.

I miss you, Charlie, if you're still out there.
Thanks for the memories.