This New Year, Take Over This Blog.

Happy New Year to you.

It's 2 am January 3rd. This is my 1st blog entry for this year.
It is also my last.

Okay don't freak out yet.

Here's the deal.

I started this blog over 2 years ago with a mission. I wanted to document every thing that I loved about Ghana and the life here. At the time, I was very excited about Ghana, and this is what kept me going for 2 years. But 2 years later, I feel that the mission is accomplished. We have in fact documented so much of what makes Ghana awesome. To keep at it just to keep the blog going would be pointless.

I'm still excited about Ghana and my life here but now my focus has changed.

I have grown. I have moved on. In fact, I moved on 6 months ago. Six months ago, I thought of closing this blog. I told my friend Yaw Agyapong about it, and he said no. He wasn't going to let me walk away from another thing in my life. He'd watched me not complete a phd. I'd upped and left America. I'd quit 2 jobs. He was like..."this is not your facebook profile page". You can't just erase it and start anew. Hehe. I really used to do that in college. I had a habit of cleaning my facebook wall. I would sort of re-invent myself every few months. haha. He wasn't going to let me quit this one too.

I listened to him. I shouldn't have.

See, the world tells us that quitting is bad. That winners don't quit. That you need to have follow through. You need to fight to the end. You have to complete what you start.

Bullshit.

I am a quitter.
That is my strength.
And there is space in the world for people like me.

I quit the things I no longer have energy for and find new passions. It also means that I do the things I do well because I am fully present when I'm doing them. Unlike most people, I like beginnings. I like creating. I hate managing. I hate maintaining.

The kind of experience a person like me needs is not one that is gotten from doing one thing for a very long time. I need experience in creating new things. This means that I need to create fast, then move, then do it again, then move and again and again.  Seth Godin would call this shipping. To stay in a place really long, the place has to be the kind that allows me to ship lots and lots of things. Advertising was a good career fit. As is entrepreneurship.
The reason I should have quit 6 months ago is that it would have saved us all the last 6 months of sporadic blogging. Mediocre entries. No love posts. No fun stuff. I'm surprised you put up with it.
I was boring myself to tears!

You deserve better. This blog didn't become the most loved blog in Ghana by being okay. It was awesome. The posts were beyond funny. Stuff you force your husband and your friends to read. Stuff you share with your co-workers. That's us. That's what we do here.

So, I think that if we are to continue this blog, it needs to get better, not worse. I'm not the person to do that job.

Believe me.

Which is why I am looking for someone to take it over. A friend suggested this too:) So many of you love this blog and want it never to end. Some of you still email me suggestions for blog posts.  I would like to find someone to be the Resident Blogger for 6 months. After 6 months, we can find a new Resident Blogger.  I will support the resident blogger with blog ideas.

Time check: 2:52 am.

Shit, I have to go to work tomorrow.

Okay, let's round this up.

If you want to be the Resident Blogger, or know someone who gets excited by all things Ghana, let me know. If I don't find anyone to take over the blogging here, then this blog will officially close and I will at some point publish a book of the best stories and those who have read and loved this blog can have copies to share with your friends and children 20 years from now:)

If you're wondering how you can keep in touch with me, I have just launched a new blog where I talk about my current interests. Come visit me there, follow the blog, and spread the love.

Time check 3:52 am