Lest you mistake my meaning, this is not a rant, merely an observation.

Every time I write a new post (so, not terribly often) I am a little bit sad because I know that in all probability this means no one will ever read any of the previous posts on my blog ever again.  What, never? Well...hardly ever.

Admittedly, I participate in the behavior that has made it so.  I will read many posts from many dates in time, but I will only comment on a "current" blog, by which I mean, one that was written today or yesterday and other people are still commenting on.  This is simply because I feel silly commenting on older blogs as I know that it is likely no one will read the comments.  I guess I just feel like the purpose of commenting is twofold: to express your appreciation or lack thereof to the author, and to be a part of an active  conversation that includes others.  I presume these are the reasons other people tend to have the same habit, but maybe there's more to it.

So essentially, if no one happens to notice a post within 24 hours, it might as well not exist.  This happens with my posts a lot.  When it does happen, and a post sits unread, uncommented and unrated for several days, I generally delete that post so as to forget it happened. It could be because they were crap posts to begin with, or it could be because I'm not good at coming up with cool titles, or it could be just because.  

I have noticed that sometimes the "cover" will resurrect old favorites, and I wonder, is this because there are no worthy new posts, or what?

I notice that for the most part, these conversations only last 24 hours or so.  I don't think there's anything wrong with that, I just think it's sad sometimes that some of our good writing is so short-lived.