Paring down my Friends list

[spedbug]

Can I be honest? I have seventy-seven people on my friends list and it's partially due to this that I spend less time on LJ. I realize I'm under no obligation to post in everyone's journal yet I feel I should and will actually avoid reading journals if I feel I can't reply. This sucks. I worry that I already show partiality to certain people's journals while ignoring others and hate to think I'd inadvertanly hurt someone's feelings, in the end.

I went and looked at my Friends list, today, in hopes of finding a good ten people on there I could cut without hurting myself or them in the process and it was fruitless. Nearly every single person on my Friends list is someone I adore interacting with (even if it's only once in a while).

*sigh*

I love you guys and can't bear to part with any of you. :(

Comments

[myopicmeringue.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know that feeling - I have had that experience too, and I also don't want to cull anyone. I feel a bit overwhelmed sometimes by my friends list, and I feel I at least have to read everyone's posts even if I don't comment, but lately I sometimes just skim read and then decide which I want to read in more detail and maybe comment on, because I really don't have time to read them all.

I now feel a bit bad because I know I write a lot of entries sometimes, but honestly I don't expect people to read all my entries. A lot of the time I'm just rambling because I like expressing myself in writing (and also now trying out my digital camera!) and I never think anyone is ignoring me if they don't comment.

*hugs*

[spedbug.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the assurance. I would dearly love to read everyone's journal even if they are, as some have said, just daily ramblings but it's just become too overwhelming. Lately, I've had the attention span of a flea and the capacity to absorb very little "outside stimulus".

I'm not one for change and handle it poorly because I tend to spend a lot of time worrying over details and possibilities. At this moment in my life, a lot of change is happening or gearing up to happen, some out of my hands and some by choice. Hopefully, when it all settles into place, I'll be better able to focus on something outside my own little sphere of worry.