An Invisible Audience

Imagine you've become a public speaker and have begun speaking in the same building every week. Every week you hear people file into the building, take a seat, and at the end of your performance you know when they leave. But they are invisible. When you speak you don't know who is watching, how many people, or if they enjoy listening. You speak, but don't know who hears you. You only know that they are there. So you start doing things to try to interact with this invisible audience. You ask them to ask questions. You suggest that they spread the word about you. You tell them to give you feedback. But there is no response. Week after week you go into that building and hear your invisible audience shuffle in, you have guessed from the noise it's anywhere from 20 to 75 people, but you can't tell if it's the same people or if the number is increasing. All you can do is keep trying to learn more about them. One day you even hear a rumor that someone from another country came to hear you speak. But there is no solid information. As a new speaker, you have no idea what to do. Maybe this is normal, maybe you just need to accept the silence and focus on you message, maybe they just hate everything you say and so choose to remain invisible. Even though you're uncertain, you keep speaking to this invisible audience. Grateful that they showed up, but curious who they are.

Today, I find myself in the same position. Not as a speaker, but as a writer. A blogger. I know most of my posts aren't any good, but I really want to keep trying. And yet, I really don't know who I am writing to. I write, but don't know who listens. I thought about naming this post "why won't they speak?" but I don't want to sound like I'm accusing anyone. I'm just curious who my invisible audience is. But I am incredibly thankful for you faithful people who keep reading what I write. So if you guys choose to stay invisible and silent, there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I want to say "thank you" to you for showing up every time I post something new. If you know anyone who might be interested in reading this blog, please send it to them. And if you leave a comment or somehow let me know that you read this, than I will be beyond thankful and super excited. As a writer, knowing who my audience is would be amazing. I know nothing I write is good enough to deserve the views I do get, so I  honestly appreciate the fact that there are people who read it.

So yeah, it's a little odd to write to an invisible audience, but I am thankful that there is at least an audience. Thank you guys so much for reading my blog every time I post. If you want to, please leave a comment or share my blog with as many people as you can. I really don't want to seem invisible to you though, so to learn more about who I am you can read about me here. For now, I'll just keep writing to an audience that I know is there. And maybe, just maybe, I can inspire an invisible audience to have the Courage 2 Continue.