Give 4000 cheers

The cheer count is moving in the right direction now after what apparently was a mass account or goal deletion of people I’ve cheered. I see I’m not the only one who has experienced this. Hopefully people have been reassessing their goals moreso than leaving. At least one person I thought was inspirational has gone away. :( Bummed about that one.

Sometimes I think people don’t realize how much they influence others, even those they never met or will meet. I read a very interesting article the other day on a phenomenon called “social contagion.” Basically, happiness (or sadness, or other emotions) can spread through groups of people, and these waves of change can start with someone many degrees away from yourself.

Since I’ve read that article, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I present to the world, and trying to make what I put out there better . . . it makes me laugh to think that somewhere in Kentucky, a horse rancher may have had a good day because two weeks ago I did something fabulous at a grocery store in Oklahoma. I don’t know that social contagion really works that way and probably just made a fool of myself describing something totally wrong but ah who cares. I’m happier, anyway. :)

Finally! I mean, seriously, with all the people skipping out of the loop and taking their accounts with them I though it would take forever. It almost did. Until today. And of course I missed it, the grand moment. That is always the case. Counting back I see that I gave my 4000th cheer to Smartstuff (no entirely coincidental, I cheer her a lot) for her six-word entry about getting back to work. Her own work, that is: writing. See it here.

I realised I would’ve passed the 4000 mark now if it weren’t for people deleting. :-/ Not that I blame them, each had good reasons, but this is taking ages! :D

I have now given out 4000 cheers so I will mark this useful goal off as compkleted (09/03/09.

I am etting very close and should complete this goal in the next week.

i’ve already reached 67 cheers….but why do they show me some days i have 5 cheers available and others 7-8 cheers? or 3?

hi there/...im only at cheer 40..but even if u give all 5 cheers each day it will still take 200 days to give 4000 cheers… which would be like 1 and a half year…
so i think im doing good:D

With Gavroche deleting I’m going down even more, to 3309. Seems like I’ve cheered her a lot! Well, totally worth it, every cheer of them. But – no luck for my 4000 goal. Ah, I’ll get there. :)

The number of cheers given seems to be going down rather than up these days. Yesterday I recorded 3589 today it is 3581 – after giving some, mind you! This probably means that there have been people deleting their (fake?) accounts, accounts that I have been cheering in the past year. No fun! Of course, as long as I keep going I’ll probably make it to that 4000 but at this rate it could take a long time. Sigh

helped me over the top with another one of his great poems.

Thanks phensy!