THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.  Your post is something I need to cut out and paste to my computer.  There are so many times when I feel like I'm once again the unpopular girl and I'm not  "in" with anything.  I start with the obsessing with the stats and the commenting, etc and then, Thank God, I am now at a point where I stop myself and say, "Why are you writing? Huh? Why?" and I have promised myself that if the answer is ever anything but "B/C I love to write" than it's game over. 

Thanks again.