Here is what I want to know. Why do you blog?
Is it just to get things out? Just to converse with others in your situation? To write (to yourself), to write (to others)....
What is it that makes you come back to it everyday and type.
I will tell you why I do (kinda).
When I started, it was totally to connect with people in the same situation as me. As a stay at home mom, I felt VERY alone. I started this hoping to connect with people like me but what I found was so much better. Way better!
Because of this here blog, I got a best friend that lives states apart and is a lot different than me. A lot a like me but also a lot different. Our similarities are so close but our differences are so apart. She is really someone I can see being my friend for many years even though we live so far apart. I can go to her with things I can't go to my mom or Benny with and she can come to me with stuff that she can't with her family. It does suck though when your BFF lives 1000 miles away!
Another great friend I have made is so different than the one above but also alike in ways. We are so alike it's almost scary. Our husbands are almost like twins and so are we (except she doesn't drink beer!). She is always there for me when I need her and I am always there for her. We just really GET each other. I am so blessesd to have 'met' her. One day we will meet IRL.
Two life long best friends just because I was ME.
I can talk to these two chicks about any and every thing. They don't judge me or look down on me. They just understand where I am coming from and accept it and love me for it.
I started this blog to find people like me but what I found was people that are so different and yet so alike that we just clicked. How cool is that?! Two life long friends.
So now the question is, 'Why do I still blog now that I have made two best friends'?
And the answer is "just because!". It's not to make someone laugh or make them like me, but, just because I want to. I don't do it to make money or get the most followers or anything like that. I still blog for the same reason I did when I started. To connect with people in my situation but, I know I wont find friends better than Carrin and Amanda.
How many of you still blog for the same reason as when you started?
It bugs me when I am following a blog and they 'sell out'. What I mean by that is they start saying what people think they should say and do reviews every other day. I am sure they didn't start this to do that. If so, I wouldn't have followed them in the first place. A blog shouldn't be work. It should be whatever you wanted it to be when you started (if you wanted it to be work you shouldn't be reading my blog)..
If you want to 'please everybody', then by all means, try. But, if you want to be real and not a commercial, then stick around because that is what you will find here. And, if that is what you are, I will most likely read yours and keep reading yours.
Passing The Baton
2 years ago
8 comments:
If there is one thing FOR SURE I know about you, April, you are no sell out!
I am so glad to have become friends with you from this silly little blog I started a year ago. Who'd a ever thought!
for me, it started as a way to keep my family updated on my new life when i moved out to arizona from texas. now it's a way to unwind from the day and a personal journal that i can share with others. it's no longer my family i'm writing to... it's friends and readers i've made (like you!) that keep me coming back to write and express myself and reach out. :)
I so agree with you about the whole "selling out" thing. I pass on all the review sites and posts... and so many people do end up doing that. Just not interesting to me.
I started blogging for exactly the same reason you did. And I believe I am still blogging for that reason ;) though now it's more to keep my sanity!
Great post April, and I completely agree about making such great friends through blogging.
I started to just get writing again and the blog kind of evolved into a bit of everything. I like to share a little bit of everything about myself on it, so I never really know what it will be. Just whatever is on my heart!
I love your blog too and I love how uniquely YOU it is. I think that is what helps us to connect with one another the most, when we are truly ourselves and not putting on any kind of front!
I love reading your blog!
You made me tear up you sweet girl! I just think you are so awesome...I really could have never expected to "meet" people on here let alone to become friends with someone.
I didnt even know what blogging was. A high school friend of mine had one to post pictures of her family and I thought it was a great way to show my friends and family pictures of the girls and updates on our family. So I set it up and emailed them about it, but no one by my mom and Rose ever really read it. Eventually I figured out that there were other people out there whos blogs I could find and read and yours was one of the first I started reading. Then mine became less about family updates and photos and more about talking, like I would to someone in person. I love it and there is no turning back now! So glad I found you!
I think the lonliness factor hit around these parts too, feeling the need to reach out and connect with other women. And that is really sweet about Amanda..she really is a keeper! I can surely vouch for that.
I hear ya! While I feel kinda bad I haven't been posting regularly, I never got in it for the "most followers", $ or whatever...but I think you know that. I really started as a way to vent/ not feel alone in my situation...then it veered a little but I still try to be me! Stick with it!
Awwww...that's so sweet.
I started because I had some stuff in me that I wanted to write about. And to connect with peeps like me. I was a lurker before I decided to take my balls outta my purse and start my own blog.
It's the same now. Because I don't blog if I don't have anything to say.
And yes, I occasionally "sell out" to get some free shit, but only if it's not a lot of work and doesn't take over my blog. I will NOT do ads though. Can't stand clutter.
Gotta go shave....
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