How blogging changed my life
25 September 2017
Blogging was something that I never saw myself doing, ever in my life. I think for me blogging was not only a way to express what I love in my life and the world, it was a place where I could finally be who I am and express what I love through an entirely different platform besides Instagram and other social media platforms. It soon became a place of escapism and a place where I could have kind of a ‘safe haven’ from the rest of the world.
I started blogging with no background information besides the fact that I wanted the layout to be somewhat like LICHIPAN’s blog. She was basically who and what I had to work with at the beginning of my blogging journey. And as I grew and I had new ideas, I realised that I would never ever be as successful as other bloggers. I fell into a trap and soon my ideas were no longer what I wanted, but what society or what was deemed ‘popular’ online. I felt the urge to change all my content, and the fact that I was no longer happy with myself. I wanted to copy what other bloggers were doing and I liked doing it.
And then it was not until this year that I realised that you have to be original. You have to be you, essentially. Wherever you are in the world. If you are not yourself, you’re going to fall deeper into the spiral, and if you keep falling, you may never find yourself out of that spiral. You have to be true to yourself, and in order to do that you just have to block out what the world is doing right now, and focus on what you want.
I think I discovered all of this after doing countless morning pages entries. (I am still doing it) I made myself realise that it’s all about you. No matter where you are in the world, or who you are, you have to stay true to yourself. There is no point living a fake life and realising that it was never true.
And you can see the change in my life. If you take a look at my first ever post, I was scared and afraid of what people reading my blog was going to think. I wanted to present myself as the ‘perfect blogger’ and I wanted everyone to fall in love with my content.
Now I write with my heart on my shoulders. I don’t care if you don’t like what I write or what content I produce. I finally feel like I have found myself through my blogging. And to answer how blogging changed my life, this is it. I went from someone who had no idea how to even operate a hosting website, to falling in traps and spirals of trends, to being someone who is confident in herself and learning to love every part of myself in the process.
I started blogging with no background information besides the fact that I wanted the layout to be somewhat like LICHIPAN’s blog. She was basically who and what I had to work with at the beginning of my blogging journey. And as I grew and I had new ideas, I realised that I would never ever be as successful as other bloggers. I fell into a trap and soon my ideas were no longer what I wanted, but what society or what was deemed ‘popular’ online. I felt the urge to change all my content, and the fact that I was no longer happy with myself. I wanted to copy what other bloggers were doing and I liked doing it.
And then it was not until this year that I realised that you have to be original. You have to be you, essentially. Wherever you are in the world. If you are not yourself, you’re going to fall deeper into the spiral, and if you keep falling, you may never find yourself out of that spiral. You have to be true to yourself, and in order to do that you just have to block out what the world is doing right now, and focus on what you want.
I think I discovered all of this after doing countless morning pages entries. (I am still doing it) I made myself realise that it’s all about you. No matter where you are in the world, or who you are, you have to stay true to yourself. There is no point living a fake life and realising that it was never true.
And you can see the change in my life. If you take a look at my first ever post, I was scared and afraid of what people reading my blog was going to think. I wanted to present myself as the ‘perfect blogger’ and I wanted everyone to fall in love with my content.
Now I write with my heart on my shoulders. I don’t care if you don’t like what I write or what content I produce. I finally feel like I have found myself through my blogging. And to answer how blogging changed my life, this is it. I went from someone who had no idea how to even operate a hosting website, to falling in traps and spirals of trends, to being someone who is confident in herself and learning to love every part of myself in the process.