The idea to start a blog first came to me about two years ago. It was on a make-money-online blog post, and the writer recommended starting a blog as a good passive income stream and a form of online business. Of course, it was accompanied by a link to start a blog with a blog hosting company with her affiliate link(which I did not do), but it got my attention. And not just because of the passive income prospects ( though that sounded like a perk), but because of the idea that I could start a business without ever having to leave the comfort of my room. I am a typical Gen Z with borderline introverted tendencies, so the prospects of this sounded like heaven to me. My thought process was this; Owning an online business, Making passive income with it, sharing my crazy thoughts with the world, all from the comfort of my bed? Sign me Up!
One problem though, what the hell was I going to blog about?
And that was when I came up with the crickets that stuck with me for almost two years.
The thing is, I always had a general idea of what I might like to blog about, but it all felt like a hot pile of jargon in my head, and it felt it could never get organized enough to become an idea, so I just wandered about with the hope of starting a blog one day, even though I had no idea of what to make the blog about. I scoured the internet, read through various other blog posts, watched youtube videos, but I came up with nothing. Scratch that, I came up with something but I felt like it wouldn’t be good enough. and no one will read my blog. All the pros and experts at blogging suggested doing/choosing a profitable niche, and I for the most part was lost about the whole niche thing, and being lost left me with complete discouragement, so I put off the idea of starting a blog for a long time.
I was also met with doubtful questions? Will anyone even want to read whatever I have to write? Can I even do this? This takes a lot of effort, do I have the drive for it? Will I be good enough, Hell it’s 2020, who even reads blogs anymore in this day and age? ( That last part was a major concern, but I figure that if I still read blogs, then someone somewhere still does too). These thoughts will arise, and I’d get put off. However, every now and then, the longing to start one would arise, only for nothing to come out of it, but I kept feeling like it was something I desperately needed to do.
So at the beginning of the year, while making a new year’s resolution, and goals ( a good chunk of which have been abandoned, or forgotten, don’t judge me, I am only a twenty-year-old human), I made starting a blog one of my major priorities. It was my goal to not end 2021 without a blog in my name. However, you know how these things are, I didn’t get around to starting or doing anything until one day in April, when I read an inspirational post that suggested using blogging as a form of journaling but in a creative form, and another idea was born. I decided at that moment that I was gonna stop caring about whatever invincible rules of blogging that I had preconceived notions of, and just do it. Just write from my heart, and hope it finds people that resonate with it resonates with. So on one random afternoon, I was feeling spontaneous, so I just did it. Quickly, before I had the time to talk myself out of it yet again.
And I hope the rest is going to be history.
I am completely glad that I have finally gotten around to starting this blog, and even though I am still in the beginner-completely lost, and confused phase, I know it is something that I’ll get the hang of, and grow to love, and I am super excited for what the future is going to bring with it.
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