My best friend asked; isn't the blogosphere already saturated with all the bloggers out there in all social media forms? If so, why still create one?
A lot of bloggers out there, social media personalities turned celebrities, have found fame and fortune creating channels on youtube, accounts on twitter, snapchat and every social media available. Through these they have been able to gather a following of a sizable number of people all over the world. Their platforms vary in scope and nature but what ties them together is their desire to connect with people by doing the things they love and engaging their audience in such a way that they are able to participate somehow in their daily lives. The recent years have seen the surge of social media presence in the realm of public opinion. Some social media personalities have even transitioned into full time entertainers. Blogging in all its forms has turned into a lucrative business and a profitable enterprise. More importantly, it has allowed people from all corners of the world to connect with each other in unprecedented ways and has helped raise awareness on various issues affecting different parts of the world.
In a nutshell, blogging has allowed us to somehow transcend the boundaries of human connection delimited by proximity and take it into another level where we are able to share our experiences without having to be physically present in the same place at the same time. We have somehow transformed and escaped the limits of the world out there and given each other the chance to see the rest of the world in the eyes of other people. It is this connection that I long to share and experience myself. While it may be a profitable enterprise which anyone, myself included, would be interested to partake in, my deeper motivation is the need that I see for me to write about my experiences.
You may ask, why would anyone care about my life and my thoughts? Why would anyone be remotely interested to know about me and how my life has panned out? Why would anyone spare a moment of their precious time reading this blog when there are so much more they can do with that time? Honestly, I don't know. No one might even come across this blog and for those who do, they may find it silly or nonsensical.
The task at hand may seem too complex and requires much effort. This brings me to think that life is an uphill climb, not because we are meant to suffer, but because we are meant to achieve better things and reach the peak of our potential. What at first might seem to be out of reach may one day find fruition, it just requires us to take the first step. No one ever learned how to walk without crawling and we learned how to run by taking our first step.
While the road ahead is fraught with uncertainty, I cling firmly to my motivation for doing this: for you to know that you are not ALONE. Perhaps if there was someone who told me the same thing when I was still inside that dark corner of my mind, I wouldn't have turned out the way I have now. I wouldn't have slit my wrist several times to try and end the voices in my head telling me I was worthless or that I didn't belong in this world. I wouldn't have felt the constant need to edit myself, my thoughts, my actions because I would've known that I, like everyone else, am a part of this world - worthy of its wonders and beauty. I might not have even felt the necessity to blend in and spend every waking moment trying to be "normal." Then again maybe it was meant to happen the way it did because if it didn't I wouldn't have found the inner strength that I have now. I can look at myself in the mirror and not be afraid or ashamed of the man looking back at me. I understand now that being me is no different from you being you. We are who we are and no label or standard should ever make us feel less of a person.
To you reading this, I hope that as we go along on this journey you'll find these thoughts comforting. If not, at least may you take with you the knowledge that we are all stakeholders of this reality and it is not the monopoly of the homogeneous many that should define me or you.
xoxo
QB
A lot of bloggers out there, social media personalities turned celebrities, have found fame and fortune creating channels on youtube, accounts on twitter, snapchat and every social media available. Through these they have been able to gather a following of a sizable number of people all over the world. Their platforms vary in scope and nature but what ties them together is their desire to connect with people by doing the things they love and engaging their audience in such a way that they are able to participate somehow in their daily lives. The recent years have seen the surge of social media presence in the realm of public opinion. Some social media personalities have even transitioned into full time entertainers. Blogging in all its forms has turned into a lucrative business and a profitable enterprise. More importantly, it has allowed people from all corners of the world to connect with each other in unprecedented ways and has helped raise awareness on various issues affecting different parts of the world.
In a nutshell, blogging has allowed us to somehow transcend the boundaries of human connection delimited by proximity and take it into another level where we are able to share our experiences without having to be physically present in the same place at the same time. We have somehow transformed and escaped the limits of the world out there and given each other the chance to see the rest of the world in the eyes of other people. It is this connection that I long to share and experience myself. While it may be a profitable enterprise which anyone, myself included, would be interested to partake in, my deeper motivation is the need that I see for me to write about my experiences.
You may ask, why would anyone care about my life and my thoughts? Why would anyone be remotely interested to know about me and how my life has panned out? Why would anyone spare a moment of their precious time reading this blog when there are so much more they can do with that time? Honestly, I don't know. No one might even come across this blog and for those who do, they may find it silly or nonsensical.
The task at hand may seem too complex and requires much effort. This brings me to think that life is an uphill climb, not because we are meant to suffer, but because we are meant to achieve better things and reach the peak of our potential. What at first might seem to be out of reach may one day find fruition, it just requires us to take the first step. No one ever learned how to walk without crawling and we learned how to run by taking our first step.
While the road ahead is fraught with uncertainty, I cling firmly to my motivation for doing this: for you to know that you are not ALONE. Perhaps if there was someone who told me the same thing when I was still inside that dark corner of my mind, I wouldn't have turned out the way I have now. I wouldn't have slit my wrist several times to try and end the voices in my head telling me I was worthless or that I didn't belong in this world. I wouldn't have felt the constant need to edit myself, my thoughts, my actions because I would've known that I, like everyone else, am a part of this world - worthy of its wonders and beauty. I might not have even felt the necessity to blend in and spend every waking moment trying to be "normal." Then again maybe it was meant to happen the way it did because if it didn't I wouldn't have found the inner strength that I have now. I can look at myself in the mirror and not be afraid or ashamed of the man looking back at me. I understand now that being me is no different from you being you. We are who we are and no label or standard should ever make us feel less of a person.
To you reading this, I hope that as we go along on this journey you'll find these thoughts comforting. If not, at least may you take with you the knowledge that we are all stakeholders of this reality and it is not the monopoly of the homogeneous many that should define me or you.
xoxo
QB
Sigh the demands. Everything is name and status based now. Even the art of writing fluctuated demands for better written blogs. We write for ourselves. Our works were the fruits of our passion. No pressure, no limitations, just pure thoughts. Pure stories, weaved out of sheer expression.
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