How do I get time to blog?
This is one question that is hurled towards me every now and then. It would start as that I saw your blog, nice posts… and then the inevitable pops up, “How do you get time to blog?”. It has not made me to ponder ever, but when one of my company’s director asked me this question, I gave him my usual answer of passion and interest, but it really made the right side of my brain to step in.
I remember reading a blog post of my blogger friend, Sara. Her husband had once marked her blogging as a hobby as she blogged during her free time only and she retorted, “NO!!- I think blogging is not something you can do when you find time. It is compulsive, it can be so dominating and demanding!! You get some idea in your head and your fingers start itching to type in-spare time or not, you have to do it.
It keeps on gnawing at you from within.
And its like a heavy rock you carry on yourselves and keep feeling the weight of it, unless its typed in and posted on the blog.”
I agree. Once we start sharing our thoughts via blog, it takes on from just a casual writing to an effort of a worthy reading (may not be true for all!). So I told my director that if he realised, most of the posts were done late in night or had many drafts before they could see the light of the server just because I would be too tired to complete it!
Personally, blogging keeps me alive. I need to breathe my thoughts, if my work gets monotonous then the urge heightens. We all are in a rat race and something that makes us a worthy in own eyes is very vital, and that is where my expressions come. I do not write the blog posts to get advertisement money (there aren’t ads anyway on blog as of now!), so expression becomes paramount.
Simply put, there are things which we need to do and there are things which we want to do. The second one can fuel the first and first one can kill the second. The level of compromise is the only thing that we decide over here.
I love this line “there are things which we need to do and there are things which we want to do. The second one can fuel the first and first one can kill the second.”
I agree that blogging is a passion. If not for anyone else, just a passion to ourselves. A forum to hear our own thoughts. I sometimes look at some of older blogs and marvel at my thought process [agreed i also cringe once in a while].
But that passion also comes and goes for me. For the past 7-8 months i have been regular. Had a dry spell for a year and so before that. But the bottomline for me is that it is immensely gratifying.
Hi Jas,thanks a lot for quoting me….didnt think I ever wrote anything worthwhile!!And you are so right that blogging keeps you alive!!
@Sara: Well now you know your blogs arent worthless! People not only read but digest it too! Thats how this post could relate to the decently old post of yours
@Abanith: As you are hinting, the rat race! But rest assured, when one comes back in swing to it after a gap, it just becomes even lovlier