The journey thus far..
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Looking back, rummaging through my archives, I didn’t realise how time has flown by. I started this blog in October last year and in a few short months, my blog will be celebrating its 1st virtual birthday!
For most people, in that time-line, their blogs will see traffic and readership growth. In the case of this blog, it has stayed pretty much stagnated throughout. Well, I can pride myself into saying that I am consistent at least..LOL..
The reasons are many fold and I blame myself entirely. See..having more than one blog isn’t easy. I know some have dozens but well, I’m talking about myself here. The other thing was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with this blog. I’ve had so many options as a purely personal blog. I wanted many things. From a niche blog to a personal diary, back and forth, back and forth. I never did come to some kind of compromise or a decision. Much like trying to figure out what a Schlage is - a futile attempt.
Then, I joined the entrecard network (incidentally, its the ONLY network or directory I’ve submitted to) but again, was never active. I received numerous drops and I am thankful for that but soon trickled away as I don’t usually reciprocate. Bad..Bad…Bad…
For some reason, I have found my way. Call it intuition or impulse, but one day I just got up and saw the amount of un-used credits that this blog accumulated that I thought to myself “Huh, I should really be doing something about the credits than to see it go to waste”. So, I did, I used up some for advertising and some for keeps. We shall see how that will go in a couple of days.
While I was on this road to recovery, I re-discovered the reason why I began blogging in the first place. My need and love for writing. It has become somewhat therapeutic with a bonus in that as I read stories from other bloggers, I realised that I am not alone in this and in many life situations. I begin to realise that even though something may be perceived as trivial but in reality, it isn’t. Besides, if I am not sharing and writing my stories, no one will (do it).
With this mindset, I looked around for a theme that I felt works for me. I found this. Though it is a pretty old one but works just fine until I get one that is more permanent. I still haven’t found that absolutely perfect theme. As you can see, this theme is fairly simple and plain. Nothing fancy. The way I like it. I’ve tweaked the style sheet a little and incorporated my own photo at the top right hand corner.
As I’ve mentioned, writing has been extremely good for me, in more ways than one. I am just very privileged to have the opportunity to do so and to share my thoughts not only with my friends and family but to an even larger community outside my box. And hopefully, the journey will be an ever lasting one too…
