I Fell Into the Trap

In comparison to years past, I did not do a lot of blogging and writing in 2019. I was still expressing myself and flexing my creativity through painting regularly. But I consider writing to be my “home base” and I didn’t do much of it. It’s not that I didn’t want to. I just felt uninspired. Every time I came up with a blog post, I’d begin to write it and then stop because I was already bored by the topic I had in mind. 

After some heavy thinking, I realized that I had fallen into the trap that I think many bloggers fall into. I realized that the mundane topics that I was considering were mostly all topics that I thought would please other people, versus things I actually wanted to write about and say. My ideas weren’t authentic - no wonder I was bored. I really had to step back and remind myself why I blog to begin with. It’s quite simple. I just love to write.

There was a point in time (10+ years ago) when most people who blogged did so because they enjoyed writing. Blogging has evolved greatly over the last decade. Now, most bloggers are what I call “category bloggers”.  Fitness bloggers, yoga bloggers, beauty bloggers, fashion bloggers, travel bloggers… the options are endless! Make no mistake, there is nothing wrong with this. In fact, I like all of these things (except yoga, unless you count my commitment to corpse pose). I like to write about all of them. So being a category blogger is not true to who I am as a writer - it is too confining to me. It’s not what I want to achieve, either. My category is that I’m a categoryless (yes, I made that word up) blogger.

It’s very freeing to have come to this realization. It feels good. Mighty good.