Meaningful Words
Should I really start writing again? What would I have to say? I feel like if you bring something on paper or on a screen for that matter it should be something meaningful. So I ask myself again, what do I have to say that is meaningful? The answer is quite simple: Everything and nothing at the same time. My words, my thoughts, written down - published or not - they are meaningful to me. Don't they make me to who I am? At the same time they could not mean anything to someone else. Isn't that beautiful?
I have been starting blogs in the past. I always loved writing but they never worked out for me. I found the best excuse on why I am not successful with it: my pictures. They are not good enough, I am not patient enough, I don't have good light.... blah blah blah. It's it quite funny thinking about it now since I am a Photographer. But it never occurred to me that the only aspect of it that does not make it successful - is me. And why is that? It is because I tried to write for someone else, thought more of what other people might like to read instead of what I would like to write. About this new and fancy content that everyone writes about, about beautiful DIY tutorials that I am not even good at, about receipts that are underlined with absolutely outstanding pictures that I am indeed not patient enough to take.
I was always afraid of what other people think of me or better that they do not like what I write. But then, where is the fun for me? Is it even possible to be successful in writing when the topic does not come from your heard but is influenced by other people and social media? Well, for me it is not.
We are so programmed to get likes and followers that I did feel that some of my originality, some of me was missing in the past blogs that I started. Now I want to try a different approach, to write for myself only. That does not mean I am not sharing my ideas with others anymore - I obviously do - but it means that I will be going on my journey and write down my ideas. I will be writing, important or not, right or wrong - it does not matter anymore.
Everything that I write here is meaningful for at least one person and that is me. That is all I am aiming for right now.
Lily
I have been starting blogs in the past. I always loved writing but they never worked out for me. I found the best excuse on why I am not successful with it: my pictures. They are not good enough, I am not patient enough, I don't have good light.... blah blah blah. It's it quite funny thinking about it now since I am a Photographer. But it never occurred to me that the only aspect of it that does not make it successful - is me. And why is that? It is because I tried to write for someone else, thought more of what other people might like to read instead of what I would like to write. About this new and fancy content that everyone writes about, about beautiful DIY tutorials that I am not even good at, about receipts that are underlined with absolutely outstanding pictures that I am indeed not patient enough to take.
I was always afraid of what other people think of me or better that they do not like what I write. But then, where is the fun for me? Is it even possible to be successful in writing when the topic does not come from your heard but is influenced by other people and social media? Well, for me it is not.
We are so programmed to get likes and followers that I did feel that some of my originality, some of me was missing in the past blogs that I started. Now I want to try a different approach, to write for myself only. That does not mean I am not sharing my ideas with others anymore - I obviously do - but it means that I will be going on my journey and write down my ideas. I will be writing, important or not, right or wrong - it does not matter anymore.
Everything that I write here is meaningful for at least one person and that is me. That is all I am aiming for right now.
Lily
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