Editor’s Note: this post is part of the current series of posts submitted by healthy living bloggers on, “What do you wish someone would have told you in your first week of blogging?” We are currently still accepting submissions, so if interested send your post in the body of an email with pictures attached (must be less than 2MB in size) to healthylivingblogs@gmail.com.
This post is brought to you by Cynthia at It All Changes.
Hi!! Cynthia here from It All Changes. I’ve been blogging for a little over a year about my healthy living journey but boy it didn’t start out that way.
In my first week of blogging I wish… someone had told me blogging was like high school, full of cliques, groups, niches and people finding their way. Now follow me through on this…I’m not bad mouthing anything or anyone.
As the new “freshman” to the blogging world I thought I had to fit in with one group to be popular, liked, read, etc. At the time the blogs I read at the time were the three times a day food bloggers so that’s what I did. Only I hated it! It wasn’t me and I got bored of blogging quickly and quit. Too many pictures to take (usually after I had half-eaten my Clif Bar for breakfast) and the same boring meals after another. I was the miserable girl in the back of the class who longed to be like the popular girls.
Then I discovered that blogging covers a wide range of topics, people, and personalities all being them. Why was I trying to be something I wasn’t, instead of just being me? I wish someone had told me that first week that I’d find me place eventually but try it all out. Blogging like life is High School where you can choose to go out for sports and create works of art, bring your own lunch and buy on pizza day, be valedictorian and enjoy the weekends with friends. You don’t need to fit into one label to make your blog you.
For me I’m a vegetarian, runner with IBS, full time job and just loving life. The more I showed who I was with blogging the more people liked me and not who I pretended to be. Who knew I was cool just as me? The same with blogging. You can’t and shouldn’t fit into one category of blogging. Your are an amazing multifaceted person and as a reader I want to get to know you just as much as I want to share me. We are unique and that is pretty darned cool!
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I so relate to this! As someone who (literally) just pushed “publish” for the first time on my own blog, I can relate to some of these sentiments. I don’t think I’ve been so nervous about something since high school, so it’s nice to know that I’m not alone–and that regardless, there’ll be someone out there who thinks I’m cool.