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$50 Romwe giveaway
Here are some things I got from Romwe that I’m loving.
Sometimes I get jealous.
This whole blogging thing is still pretty new to me. It was two years ago when I started posting my DIY projects and it started to draw in readers other than my friends and family(which is wonderful, and it means so much to me that people are interested in my projects) and while there are many aspects to blogging I love(one being the supportive and kind readers I have like you), there are a few aspects to blogging I don’t like. One of them is how as my blog started to gain more readers, I started comparing my blog to other blogs out there. The BIG, FAMOUS blogs at that.
Before, when it was a blog read only by family and friends, my only goal was to keep an online journal of our family to look back on, and to update our friends and family at the same time. I wasn’t trying to make my blog big or successful. But now, more goals have been added I’m not going to lie, which is to have it be successful so I can earn a profit from it. It’s not the main reason by any means, but it is a part of it. I realize that’s the goal of most of the other bloggers out there who are trying to make their blog big, and I bet none of the big, famous blogs will keep blogging if they were told they wouldn’t profit from their blog. So I go to their blogs to see what it is that made their blog so big, to check out my competition so to speak. But what I’ve realized is, while I get a little motivated to do better on my blog, I leave their blog feeling mostly jealous and bitter.
This whole jealousy thing is new to me because I’ve always been good at being genuinely happy with the success and happiness of other people. I know them and care for them so if they’re happy, then I’m happy. If they succeed, then it’s my success too! Then enters this blogging world. And getting into the lives of people I have never met and do not personally know. Then it’s a little hard for me to be genuinely happy for their success because I’ve never met them in my life and they’re my competition now, so to speak. So when I read their blogs I’m thinking, “I wish my blog was as cool as her’s!, I wish I had that many followers…, I wish I had that many comments on my blog…, I wish I had that many sponsors…, I wish I was a better photographer, my kids can dress that good if my blog made as much as her blog…” It motivates me to do better on my blog, but it mostly makes me feel discouraged and crappy. Like I’m back in high school all over again and it’s like a popularity contest. Isn’t that what this whole blogging thing is about when it comes down to it?(The blogs that want many readers and have it be successful that is). Being popular is not important and it’s true that, “your popularity ends on the last day of high school”, but this is not high school, we’re all adults now and we all want to make a living in this economy! So it’s basically a popularity contest overkill. While being “popular” is overrated and unimportant, in the blog world, it’s important because it means success.
And that is good enough with me.