Today, out of nowhere a thought popped into my mind - to go and check if one of our old blogs are still active and up for viewing. I happened across this blog and although I had forgotten about it I remembered it all the moment I started reading. I really loved posting here & although I'm the type of girl who loves a clean slate to start with I find myself nostalgically attached to the past posts here. Silly, I know!
I suppose blogging has died in the age of Instagram - posting a single image is such an easy way to visually document your life so it's really no surprise that blogging has died down. But it is very sad. When I logged on here I also ventured to the 'blogs you follow' tab and it saddened me to see people who had been such regular posters just fall away. Perhaps one of the reasons I stopped was because of the fear of losing these virtual friends who just decided to stop one day. If I didn't check in here anymore I wouldn't know that our virtual connection was broken. The last post from anyone I follow was in 2017 - how disparaging :( So instead of sitting here and mourning over the fact that no one wants to pour out their lives into blogposts anymore, I am writing one instead.
If I'm honest my true reason for stopping is because I felt that there were people out there in my readership that didn't wish me happiness (there's something about a bitter ex-boyfriend that can put a girl off blogging like nobody's business!) and I didn't want to be so publicly vulnerable. This combined with a growing desire for intense privacy after a very public childhood, teenage years & early adulthood have been the two largest contributing factors as to why I stopped writing here regularly.
I'd like to mention another thought about a blog past - when I was 18 I started a blog called 'simply wends'. I can still recall the pink and green design (what was I thinking???) & how popular it was to post on your blog at the time (2008) and to follow your friends in turn! 11 years on I am very upset that I deleted the whole thing on a whim after a breakup. Can you imagine how comedic it would be to look back on those posts now!? I certainly have done some growing up since then, but the biggest change would be how much I have been able to travel since then and how I have eventually started to find who I really am. But still - I'd love to look back on those photos, memories and thoughts.
I don't know if anyone will see this (If no one is posting then perhaps no one is reading either?), but if you are reading this, I challenge you to write a blogpost today. Even if it is just a few lines. Perhaps one day you will look back as I do today and feel gratitude that you shared something today.
Wx
Is blogging dead?
