Blogging Is Supposedly Fun

I never thought I will find blogging a satisfying activity. I’m not a born writer, I took up engineering and did not consider (English) writing and speech then as important (so please be considerate for grammatical and spelling error). But because of calling (a.k.a. destiny, purpose in life) I ended up doing something that I never imagined doing. I find pleasure in public speaking (training, teaching), coaching and mentoring. I have been doing this in volunteer work as well as in my corporate career.

My experiences in the corporate world is bitter-sweet, and saw how other people is experiencing the same, so I thought why not start a yahoo group to serve as support group for us. So I began sharing my experiences, not because I find myself better than others, but exactly the opposite. I hope to get tips from others of my struggles in life, at the same time, share the lessons from my painful experiences.  My problem with egroup was, when I hit the send button, I have no control already of what I wrote. Thus, I started blogging  more than 3 years ago after finding it as better platform in sharing but at the same time control of my copyrighted work.

I find satisfaction knowing people are helped with my mistakes and other lessons in life that I shared. Of the 3 years of blogging, this blog

1. connected separated families ( 1) relatives living in different continents and had no contact with each other for 2 decades found each other thru the comments section of this blog (2) a father became aware he has a son from an old sweetheart (after 18 years)
2. provided resource materials on spiritual intelligence to students and applied it in practical nursing.
3. helped struggling small enterprises
4. provided helped to young entrepreneurs and young professionals
5. provided answer to victims of sexual harassment
6. provided job referrals.
7. lead people to salvation (acceptance of Jesus as their Lord and Saviour)

and so on… This is fun.

Likewise, thru this blog, the blogger reaped the following benefits as well

1. became an Asst. Vice President
2. business opportunities were presented
3. earned passive income
4. consulting job

an added bonus, if I may say, but not the main purpose why I blog. This is also fun.

However, the blogosphere is like the real world, harsh and cruel at times, but that’s life. While we have an “ideal” world, it’s far from reality. Preconceived ideas (prejudices may be a strong word) exist, among bloggers– between those with their own domain and those with none. Those who accept paid reviews, and those, for some reason, finds it unethical. To those banned by google and those who are not. Those w/ PR and those with 0. Those who sell text link ads and those who don’t. Those who are giving (paid or not) their services to politicians and those who don’t. Those who got invited to events and those who are not. Those who attend events for freebies and those who don’t. Those who are atheists and those who are not. And the list just goes on and on.

We all share the same space in the blogosphere and sparks are bound to happen because of  our unique differences and partisan worldviews. It should not mean, however, that one blogger is better than the other. As bloggers, we should agree to disagree, give each other the space it need in the blogosphere, forgiveness when sought, and respect for each others opinions and differences.

Blogging is fun… the problems that come our way should not take the fire and fun of  blogging in us.

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