Blogging is like life – what I learned from blogging for 28 months
After travel blogging for 28 months (started in October 2010) I have realized that blogging is like life in so many ways. Blogging itself teaches me about life, and vice versa. And you can never learn everything about life at once; not about blogging either. I learned from blogging so many things that also help me to understand life better.
I put up a list of things why blogging is like life:
1. You never know what people will like and what they will not. You do something in life you thought was a great idea but you get only criticism as an answer. Or the other way round – doing something silly in your opinion, might look ridiculously awesome to the rest. Same thing happens with blogging and your posts. Everything you do is risky. You can never please everyone, but why would you even try to do so? Please yourself, it’s your life!
2. Interesting. Not boring things are usually the best ones! And it is very easy to make your blog and life interesting., at least to you if not to others
3. Both are completely unpredictable. Everything can seem perfect when you go to sleep, and then you wake up and find out it is far away from reality. There was a new update of a plugin or WordPress that so messed up with your blog you are going mad, or something weird happened when you were asleep and it affected your life.
4. There are bad moments and then there are good ones. Nothing is perfect. Perfectness is one of the very few impossible things. There always will be days when you want to quit and think you can’t do it any more. Yes, both in blogging and life.
5. Hard to understand. There’s always something new to learn. Life is difficult to understand, so is blogging. Many people out there have no idea about hard life of bloggers!
6. You need patience - things will not happen over-night, get ready for it! This has always been one of the most difficult things for me as patience is not my virtue. The word didn’t even exist in my dictionary before I started blogging. If I wanted something, I wanted it right now.
7. Discipline. To be successful in life or blogging, you need a discipline. If you repeat things that do work and change those that don’t, you will eventually become good at what you are doing. Great achievements take time.
8. Silly questions. We all hate them but you should prepare yourself for many silly questions about blogging and life. The worst thing is it’s always the same questions over and over again.
9. There’s always something to improve. You can never be done with blogging. Trust me, it is a never-ending journey of improvements, changes, learning, efforts and hard work. Same is life.
10. There are lovers and haters - in life and also in blogging. Some will love and support everything you do, the others will always just criticize.
11. Jealousy - there’s always someone who will be jealous of you, your life and your blogging.
12. Emotions evoke other emotions. If you write about emotional stuff on your blog, amazing or horrible, people will respond as it touches their feelings somehow. And it is the same with life.
13. People think that what they see at first sight, must be true. They can’t be bothered to ask you about the details, they don’t care what is true or false, what really happened, what you meant when you said this or that when blogging, or what was that thing in your life. People will make their own opinion about your blog and about your life no matter what.
14. It is not easy to find a balance, not in life, not in blogging. I learned from blogging that to manage time properly is always the biggest problem for many of us.
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Alex is a crazy Slovak girl who made traveling the reason of her life. In March 2011 she quit her stewardess job and hasn't stopped ever since. Her motto is ''I live to travel, I travel to live.'' She writes about crazy travel, fun adventures and sexy photos.
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Comment@ Lilian:
Thanks for commenting Lilian and good luck with your new blog 
Oh yes, patience is difficult to learn
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Love this post, especially because I’m new to blogging. There are a lot of lessons here that I’ll try to keep in mind, particularly the patience thing!
Comment@ Si:
Yep, it does! Too many silly questions asked on the road, I guess you got many of them too
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Like what kinds of silly questions? Doh! That was probably one right now. Haha. I’ve been blogging nearly 12 months and I’d agree with everything this post. Like in life, though, the positives outweigh the negatives.
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Comment@ Bjorn Karlman:
Bjorn, you see, emotions always work!
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Excellent post!! I really liked the point you made on emotions… there is a transparency in blogging that is so important. If you are not real, people can sniff it out… more than you realize.
Thanks, I really enjoyed the read…
Comment@ Micamyx|Senyorita:
So my observations were right
I just nod in every point you mentioned here!
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Good luck with it
Great tips and observations. Can’t wait to live these on our own once we become nomads in a couple of months. Some of the points you mention I kind of see them coming and I really hope we can manage them properly.
Congrats on this great blog of yours!
Cheers!
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Comment@ Anita Mac:
I find it very difficult to find a balance too.
Great people on the road always make it nicer and more memorable
Great lessons! They are true of everything, not just blogging! Still working on the balance one – never seem to be able to get that one quite right! Some days I absolutely love the unpredictable nature of it all – but mostly, I am loving the people I meet! When you meet some great people…the not so great ones just melt away!
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Comment@ The Guy:
So sweet! When I find out how to be a successful blogger, I can let you know
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Some great tips there and thanks for sharing your experiences. For newbies like me it is great to understand your experiences and how you’ve become as successful as you have. Keep it going.
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