My dudes. This blogging thing is hard. Like really hard.
When I started my first blog six years ago (and even when I started this one just over a year and a half ago), I knew two things: I enjoyed writing and I needed an outlet. Because of that, I thought that it would be easy to write posts and to consistently churn out content (Did you just scoff at naive Meghan from years ago? Because I totally did).
Little did I know that blogging isn't just writing posts. It's also taking striking, captivating photos; it's also crafting and telling a great story.
However, blogging has a not so pretty side that we aren't as open about. In many ways, blogging is a bunch of people selfishly shouting into the void and hoping that someone will read our posts and tell us they liked it. It is spending more time scrolling Instagram, comparing yourself and calling it "searching for inspo"; it's focusing more on the likes than on the true self-accomplishment at putting something out there.
And that is what made it easy for me to lose steam when it came to blogging. As soon as I made it about getting validation and less about creation, it suffered. I quit posting. I quit following through when the urge to write came.
But I have finally learned that, at its heart, blogging is about connection: with the self and with the reader. And true connection doesn't happen without authenticity and purity of purpose.
So moving forward, I don't know what to tell you to expect from this space. I think finding my voice here is going to be a journey, and I hope it's one that you want to take with me.
