Blogging

What it means to me...

This morning I was looking through blog posts as I was drinking my coffee. While doing this I found this post. That guest post was amazing to me and I had to go and check out Megan's blog. Well, when I get there I found this post! I honestly felt like Megan was talking to me when she wrote that post. It really made me think, and I decided to write this post about what blogging is to me. 

 

I know that I have touched base on this before in guest posts and even on here. I just feel like as time goes on blogging changes for me. 

I have to say that I have become very passionate about blogging over the last year. I have met some AMAZING women through this that I consider to be REAL friends that I don't know how I ever lived without. There are SO MANY of these girls that have become near and dear to my heart! But Lindsey and Amanda deserve some major credit! These two woman have been there for me like none of the friends that I have made in person have ever been. They have such a special place in my heart and I hope that they know it!

The content of a blog is never changing. I have seen a lot of people who have nothing but fluff posts, or they aren't REAL in what they write. I have come to decision that I don't ever want my blog to be this way. I want every post that I do to really mean something to me. I want to be RAW in my blog. When you read my posts you should feel like you are really hearing me, and not just a bunch of fluff. I don't think I have been too bad about fluff, but I know I have done a fluff post here and there! I still want to participate in link ups and everything, I just don't think that it is all my posts should consist of. 

{I took this picture from Megan's post.}

I may not have found this image on my own, but I couldn't agree with it more. I promise to do more "real posts". But with this promise comes the knowledge that not all posts will be all rainbows and butterflies. I am generally a very happy person! I do have my not so happy moments though and I feel like I need to be able to share those on here too. In the past I have felt like I shouldn't do the negative posts because my followers may not want to read those. It has hit me this week that it's not all about the followers. Don't get my wrong, I LOVE it every time I see that I have a new follower. This means that someone actually thought that what I had to say was worth reading and coming back for more. But it shouldn't be ALL about that feeling. Does this make sense?

So what is blogging to me? 

Blogging is my way to document my thoughts, share my world with all of you, vent when I need to, give advice if I can, and meet some of the most AMAZING people in the world while doing it all.

Blogging has become a passion of mine. I'm just realizing that I need to stay true to myself while doing it.