Why a blog?

In my opinion, a blog is more or less an online journal where you can keep track of all your life's achievements and experiences. This way not only can people learn from your experience, but your self-awareness also takes a drastic positive change.

Journals:

Entering my teens, I started reading these series called "Diary of a wimpy kid" and "Dork Diaries". As cliche as it sounds, I was infact the kinda kid who would read something like that. And on top of that, I was also the kinda kid who would get inspired by them and start journalling herself. As fate saw, I started being surprisingly punctual at my little hobby which then shaped into a crucial part of my character. It made me a very self-aware person who had a strong grasp of her thoughts and knew how to express them. So as you can imagine, those skills came in pretty handy in my later life as a messed up teen. However, here's something you might not be very aware of:

Our conscious brains aren't nearly as smart as our subconscious, and believe it or not, most of our life's decisions are also being controlled by our subconscious (As proposed by physician Derek Muller). Our subconscious interferes in all aspects of our life and shapes our reality in a way that keeps us convinced that we're in control.

Writing down your thoughts allows our subconscious to truly articulate how our life is going and thus, it seamlessly starts helping you sort your life out.

Upgrading to a blog:

As I proceeded through my early adulthood, life continued becoming more and more complex for my over-worked brain to handle.

With social media glorifying mental illnesses and novels idealizing messed up fictional characters, I started losing focus. Journalling got replaced with mindless scrolling through social media. However, as life kept unfolding and new thoughts kept sprouting in my busy brain, I still craved to put it down somewhere.

I still considered thoughts an asset I needed to protect. So, I kept writing; not in a journal though. I wrote things down on my rough register, at the back of my books, in my phone's notes app and whatnot. It became my coping mechanism. While my fellow troubled minds found solace in reading, sketching or talking to friends, I decided to take comfort in writing.

Aimed benefits:

As previously mentioned, writing down your thoughts allows you to become more self-aware. Giving a concrete form to every thought that passes your brain sub-consciously gives you a sense of self-approval which illuminates your path to self-love.

This habit apparently feels like a waste of time; but what you're actually doing while writing a journal is giving an organized form to chaotic thoughts.

A surprisingly large number of ambitious people end up losing any purpose to life because they let their thoughts run away. Especially in today's rapid world, with each spin of the globe, your mind is reset to default; If you don't catch your ideas as soon as they originate, you'll lose them.

Why not just keep it to yourself?

If you consider it objectively, it sounds like a pretty dumb idea to present your entire personality for public view. It seems counter-intuitive to decide to write personal thoughts online; It seems like an invitation to embarrassment. But here's my take on that: First of all, I would obviously never write anything too personal here......duh. Secondly, my desire to present myself (or my work) online is a natural one. I'm not saying this out of vanity, but I truly believe my thoughts and my work is worth presenting to the world.

As smug as it sounds, I think everyone, regardless of their achievements, has a responsibility of contributing whatever they can to the world. Even the dumbest idea and the most useless piece of work needs to be shared with the world.

So here I am, presenting myself and my trivial work. I could be doing this on Instagram or twitter, but I feel like these platforms sort of forces people to look at you. It's a barter system... ... ...I follow you, so you'll follow me; I watch your stories, so you'll watch mine; I pretend you're interesting, so you'll pretend I am; I make you feel important, so you'll make me feel important.

That at least is the case among my peers. Thus, I decided to not be a part of that delusion. I don't follow no one I'm not interested in, and I won't be low-key forcing anyone to follow me either. If you're interested in me, you'll somehow find my blog.