Blogging Makes Me Happy

I can’t remember a time in my life when getting the details of my life down on paper wasn’t the forefront thought in my mind. From the time I learned to write, through my turbulant teenage years, and an even more turbulant marriage at a young age, pen and paper was always there.

Going into my 2nd marriage, and a lifestyle that was the total oppposite of the way I had been living just the year prior, it took some mental adjusting, but again, the pen and paper never failed me. What did fail me was finding the time to do the amount of writing I wanted to do. I went from a life of being totally secluded, no friends, no family, no neighbors, only 2 young boys and a husband who was never there, physically or emotionally for me, to a life of church involvement, employment of 8 or more hours a day, raising 4 children, and then a baby … my writing kind of took a back seat. Not entirely, but not as prevalant.

Discovering the computer world and the internet was wonderful. And a blog? What was a blog? as I quickly found out, it was just an electronic version of what I used to do. Only, I could do it much quicker because I can type much faster than I can write by hand. I learned how to blog. I learned html and how to tweak blog layouts, and I finally found contentment with my writing, and my life.

Through blogging, I have been able to discover a creative side of me, that has nothing to do with the written word. I have met some wonderful people — some we have been able to actually meet in real life. Others, are still miles and miles away, but still close to me in heart.

And then. There is that paid blogging thing. I know it took the blogging community and the internet by storm. Lots of controversy. But, to many of us, it was a dream come true. We were able to do the thing we had always loved to do … and advertisers were interested in what we had to say. I do not see doing paid blogging as selling my writer’s soul. I see it as another layer to what I do every day anyway. They say money can’t buy you happiness. And in many respects, they are right. But, blogging, and everything I have included in my blogging life, does … make me happy.

A picture is worth a million words, right? Let me share a few millions words with you about my love for blogging, and specifically, why it makes me happy.