My 100th Attempt at Blogging
This is probably my hundredth attempt at starting a personal blog, and it didn’t start today, but all the way back in the summer of 2009. That’s when I set up my first Blogspot blog, wrote a single post, and then moved over to Facebook.
Over the years, I tried a few more blogs on Blogspot, but every time, I only got as far as the first post.
In late 2012, I gave WordPress a try. I created a free blog, and then a few more, but again, I never published anything. Each time, I got stuck, trying to make everything perfect.
Meanwhile, in 2015, I launched a news site that turned out to be very successful, with millions of monthly visitors. But it wasn’t personal, and I mostly wrote what people wanted to read. Maybe that’s why I got a bit professionally biased, and now it’s hard for me to write without wondering if people will like it.
That’s a barrier that sometimes keeps me from expressing my true thoughts.
One of my biggest issues is that I’m a perfectionist, and I always want to create the perfect blog, with the ideal colors, fonts, posts, and images. Of course, I realize that such a blog can’t really exist. Every day, I design several CSS templates that look nice, but I can never pick the “perfect” one.
This is my perfectionism talking.
This time, though, I decided to start a blog and not stop at the first post, but to write only about my personal stuff.