Socien's Blog

I wrote a detail on how I became a blogger. On someone’s website, I came across an About section telling us about his journey and I adopted the same approach. Shortly, I will edit my About section if I make any new advances. I am looking forward to attracting as much organic traffic. I also intend to make videos out of many of my articles. That will be a double-edged sword: earnings and traffic.

Why do I blog? I always lament. Advice we get mostly is like a prediction made by an economist. “In the year 2000, Japan’s Economy will be well above that of the US.” This prediction hits the Wall Street Journal in the 1980s. But it is wrong. Japanese industry failed. Hardware makers like Sony failed to expand into new product categories or to develop good software for their products as did American companies like Apple that were once tiny in comparison to them. The population aged. Strict immigration policies and nationalism inhibited new talents from countries like Vietnam from jumping onto the floating raft of Japan.

The reason I am inviting the example of Japan is that I was once on the wrong side of people I categorise as predictor criticises. When I said I wanted to start a blog in 2016, some people who had an idea that it meant I had to write some stuff,  suggested that I find something else to do. I had passed English GCSE on my third sitting, three years after my first sitting. The had done an autopsy on my current performance and it was clear to them that I wasn’t a blogger type.

I might say I try hard to be born again each day I wake up. Never let anyone tell you how far you have been engineered to go. Unlike a vehicle, you are never judged by the specs that you come out of the factory with. With each second passing, should you choose, you can twerk yourself for the better. With each second passing, should you choose, you can clutter yourself for the worse.

Compound effect, stuff.

Blogging makes me feel like I am doing a thing I was never meant to do. It’s a battle I entered outnumbered by so many odds against me. I see nothing but victory in the past eight years of trying. Without earnings out of it, I still kept on trying. I have written on cardboard, on rooftops while working as a carpenter and using the moon as my light. I never gave up.

Blogging taught me to value these 2C and 1 P: Continuity, consistency and patience. You can’t start blogging while accessing a computer in a public library once a week. I did. You can’t buy a laptop, even the slowest one, while earning $370 a week. I did.

Before you take a look at yourself and wonder how unlucky you have been take a look at your advantages, the luck you have. You are lucky you know you be able to read this article on the screen. Someone is in the jungle in the Congo, he lost his family and he watched a man open a zip of his trousers and force himself on his mom in front of him then took her life shortly after. But you think the world is treating you badly by just losing a job.

Know your other advantages. You can’t use what you don’t have. It is my wish to be blogging on a Mac and throwing sponsored ads all over. But those are not my advantages. I don’t have that. But what I have. I use it until there is nothing left of it. And I know there is never going to be nothing left of it. Even failure is one such of those advantages. I am always given one to reflect on from time to time.