There isn’t
much difference between life and blogging. You do what you do, there are people
who see it, express their opinions and there are people who give negative
remarks about it and try to take you down. The only difference is there is a
whole world of people reading your blog and the audience to whom you express
yourself is much larger.
I have
been blogging since years and actively blogging for BlaberBlogger.com since a
couple of months and everyday has been a whole new day to learn something or
the other and negative comments has been one good thing that actually helped me
climb my stairways to learning. As a human being, mixed with all imperfections
and faults, I have had made a lot of mistakes and difference in opinions while
I expressed myself through this blog and negative comments has always helped me
to learn about my mistakes and be a better blogger. That’s how life is, making
mistakes and learning from them and the same has been with blogging.
I remember
couple of months ago, I wrote this blog post, 22 Reasons You Should Never VisitDarjeeling, which was a sarcastic post, where I appreciated Darjeeling and
promoted tourism in Darjeeling in a sarcastic way and the post went viral over
the internet. Don’t judge a book by its cover and an incomplete knowledge is a
dangerous thing and well, there were a lot of people who did judge the blog
post by its title, even without reading the post or just incompletely
misunderstanding the message being delivered by the blog post. Yes, the blog
post received a lot of positive comments which made me feel quite flattered but
there were few negative comments from people, mostly Anonymous, with hate
messages and some really insensitive comments. Just within a day I posted this
post, there were showers of flattering comments which made me feel good, the
negative comments made me feel a little down and bad as this is how human
emotions work.
But soon I realized
that it was a stepping stone in my journey of blogging. One cannot expect all
good things happening without any set back in life, as it was the same with
blogging. Every negativity that comes makes you decide to either you wanna be
stuck where you are or change and motivate yourself to be a better person and
in this case a better blogger.
As a
blogger, typing my words in front of a computer screen, sometimes I forget that
I am communicating and expressing myself to a huge audience out there so every
word I post means something. The best way in my experience to be a better
blogger is to be who you are and express yourself truly how you feel but making
sure that in the process, your opinions and views don’t hurt anybody’s
sentiments.
It’s a natural
thing that there are always going to be people who would disagree with what you
say or going to look for little reasons to poke you when you’re blogging and
the same is with life. Just make sure that, you analyze yourself as a viewer,
as a reader for how your post in your blog appears, and if you think its okay
and no harm would be done then go ahead and post it. What actually matters is
that you’re being yourself, you’re sure you don’t have any harmful or hurtful
intentions and your words don’t create any problem, and when you’re sure about
it, then it doesn’t matter and you could always go ahead with whatever you are
doing.
Blogging is performing in front of a crowded
audience and there will be a crowd cheering for you and there will be another
crowd, passing nasty comments and making fun of you. It’s up to you to convince
yourself how you take those comments as and do your best at what you do, and
someday that crowd screaming bullies as you, surely will be cheering for you as
well.
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