Well the short answer is: A waste of money
I don’t have a clear picture of what I actually want to do in life, which means I don’t have a clear, concise, or consistent presence on any form of social media, let alone a niche. Although I see the use of them I’m against the idea that you need a niche to be successful. I mean, I know the idea is you need one for success. I personally think you shouldn’t have to have a niche. It’s just not sustainable since people have different areas of interest and their tastes change over time, though that is a different issues.
I’ve never really known what this blog should be about and I often get discouraged with the lack of exposure or response I get on my posts. It doesn’t work well for consistency and success. I actually started this blog as an off-shoot of an assignment for this weird half-class I had to take my first year of college because I did a study abroad program. Since then I’ve had scattered posts but nothing real and nothing recent. I have this issue that when I do create something I want to almost hoard it in hopes of actually publishing it someplace not run by me. Or I start something that would be a great post here but never finish it because a voice whispers “nothing will come of it” and “no one will see it;” A problem I have in a lot of areas of my life.
So my blog goes relatively unseen, unused, with no vision, rhyme, or reason to seemingly any part of it beyond my obsession with Alice in Wonderland and Cat’s. Both of which will inevitably finds it’s way to all of my social media and equivalent mediums at some point or another.
Beyond that, this often feels like the many times I failed at journaling.. Only not journaling? It’s some amalgamation of journaling, reflecting, educating, and creating which always falls off the mark of what a ‘blog’ should be; whatever this elusive ‘blog’ thing is anyway. I’ve never been one for reading blogs consistently so it’s doubly strange that I have one but explains my lack of awareness or strong desire to do it properly.
So why do I still have a blog?
The simple answer: I don’t fully know.
The longer one: Part of me doesn’t want to get rid of it. It’s almost nothing and no one sees it and I hardly ever update it, but there’s this small idea that it could be more. And even though I think that’s never going to happen, every post on here is at least a small bit of.. something… that I shared with the world. It doesn’t matter that it’s old, that it isn’t the best quality, that I might not remember it: I still did it. I did this thing, took this trip, had this idea, and I actually got it down in some concrete format that other people could see.
I have a lot of ideas. I come up with a lot of concepts in various areas of interest on various platform and I almost never write them down for myself let alone do them. So even if it’s few and far between, I like having this record of some of those few things I have done.
I also just really don’t want to lose my domain name because I love it.
Carlisle In Wonderland 