I have blogger's block.
As an update, I DID talk to the CDE about pumping last Wednesday. My paperwork is done and now I am just waiting to hear back from Animas. Dex hasn't called me at all, which is discouraging. I'm going to call them tomorrow. I want the CGMS more than I want the pump, truth be told. I guess I want to be all "cutting edge."
Anyway, the subject at hand.
I've been going through my share of personal issues for quite some time now. I didn't feel they were appropriate to blog about, but they were all I could think about this week. I really began to question why I blog. I started writing several posts. Some were about diabetes and depression, but I felt they were too personal. Others were about why I feel unmotivated recently when it comes to diabetes and weight loss, but I felt those were too complainy, filled with excuses, and too personal.
So I began to wonder what the point of my blog even was.
I think I blog to get my thoughts out there. Yes, part of me wants people to read them. I am kind of a popularity whore, but I really do feel that people feed me and knowing that someone is connecting with me (especially right now when I seem to lack social contact outside school and the interwebs) really does make me feel like I'm making a difference.
I blog because I want others to know my story, in hope that it might somehow help them.
I blog as a creative outlet. I like to post a variety of different types of posts, whether they be short (hardly ever! ha), long, memes, vlogs, or picture-filled. I love variety in all aspects of life and why should my blog be any different?
I think mostly I blog to make a difference. I blog as I'm trying to come up with something better to do in order to help people with diabetes, people in need, people in general, and my own self. (Is that redundant? My Own Self?)
That is why I blog. And that is why I won't let blogger's block stop me from continuing to pursue my dream (vague as it may be right now).
-Sarah
I think you've given some great reasons to blog. There are folks out there that will connect with you and your story, which in turn will help them with their struggles.
ReplyDeleteI think it's also a great way to just get stuff "out there" and off your chest. There's some real value in that. Plus, that equals free therapy! w00t!