When I decided to blog in solitude, I was fully aware of what it would involve, and I’m fine with it. I don’t mind that few to no one reads my blog. I chose this, and I’m sticking with my decision. I do, however, miss being an audience. I miss reading other people’s blogs and checking my feed reader. Having stream of updates and news from everyone, whether it be about books, their other interests, or their personal life, is what I missed the most during the time I spent in my early years of blogging.

Thankfully, I still have blogs that I follow, mostly personal ones, and I love this kind because it’s intimate (but not intrusive), simple, and quiet. I feel like SNS are all about loud and amazing achievements (nothing wrong, go shout that win!) or doing something trendy, but I love the simplicity of an ordinary life. That slice of life! 🌱

With changes in the social media landscape, particularly Twitter, it feels like I’m losing the little connection to the people I follow too! NGL, I mostly use Twitter to rant and rave about life & society, webtoons & anime (*coughs* Gojo Satoru *coughs*)! But I do read your tweets, moots, or IG posts! I’m just one of those people who types her replies but never gets to send them out because of anxiety and bashfulness! 😊 I used to follow a lot of these people’s blogs, and I miss reading ’em!

This is a topic that I’ve read so much about: Is blogging—or more precisely—is personal blogging dead? Do people still blog? Do people read blogs? Is it dead because it’s not trendy anymore? Because everyone does videos? Podcasts? And reading blogs became a tedious and uncreative platform? Or just the blogs I used to follow just moved on from it, and blogging is still thriving outside of the feed reader I curated for years? That’s what I’m wondering.

If you google “blogging is dead,” the majority will say that it isn’t. But then again, those are for pro, and I’m not a really fan of that; I want something more relatable and personal. Not perfectly created for a specific audience. More about life and the simplicity of it! Whether that’s about your new notebook, favorite read, or new snack you’ve tried, nothing beats life in its simplest form: being celebrated and shared. And that’s probably the reason why blogging has remained relevant in my life.