Wednesday 1 April 2015

Why Do I Blog?



This is a question people often as me. 
I first started blogging just after having my transplant as I no energy to do a lot so to keep my mind active I started to write this blog. One of the main reasons was because I had a wide community of family and friends who were asking me what had happened and wanted me to explain to them in a lot more detail. I don't want to blow my own trumpet but I was receiving around 20 inbox messages a day...miss popular I know! I thought to myself, why not write a blog everyone can read and access themselves rather than repeating myself a lot of times. 
Never in a million years did I think my blog would be such a success and I didn't expect to enjoy writing it as much as I do! My unexpected enjoyment in blogging has driven me to continue writing about
living with side effects of cancer treatment and also about normal things I enjoy to do. My main aim is to raise awareness of cancer in young adults as before being a patient myself, I thought that the only people effected by the evil C were either really old or very young. 
I have learned so much about cancer and myself by creating this blog and continue to do my part and raise as much awareness as possible!
 I love to look back on previous posts to see how far I have come and reflect on how much has happened each year. 
Many people have said to me 'why don't you see if you can receive an earning to blog.' but personally I blog as a hobby and feel that If I was being paid to write or received an income from my blog then it wouldn't be the hobby that I love so much... It may change me from writing for a hobby and enjoying to write when I like it to feeling the need to post all the time...does that make sense?
Bloggers out there...what motivates you to write your blog?

1 comment:

  1. I first started blogging just after having my transplant as I had little energy to do a lot so to keep my mind active I started to write this blog. Never in a million years did I think my blog would be such a success and I dint expect to enjoy writing it as much as I do!

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