The million dollar question of the decade – is blogging really dead?
Which, of course, I didn’t have the answer to because to me blogging is and will always be the dearest hobby of mine. It’s part of my personality. It’s ingrained deep in my soul. It could be my middle name for all I care because I don’t know what life is if I didn’t have my blog in it. Creating a blogger account on that mere evening of November 2008 was one of the best decision I’ve ever made for myself. I have evolved as a person and my blog is the digital proof of it. My blog now isn’t what it used to be 16 years ago and I’m glad that it changes with each version of me. It has been with me for more than half of my life and I want it to stay until I grow older and perhaps, a little bit wiser.
I haven’t been the best with regurgitating posts in the recent years, and I wish I could go back and do a monthly catchup post so I can look back through my archives of what life has been. Maybe I could go through my Instagram stories archives and planners and create backdated posts of monthly summaries but that would take an extensive research and about a few months of work to do. I’m not sure if I am up to it, although it certainly would make me feel like I have never left.
For the past few days, I have been spending hours daily on blog maintenance. I managed to scheduled three posts in a day and I even updated new blogs I stumbled upon on a secondary blog that I use to keep track with blogs I’m following. What I can say is there are a lot of inactive blogs out there and I just wish everyone would come back again to this community but I know with the rapid growth of TikTok and Instagram, keeping up with a blog would be the lowest on anyone’s priority list – including mine, just not long ago. I only managed to come back because I know I always need a medium for my thoughts that I need to put into writing no matter what. I’m that person who writes a heck of a long caption on Instagram stories – I think I’ve always known that I needed to come back to my blog.
My blog certainly need a little bit of refresh and I have been searching high and low for the perfect WordPress theme but to my dismay (and to my bank account’s sigh of relief), I haven’t found any that would fit my budget and aesthetic. There were some exquisite ones, but oh boy I am not spending RM500 for a blog theme. At least, not now. However, I am still quite happy with my current theme, therefore, I have just been tweaking bits here and there to make it even more refined and fresher that its previous version. I still have a long way to go in terms of updating my About and Contact page and editing my old blog posts and streamlining my categories and tags, but for now, I am quite happy with how it’s looking. Be sure to check out my blog regularly because this gal right here… is back! x
