Looking back at my flomo records, searching with the keyword "blog," I can find some of my thought processes:
- I feel like my weekly reports are just keeping a record of daily activities.
However, I really don't have much to write about. I feel that recording what happens each week is a good way, but long-term daily records make me a bit annoyed. Articles should have substance, at least indicating a central theme. Simply presenting my life, posting a few photos with my watermark, and focusing more on the images rather than the text itself seems to lose a bit of the original value of a blog.
- Why do we write blogs in the first place?
Most people who write blogs say they write for themselves, but who can truly achieve that? Readers' praise and search engine traffic are slowly changing our writing styles. Even if no one directly tells you, "I want to see this," you still write to satisfy the imagined needs of readers. It's time to cut losses, even if it means making a "decision against tradition."
- What motivates us to write blogs?
So I began to reassess myself. What was my initial motivation for writing a blog? Using the 2P method, there should be two:
- Continuously output valuable content
- Record the bits and pieces of my life, forming my own "snapshot"
- Complaints
After being in this circle for a long time, you start to feel that these people have issues.
To be honest, I’m a bit disgusted by the group of independent bloggers.
I don’t like self-righteous communication.
One of the reasons for my lack of updates is that "keeping a record of daily activities" is a relatively important reason. What did I do this week? What interesting things happened? What photos did I take? It feels like it’s always the same routine, so what’s the point of it all?
Of course, there is meaning. Our thoughts often jump around too much. Just like seeing a bare arm and immediately associating it with a series of things, seeing the term "daily record" also brings to mind some negative connotations, making it seem bad.
But I still want to ask, is it really like that? Is a daily record truly useless? How do you define a daily record?
Let’s not delve into the original meaning of the term (I’m just too lazy to sort it out). Words often associated with daily records include: "tedious," "boring," "uninteresting," "lacking thought." These words can be considered necessary conditions for an article to be labeled as a "daily record," but note that they are not sufficient conditions.
Why do we fear daily records? Essentially, it’s the worry that what we write will be deemed boring or balabala. As long as it’s not boring, as long as there are readers (including ourselves), and as long as readers find it interesting (which indeed happens; I often discover that I’ve experienced such interesting moments when I look back), that’s enough.
Legend has it that there was a country where the people had very poor memories, often forgetting what happened just a second ago. So they came up with a solution: they carried a pen with them at all times, constantly recording.
You would find that the people in this country are particularly interesting in conversations; while speaking, they are also writing and occasionally glancing at what they’ve written.
You might feel sorry for them because our memories are strong enough to remember many important things in life.
But I would rather be one of those people from that country because I want to keep records and look back at them anytime.
Of course, this story is something I made up, haha.