..and I was different.
"He is weird," said my seniors, tone redolent with mockery. And nicknames began. I have now lost count of the names. There are many, and it reached my home. My single mother was worried about who I was going to be. Though...
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Today, the blogging world has flourished by leaps and bounds. The world has introduced us to people of immense talent storming the internet with masterpiece articles or blogs that we have relate with, laugh at, cry with.
The money associated with blogging is alluring, attracting people with even a little talent to step into blogging. No matter who you are, what your success story is, we all have experienced a bit reluctance from our friends and relatives in getting views for our blogs.
You spam their Whatsapp; beg them to read, "Please, just read it once. Please!", but you rarely get appreciation and sometimes you aren't even graced with a reply. It happens. Some of your friends even don't bother to go to your blog, and even if you are persistent enough to ask them, just again and again, you just get a view but not a read.
Most of us end up in thinking that strangers are better than the friends that you have accumulated over all these years.
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t however doesn't extend to everyone, but I sum up reasons as why your friends are your least enthusiastic supporters at the beginning of your blogging experience:
1. It is a sheer wastage of time
Some of your friends might be thinking that your blogs and blogging is a sheer wastage of time. Who is going to be reading your blog of several hundred words that contain nothing but rants? "Opinions don't pay bills," they are thinking. But success stories like Zoella, Huffington Post are the examples that you can do it. If not, it is a good exercise for aspiring writers.
2. You can't make a career out of it.
It is believed that blogging and other internet-y careers are worthless. There is a herd struggling to stand out, and that is absolutely right. But competition should work to motivate us rather than to depress us. And if we know how to hit the cord right, maybe we can turn the tables.
3. They know nothing about the blogging world.
This is the simplest reason ane the reason I want to be The Reason. (Unfortunately, it's not). Some people really are oblivious of the science behind the blogging world. They might read your blog, tell you their real opinion, but something is really out of their hands. They can't help you in things they know nothing about.
4. They find your blog not worthy.
Oops! You aren't that great writer you think you are. But that doesn't mean you don't deserve all that respect and support from your friends. Constructive criticism is what is required. What their work should be is to tell you where you lack.
5. They are jealous, umm!
This is my favourite reason. They are jealous of your growth that you can manage the whole thing on your own, and you have left them awestruck.
This was my approach to why you don't get support from your friends in your initial days of start-up. If you have any other reason, please tell me in the comments below!
