Explanation for my previous blogging hiatus: My mother once told me, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, don’t say anything at all.
At a turning point in our lives, we must all ask ourselves whether we are truly happy or just complacent with the life we have created.
When I reached that transitional juncture, I resolved to transform my life.
Over the past several months, I was trapped by some grand illusion of what my life was supposed to look like. When you confine yourself to a bubble, you begin to see through the eyes of the bubble. You begin to absorb characteristics, opinions and outlook that the bubble indistinguishably expresses.
You become a carbon copy.
For the first time in my life, I had become unknowingly comfortable with becoming a product of the bubble. I traded individualism for compliments. I traded my soul for acceptance. It took what felt like reaching a plateau in my professional and personal growth for me to get so utterly sick of complacency. And I woke up with disgust to who I had become.
It was time to break free.
Life is a collection of experiences and connections that intertwine in ways far beyond what we may see. When you contain your world to the SAME things, the SAME places and the SAME company, life becomes stale, day-to-day becomes incessant déjà vu, and even the things that once brought you joy leave you empty. As the bubble you live in loses it’s luster, you begin to realize you’ve lost yourself.
When I started to think about why I blog, it dawned on me that I was simply mirroring industry experts—writing to plant myself as as an authoritative voice in the social media marketing landscape. Further exploration into my motives with blogging indisputably pulled me back to the ideal that I find joy in helping others.
It was that one profound thought that freed me. It opened my eyes and allowed me to realize that anything I share on my blog could help someone. That ideal provided reassurance despite unknown paths ahead. That ideal brought me back to my roots.
It was at that point, I eliminated every comfort zone and began chasing the unfamiliar, adventurous, and the “unobtainable”. I recognized that once you take an interest in your own life, you will live an interesting life.
As Robert Frost eloquently phrases in The Road Not Taken, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
Slow down.
Examine your life.
Break the routine.
After all, ”you were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
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