That catchy title caught my eye on this morning newspaper, when I was waiting for my coffee.
Does Blogging make me happy? How about you? No one can answer this better than yourself, of course.
But why would blogging make us happy?
Depends on your motivation for blogging and its impact on your life, then you may answer a “No” to that question.
Your answer can be a No if:
- You want to make money from blogging but fail to see it coming or it’s below your expectations
- You need your blog as a marketing tool for your business, whatever that is, and it’s not delivering
- Your blogging life is destroying your family and social life
- Your blog is constantly being spammed with discouraging comments such as “Your blog sux to the max”, “You must be a 13 year old kid”, etc.
- …. fill in the blank here
From the newspaper, some bloggers claim their lives are much happier after blogging, mostly because they can interact with “strangers” (other fellow bloggers and readers) and find some sort of acceptance in the society. Funny though, that none mention about making money lol.
Comes down to it, if you are successful in blogging (“success” here is pretty relative and subjective), your life must have been somewhat happier than before.
Human beings are selfish and we always want to be accepted in the society, to be popular/well-know, and mostly, to show that we are better than the others. I have that thoughts and feelings too sometimes. Besides, who will frown if a reader writes a comment to you to tell you how nice you really are? Or how great your blog is?
Blogging does make me happier in some sense. Why it makes me “happier”:
- Interact with great new people online
- Improves my English writing skills. Try reading my first blog posts
- Gives me some sort of achievement feeling
- I used to hate writing, but I like it now (weird)
- I like tweaking stuffs, and changing themes have been a challenge for me, yet fun
- Gives me something to do rather than just wasting my leisure time playing games
- Gives me a nice income and hoping to get more ^^
- I like teaching people (as long as they do their part too – listen, remember, and try before they ask)
- I love to help people out and this passion can be poured out on my posts easily
Does blogging make you happy?
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Blogging was a godsend to me mostly because it gives me a creative outlet for all my retirement time, but more importantly because I’ve come into contact with people that expose me to more in life.
It’s important to understand that there are people and “things” that are larger and more important than yourself.
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Blogging makes me happy to a certain extent, but like the points you listed, it’s more about the interactions that I get with other people, “strangers” I suppose, that make it all more enjoyable.
I used to hate writing as well
but now when I started my blog and started reading more books, my writing has improved a little bit, at least it doesn’t take 5 hours anymore for a small post ^^ I have to agree with your list what makes me happy, but also, my php and CSS skills is improving 
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I agree with you Michael, now i’m looking for more friend..blogger, reader..that will make me happy more
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i use to spend hours on thinking before writing anything (250 or 300 words) but now its fun writing anything and everything (even if its more then 1000 words) and meeting new people across the world is added bonus it feels like parallel world now
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It definitely makes me happier! It’s an outlet for frustration and a creativity workout.
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no not at all .
i know i can spend my time much better than staring at the computer monitor , but it’s already happy with my daily life anyway [ blogging for about 5 years ]
it’s like addiction
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I guess we are all on the same boat here
It used to take me hours too to post a good post. It still is, sometimes, but the hours are so much less. I still rely on my MS Word’s Grammar and Spelling checker though, lol
Ameo: 5 years? Wow! I’m still on my first year of blogging
Yes it does when I publish at least 2 new blogs a day and we have not missed, but once and that was intentional. It’s when I don’t publish a blog I get down.
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Wow. I guess it’s a good thing as it motivates you to blog more to maintain a good level of happiness