The overthinking blogger
Originally published on another blog of mine, which is no longer online. The two blogs have since been merged here on robertbirming.com.
I’m dragging my feet when it comes to writing this post. Or rather, publishing it.
Not because I find it embarrassing (well, okay, maybe a little). But mostly because I’ve touched on this topic so many times before that it’s starting to feel boringly repetitive.
If you’ve followed my blogging for a while, you already know what it’s about: my ambivalence about blogging.
On one hand, I love blogging. On the other hand, I never quite seem to figure out how I want to do it. My thoughts keep spinning in circles:
Should I really be writing in English? If I switch to Swedish, maybe WordPress would be the better option? Or maybe I should just use Micro.blog for microblogging and go back to my old favorite, Bear, for longer posts? That would also give me a creative outlet with my Bearming theme. Or maybe I should just upgrade my current Micro.one account so I can create a custom theme on this platform?
And on it goes. Not constantly, but in waves. And right now I’m definitely in one of those waves.
I know it sounds quite crazy, and I get that it might not be the most exciting thing to read about. But writing it out always makes me feel a little better.
Maybe it all stems from some vague, subconscious, and unreachable idea of what blogging should accomplish. Maybe it’s the ghost of my early days as a professional blogger still haunting me.
I truly want to blog just for the joy of it, and I think that’s what I’m doing. But all this unnecessary overthinking keeps making me question it. Again and again and again.
Maybe I just need to accept that my blogging will always be a bit of a never-ending dance between platforms and languages.
I don't know.