My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. – John 15:12-13
Today is a day of reflecting on my blogging journey as I participate on this lovely hop hosted by two of the most amazing ladies I’ve met in the blogosphere—Bonnie and Mary.
Truth be told, I had a dramatic start to blogging in December 2010…I was having a rough time in my life…I was at the peak of depression…I took a leave of absence from med school, hid myself from the world…I felt like nobody really understood what I was going through…I felt totally alone…Looking back, my life was in a blur at that time…And the only word I found appropriate to define myself was “useless.”
The only friend I thought I had was my journal.I wrote there all my thoughts and feelings without holding back anything…Sorrow, anger, worries, insecurities…All forms of negativity that flooded my brain and conquered my heart.But…At the end of every entry I wrote in my journal…Came a part where I ponder on those negativity…And the lesson/s that can be learned from what I wrote came out naturally as I concluded another journal entry for the day.Then I told myself, Why not blog and share what I am learning from my experiences?Who knows you might be able to help other people who are going through the same thing…And maybe somehow, I could eliminate the word “useless” from my qualities.So Soft Voice Of A Free Spirit (the first name I gave my blog) was born…And that’s where it all began…
But somewhere along the way…I discovered that it wasn’t enough to publish a blog post in order to be found by other people in the internet…What with the thousands of other blogs and websites that abound cyberspace…I learned that I needed to do a little networking to be heard…This was the first step.And this step took me “miles.”
I stumbled upon numerous blogging communities…And did my best to connect with other bloggers.But connections came and went by so swiftly.
Until one day, the very kind and thoughtful Corinne asked me to join this group called Blogplicity…And blogging for me has never been the same…Except that it made the experience way more meaningful.My Blogplicity friends have been there for me at one dark moment in my life…That instance, I can truly say, was enough to prove to me that online friends are real…And that you don’t really have to have come across a person in real life in order for that person to make a huge impact in your life…To make you feel supported, cared for, and loved…
I’ve been blogging for more than a year now…And I am still enjoying the new friendships that I am able to make both through Blogplicity and outside Blogplicity.
Suddenly the world showed me that I wasn’t all alone…And suddenly I was absolutely certain that I wasn’t “useless” after all…
Thank you so much for the friendship… *hug*God bless.:-)
Linking with Bongo is Me and Living With Allergies And Celiac Disease