Just Because I Can
Had dinner with my good friend Ryan tonight. We talked about all my blogging endeavors since he is a wonderfully dedicated reader when he isn’t swamped with grad school work. He mentioned a lot of different things, and said, “I don’t know about all this lifestyle design stuff.”
To be honest, I don’t either. I don’t fully buy into it all, but when you live a life differently than everyone around you it makes sense to try to catch a phrase that tries to describe it. Lifestyle design might not be the closest, but I definitely am not someone who can work a regular 9 to 5 job and be satisfied with that. I suppose when I speak to people in real life I just explain that I am self-employed and trying to build my own business as a freelance writer.
Online, I feel like I most closely relate to those in the lifestyle design niche rather than the freelance writers or other groups. Perhaps that is just my own thinking that I need to identify with anyone at all. That is probably the most likely case of all. I’m not trying to build followers or anything, I’m just trying to figure out my own way. And I suppose in that this is a sometimes lonely path of working online, I’m trying to find people who are doing similar things. Maybe I really don’t need to, all I need to do is keep living my crazy life and being awesome. Just because I can.
But just because I’m trying to be a writer online and make at least part of my living that way doesn’t make me that different. It is as much of a job if not more than what many people I know have. I am constantly thinking about it, coming up with articles and blog posts I can write. But even though it is a job it still feels like just an extension of me and what I would be doing naturally anyway. Basically it doesn’t feel like work. And that is something that is hard to explain to people. But it seems a lot easier to explain to the people who write and live lifestyle design because they are the ones out there doing what they love and what feels natural (most of them).
writing is definitely not a job job… im always writing blogs in my head..only half ever make it to getting written down, because i dont have time to get them into the computer and i forget them lol. its awesome if you can make $ doing it too!
Well, writing can be a job or it can be a hobby. That is like anything. Playing basketball can be your job or it can be a hobby you revert to on the weekends. I want writing to be my job, so I’m working on making that happen. :)