Figuring Out What To Blog About

What if you didn’t know how to start a blog, what to write about? Are blogs about..just our

thoughts..or to inform? Do we journal just to write down our thoughts? Essay? Op Ed? Earlier on when blogging was becoming popular I thought it was just a meant to express and share our thoughts, only to find it was a means to share our knowledge, an article on a certain subject of interest, and/or expertise.

I love to write, I think I’m a pretty decent writer and have wanted, for years to blog as a career I I discovered I needed to ‘build’ something, kind of like building a business if I wanted to do it for income.

I didn’t have any areas of expertise but there were SO many things on my mind, daily where I want to express my opinion. Isn’t that what social media’s for? I guess it’s not quite enough..unless someone creates a platform to monetize their own Facebook posts. Hmmm..

If I said that to my friends, that I didn’t have any areas of expertise, they’d try to pump me up ( I have great friends) and tell me, ‘ well you were in the mental health care industry for almost 20 years, at the same company? I’d say, not much to tell there, I was just doing clerical work but for me to talk about it on a grander scale? I never felt as though I had enough of that knowledge. I could more so talk about the workplace environment there and how dysfunctional, even toxic it was. I’ve done that enough and for long enough, at times I really don’t want to return to that..at this juncture.

My friends would also say, well ,you drove rideshares for a year or two, I’d say yeah that wasn’t for that long to make that big an impression..to discuss. The ‘impression’ was made driving for the food delivery apps which I did start writing about since those gig jobs for me created a lot of difficulty in a tumultuous time in my life. They made me aware of traffic and road conditions which I did write about, the low pay to drive far for one order (the customers unawareness) how these apps function, car problems I often didn’t have money to fix.

People may also tell me , you cared for your elderly father with MS at home, finding care for him we couldn’t afford and then went through the process of getting him into a nursing home and the financial and legal escapades we had to endure. I don’t want to reexamine that at this time, either. Been there, done that.

I’ve tried to start blogging about my expeditions in nature, going for walks in local areas but have gotten nowhere. I mean to return to that at some point as it is something that is very important to me and I enjoy, love to share. 500 million photos in my phone and social media(s). Well,not quite that many but..

Along with my love for nature is that for animals, pets. I’ve started working in the pet care industry, particularly walking dogs whom I love and am obsessed with. Due to injuries and perhaps old age I’ve had to cut down the ones I walk to two and I am still, always seeing other pet care jobs that don’t require as much walking. Hence I could talk about aging, which I’ve recently realized is happening to me, a bit about pet care..

I don’t know what to start blogging about, again. My mind goes everywhere all the time. ]

Doesn’t yours?