How NOT to write your FIRST Blog
By: Sparsh Dutta
Tags: Boring, Blog, First Post, Blogging, Lazy

Whoa! Look at that, someone’s here to read a blog! You have no idea how much I am scared right now. As I write this, I have already started to second guess whether this is my cup of tea…

….well I drink coffee :(

Your POV when you read the above line I just blurted out

I can picture myself starting out to write a few blogs and knowing that down the line, I’ll struggle to write a blog either due to my massive fan following or just to cure my boring time into a productive time instead of binging on random Netflix documentaries (I am looking at you 😉, I know you watch em’ too).

Enough bullshit, coming straight to the questions you might have in your head right now.

Is this my First Blog? Am I a blogging expert? Do I read a lot of Blogs? Why am I even blogging? Who the hell am I? Why are you even here?

If you didn’t have any questions before you came to this blog, well the last question is definitely for you then. To answer that, you are here so that you can flex to your peers, parents and that nosy relative that you are reading blogs now instead of watching Instagram reels and TikTok for hours. I know you do watch those crazy GenZ trends 🙃.

Ah! Look at you all smiling with existential crisis :)

Sorry, I zoned out for a while remembering my days looking at kids lip-syncing to songs and me with a face of a sleeping sloth just scrolling :(.

Wish we all looked this cool while mindlessly scrolling 🙃

So yeah, this is my very FIRST blog and sure as hell I am not a blogging expert. Well pretty sure you had already guessed by now. I don’t even read that many blogs! The only time I ever read blogs is when I am stuck in a place without my earphones and have to eliminate my social anxiety by fiddling with my phone.

Remember when you randomly read an article or took those weird Facebook quizzes on “Which Marvel character are you?” and occasionally visited some blogs and stopped it halfway because you got bored with it just to avoid interacting with people around you?

See!!!!! I knew this is relatable! I can’t be the only dumbass in the world right :P!

Now to the most important question, WHY AM I EVEN BLOGGING?

There’s just one big fat reason!

Trust me! wrote this with my mouse, Efforts 100!

I hand-wrote it for you to emphasise the major reason why I am here talking to you shamelessly. Also, maybe you are here for the same reason too!

Did you also just see a youtube video/blog/article about passive income or developing a hobby that can financially help you as well so that you can buy a big screen now to scroll through Instagram and be financially independent and all those other buzz words?

Well, if you did and had seen blogging on the list….and somehow Google suggested you my link through its weird algorithm or some friend of yours shared the link, then my friend! We both are in deep shit right now xD!

THANK YOU! If you have reached till here! This is your checkpoint, you can leave from here and take that BuzzFeed quiz or else just follow along for maybe more relatable shit.

But there’s a second reason too, and that’s the real thing y’all!

Do something purely just because you want to do it!

You don’t have to worry if it’s great or not! It is great! It is great for you so just put your head back in and do it. Do what you always wanted to do, if you want to motivate someone, go ahead, do it, if you want to open a youtube channel on cooking, do it! take that step 1. I always stalled writing while I was in college thinking about the aftermaths of publishing my first blog and all sorts of things, but trust me, now I regret not starting out earlier when I had more leisure time and I spent the day sleeping in my room.

But how do you know if you have an “Interest” in blogging? Well, most people actually don’t unless they start. I won’t be that internet guy who’s gonna motivate you about life and things like that because I am just a 22-year-old dude typing gibberish in here. All I can say is, if you want to do something, just do it, there’s no extra good you would do for yourself if you don’t. I love typing, for real! I just love typing, floating my fingers over the keyboard. Damn! That’s the best stressbuster for me and also I love stories, and have been doing so for 8–9 years now, but never had the guts to publish them.

And thus, since this blog might go long and I know people might wanna leave reading so I’ll just culminate with a few words. I am starting a series of blogs that would just highlight the experiences I have faced and similar ones which people might have faced while starting out on a thing, could be their first project, first investment, first developmental project, and what not! The list goes on! I know many people like me Google on “how to write your first blog” or “How to start a cooking channel” and things like that. Consider this as an experiment where you and I just dive into things we love or we might love soon without googling first and make some worth of the lazy time we pass on scrolling through social media. I do believe in risk analysis but you know, utilizing lazy time, doing something rather than nothing won’t do much harm right? Also, have fun while you’re at it, don’t stress out.

I know you didn’t find anything much value whilst reading this, but as time progresses and I write more, things would resonate to you more and probably also give some information adding value to your day. It’s been great talking to you and I hope you start that thing you always wanted. Just like this blog, it can turn out to be absolutely shit or absolutely amazing.

We are in this together :D

Well, I am too tired now to type anymore, I better go and watch Netflix now :).

Oh, by the way, I didn’t introduce myself. Well, I am a software engineer (Expect some coding tutorials, fun projects and development jargon coming soon) by day and a lazy guy by night who’s thinking of starting to blog just to utilize the time he otherwise would have spent playing games or watching stupid shit. As I start out on this journey, I want you to start as well with something you always wanted to do, it could be something you think has a lot of potentials to make money and you might not have much interest in it particularly, don’t get guilt-tripped into it, please. You don’t have to do something only out of interest, you can just do things with purely the intention of just trying it. If you are someone who’s gonna start something new, drop me a mail or even comment below or just you know smile for me :). I hope to see you more someday reading my stupid blogs if I write more ( lol :P ) and whenever you forget your earphones in public places.

Cheers to all the fellow bloggers, blog readers, and the “earphones-forgetter”