Thriving 30, Volume 07: What happens when you create a blog?

Six years ago, I created this writing project to share my experiences, my thoughts and my pure enjoyment of writing. From entries of food & travel to broader real life issues, writing was a way where I can express my feelings creatively. Whenever I reread an old post, I'm overjoyed because I remember exactly how my I felt when I was writing the post — I was so passionate. And secondly, I think to myself who the fuck reads this shit? It felt like work to me because I wanted to present my best work, but at the same time I loved it so much I didn't mind pushing hours for it.

From working in healthcare, pursuing the law, and then recruited to work in asset backed securities, I learned that career choices isn't the only place you can "find your calling". Passion can come from your hobbies and your desire to share it with the world.  I'll never stop writing and sharing my voice to my friends whenever they need it.  l try to remind myself that passion can be in any part of your life, not necessary your career. You are allowed to have more than one passion.  I don't know know if my blog is making a difference, but I know for sure fact my voice is. I want to share my writing with world with the hopes you reading and understanding my experience from my perspective. I've hidden so many personal pieces because I was afraid of being too vulnerable and I was sharing too much of myself to the world. But I had a conversation with a good friend regarding our purpose in this world, which I understand is a topic that is deep. But what is our purpose? How do you find meaning in life? Do we just purely exist? Or are we meant for something greater? What I've learned in the past 6 months is; vulnerability is necessary. It makes us human, it makes us real, and it shows that there's more depth to us than a hustle. We need to be vulnerable to live our lives fully, but just rough enough to survive the crazyass shit that comes along with it.

Before I was writing about a lot of academic pieces, but I realized that people like to read about real life problems, something that is raw, and something that they can resonate with. We are all struggling, dealing with a lot of emotions... and living. For our peers to openly admit that life is extremely difficult makes us feel at ease because we are not alone. I wish society made it easier for us to share our problems. If this cycle continues, we are going to constantly compare our struggles with other's highlight reel. When I read Rupi Kaur's books, she wrote about a lot personal struggles such as feminism, race, rape, and family. She published it! It's on paper that is shared to the world. I've read her books more than twice, and every time I get so emotional. I've to admit I am emotional person, I cry a lot, more than I used to. But I rather cry and express my feelings fully so I'll never regret any moment where I am not living my feelings truthfully. I encourage you to be more open with your emotions so you'll never sell yourself short on how you actually feel. Your feelings, thoughts, opinions matter.