Blogging and Real Life

I thought I'd write an article about blogging and real life. Where does blogging fit into "real life". How much time does one set aside for blogging? How do you fit blogging into your real life? These are questions I have asked myself because I notice that I may be addicted to blogging. I notice also, that my partner seems to be majorly addicted to blogging as well. Even more than I am myself.

I’ve watched him. He comes home from work, takes off his coat and boots, heads to the bathroom and then directly heads to the computer. He’s lucky, I cook dinner. He blogs till dinner and then he’s got to wash the dishes. If there’s any time before our favourite TV show, he is back on the computer again.

Me, I wake up early in the morning and I head directly for the coffee machine to make my latte, drink my latte and then check my emails. I can’t do much in the morning except check my email accounts and then it’s a mad dash for work. I take my laptop to work and then during my lunch, I attend to some blogging matters, whether it`s checking my stats, re-writing an article for submission to the article directories or doing some research for a new article or actually writing an article for one of my blogs.

During the week, I don't get much time for blogging, but come the weekend, both my partner and I are heavy duty blogging, writing, reading, researching, checking emails, finding back links or whatever. We fit into our weekends of blogging somewhere: groceries, housework, eating, sleeping, maybe running a few errands, but blogging basically takes precedent over everything.

Sometimes, I think this is ridiculous. Thank god, I don't have any babies to take care of – it would probably mean that my children would be confiscated by the authorities for a lack of neglect. People at work ask me on Mondays what I did on the weekend and mostly I answer that I was blogging and writing. Literally. They must be bored with my answers and my weekends, but, alas, I am not.

I don't have much else to take care of and we don't go out much and we don't have much of a social life. It doesn't seem to bother us much, seeing as that we are both highly addicted to blogging and both content with our addiction and unwilling to change anything much. Still, I sometimes nag my partner about things he has to do which he whines about as well but continues to procrastinate on.

So where does blogging fit into real life? Well, it fits in anywhere it can and we are still hoping to make money online and still hoping that our blogging journey will take us somewhere meaningful. Sometimes though, I get kind of discouraged because I am, at this point in my blogging empire, where the content is there and I've even hired a writer in India to help with that content. I'm working on the back links to this empire, in fact, I just started today and I'm hoping that this blogging that is taking over my life will get me somewhere indeed. It's a long path, a long journey, but I'm in it for the long run, so I keep working and keep on treading down the path of the blogger. It's a lonely path sometimes, but we must remember not to give up, like so many would-be bloggers do.