VIRTUOUS BLOGGING

When I started the blog, I was creating a platform to add my voice to what was happening in the world, mostly in terms of style. I loved to tell stories about my look and style but then I began to have feelings that for many people in the business of fashion/style blogging it had become a game of likes, comments and popularity. So I took some time off, just as soon as I had got my momentum on, from the blog for a while so I could find myself and discover what I wanted to present to the handful of people who by then read the blog. This was one of the major reasons why the blog often went for long periods without new content. But I am happy now because every day I keep learning about myself and the feeling of having a strong sense of want has been nurtured in me quite well now so I am able to make choices I feel are what my heart desires. One of these choices has been my resolution to move to my country home in Machakos because this will allow me the peace of mind I so need right now to build on my persona as a writer. I have decided to include more of my personal life journeys to the blog, something that will demand that I am ruthlessly honest with myself and with you guys; putting my fears, bravado out there. I have discovered when I decided to take things to a whole new personal level that my writing has been easy because I talk about honest things that are happening in my life so technically I don’t need much thinking as I just pen down stuff about me. I realize as well that when you are genuine about stuff, everything comes off so effortlessly, and experience says people connect with you to the extent you connect with yourself.

I appreciate how the blogosphere in the country has made major steps with many good writers and bloggers coming through at incredible speed. It’s nice to have different perspectives to a story whether it’s in fashion, entrepreneurship, politics so on, and I think this is where writers of most sites have done well; but honestly I have seen very few writers who have the alternative voice. In our social media age it’s very easy to become a clone of somebody else by whether it’s a choice of wanting to be part of a current story or it’s a total lack of self or a genuine journey towards finding yourself or whether it’s the popular desire to indulge in the game of likes. So you don’t really see alternative thinking very much, whether it’s in our passionate politics, or popular fashion and style or whatever the case is, you don’t really get to see that a lot. A lot of concepts are given to us by the more developed areas of the planet as they have a more digital upbringing than most of us but important isn’t where you got your inspiration from important is what you decide to do with your inspiration. There happens to be a thin line between being inspired and being a copy. All our ideas stem from something or somewhere but what we choose to do with the idea should exude some good amount of originality. This part perhaps is where most people find difficult to work around. For me for example when I was starting out in writing (I still I’m working on my craft) I had very strong influence from people I admire and respect both in the print and digital space of writing who admittedly had an incredible effect on my style of writing. I later, and slowly, after beginning to discover myself, started to chart my own way of doing things. I feel, for anyone who is coming up, whatever your craft is, you will need to emulate your prototype and while at that you should slowly and quickly simultaneously grow your own feet to walk on your own. I am looking forward to sharing more and being sincere with both myself and you guys in my posts henceforth.