Goodbye Blogging | Clare Henney

Blogging is something that I started doing when I was having a difficult time. Someone had recommended journaling and another told me to take it to another level by suggesting that I start a blog. I started and never looked back.

Back then blogging was not what it is today. They were more of online diaries where people shared their lives, thoughts, and feelings. I’m grateful I was there during the early days of blogging because I met so many people with whom I am still friends today. We have not seen each other often, but I am grateful and honored to have been a witness to their lives in the years that I have known them.

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So much has changed about blogging these days. Honestly, I know that there are very few people who still continue to blog the way it used to be because there are so many other forms of social media to share their lives on. So many have moved on to vlogging or have become influencers on social media platforms. Most people who still maintain blogs only use it to promote their other accounts online. With things always changing and with people wanting things to be accessed faster, hardly anyone takes time to read blogs anymore.

It did not matter much to me that people hardly read my blog. For me, it’s more of an outlet, something that helps me to destress at the end of a long day at work. Working on my blog helps me to focus on other things apart from my work and family responsibilities. I only blogged when I felt like it. Sometimes I blog daily, sometimes I rarely do. 

I’ve switched URLs so many times trying to renew my interest in blogging when I was getting bored with it. It was something that I tired of at times, but I always seemed to want to get back into it despite the lack of public interest in it. I even tried monetizing my blog and going the way of influencer blogging and affiliate marketing since that was what a lot of people were doing. Unfortunately, it did not feel authentic to me and it felt more like a job that way so I stopped doing that. 

For the past few months I have been blogging but I don’t feel the interest in it the way I used to. I have tried shaking the feeling off but I have realized that I do not enjoy it the way I did before. A lot of my friends are surprised that I still blog and I told them then that it was because I still enjoyed it. Sadly, it feels that I’m not anymore. It’s time to stop and say goodbye to blogging. 

Blogging was my outlet to de-stress. Now that I have decided to stop, I need to find a new outlet for myself. A few friends have suggested vlogging, but I’m not sure that I am comfortable with being in front of a camera like that. I don’t know what to do yet exactly, it may be online, it may be offline. But I will definitely be doing something else. 

Thank you to the people who have visited this blog (and all other iterations of it) through the years. Thank you for allowing me to share my life and letting it be a part of yours. 

I’ll be keeping this URL for the blog this year at the most and then I’ll be letting go of this address. I might delete the blog or keep it private after that. 

Thanks again, everyone, for visiting this blog and keeping me company here through the years. Until we meet again (or not). Take care everyone and stay safe!