♥ A Sunday Morning view on things♥

 Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing well.

Today is actually one month since I checked into Essencia Hotel; it doesn't feel like a month. It feels more like I don't know two weeks, but I guess what they say about time flies when you're having fun is very accurate in my case.

I am having so much fun here, and my creativity is absolutely bursting, at least when it comes to writing; when it comes to photography, it's a whole different thing; I don't know what it is, but I just haven't felt the itch to be taking photographs really.

I hope you can understand my thought process. Not that my photographs have ever been planned out or anything, as most of you know, I take photos at the moment. Still, I haven't felt the itch to even do that apart from taking pictures for my blog posts. I have decided to be totally OK with that because I don't want to put any pressure upon myself when it comes to being in second life I want things to flow naturally. I do what comes to mind rather than stealing the stress of taking a photo because I haven't uploaded any photo onto my Flickr page for a week.

Many second-life people put enormous pressure on themselves once they have started to follow Flickr or their blogs are doing really well. I just haven't been that type of person ever, really. I have just been doing my own thing, naturally letting things flow. So be it if my blog does not get updated for a month. Instead, I put out something that really interests me, and they really want to talk about it rather than putting out a blog post if the blog post is the blog post just because that might be what my readers expect of me or what my viewers on Flickr expect from me.

It's not what other people expect from you that should really matter; what you bring "to the table" will lead you to have a more significant following when it comes to any social media.

People ask me, "how are you able to keep your blog so fluent and easy to the point where it doesn't feel like a chore to do a blog post?"

My answer and my view:

I started my first blog when I was around 12-13 years old, so having a blog has almost been second nature, so it was only fitting that I started the blog that I have now. As I have said before, this it's not just any blog about second life. This is a blog where two worlds become one.

My blog will never ever be a blog about the up-and-coming clothing within second life or the newest hair; those types of blogs just bored the hell out of me, to be honest. I mean, where's the fun in that?

You post a highly processed photo, then you copy and paste what you have on from your inventory in second life, and that's it.

I will do a few select numbers of sponsored blog posts, but the blog posts actually have interest me personally. It would be something that I could speak freely about without feeling that I'm lying to my readers because the sponsors of the blog posts want me to say this, this, and this because it looks good for their store or whatever

I can promise you that blog posts that are "forced" will burn you out quicker than you can say "fuck!" 

Once you have started "the burning out process," your blog will cause you to have high anxiety levels because you know we could have to do a certain number of posts that month for a certain number of stores. You will be putting out lower quality content than ever. Your blog will become dustier and dustier until it becomes a thing of the past because thinking about your blog causes you to have anxiety, so it's best to just leave it alone.

You now enter the "second life is not fun anymore stage."

Every day you come into second life with a mentally written schedule of what you must do today.

Stage photo.

Take a photo.

Highly processes that photo in Photoshop to make it Look nothing like second life.

Write a blog post.

Use the photo for the blog post.

Make sure to name the store 10 times in the post.

Monitor the post on social media.

Do a better post.

Do another photo.

Do another blog post.

Log off second life.

Of course, second life is boring as hell for you when all you have to do is this!

Your second life, blog, and social media are your space. Do whatever the fuck you want!