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I am generally not an envious person. Comparing myself to other people is something I actually avoid as I know it does not lead to anything good at all. Still  I am a human being and I am not flawless. That is not an excuse, it is just a simple explanation of all human beings.

Officially I have probably been blogging for about five years now, under different blogs and domains; which is why I have hopefully settled with this domain and name, as my articles and writing style can be rather random. Still I am not earning one cent from doing this. I started out doing it just for fun and to explore something new. I think I actually started blogging when it was more  or less new to most people in Europe. Again, I still do not earn a cent from it.
This is somewhat annoying, but somewhat my own fault too; or is it?

I have enough visitors to my blog to make me proud and feel that I have accomplished something. Still I can not help ask why I do not have more readers, and followers on Twitter. I am at least trying to avoid all the wrong things you can do with a blog and a Twitter account; so in the end I am actually clueless to what I am not doing enough.

The main thing that might be an issue is consistency; but that I have tried to cover with the name of the blog, .random[oid]. When I write and what I write about is usually very random and I tend to be all over the place. One day I write about Linux; next day I write about being an introvert or what I did earlier that day.
This is a common model most magazines and newspapers follow. They have a certain theme to what they publish and how it is written; but in the end it can be very varied. Just take Wired as an example; I love the magazine, but I don’t read all the articles in it, still I do pay for it.

I think the main type of bloggers who annoy me the most; or that I envy the most, are those who just suddenly start blogging about something completely shallow and start earning shit-loads of money. Just because they please the self-indulgent decadent mainstream.
Maybe being an introvert and who I am is what holds me back from being successful in the blogosphere and twitterverse; I am not promoting myself enough and forcing people to like me. I have never had the desire or urge to be liked by anyone. I always have and will live by my own rule; that this is who I am, it is up to you to like me or not. One of my favourite quotes in regard to this is:

I rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Another thing that might set me back is that I just blog for the fun of it. I do not lock myself in a room six to eight hours a day to write articles. I actually do it on a whim to entertain myself, and in hope to entertain others.
Just do not get me started on spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. I have not been diagnosed with it, but I do suspect I have a light version of dyslexia. Several times I have read a word or a sentence as it was intended, but later on discovering my error; or misread other people’s articles. I can also add that if I got a dollar for each spelling mistake or grammatical error I find in newspapers, books or other text-based media I would be rich. I actually own a few books with spelling errors, but you know what? I still understood the message from the writer.

Of course, the amount of blogs and Twitter accounts online is insane, so the competition is massive. Still I can not help being annoyed that some people get paid to publish garbage online. At least I am doing it for free; but I wish I could do it full-time with pay of course.
If I knew I would one day base my income on my writing, be it writing a blog or even novels and short stories, I would rather study that than biomedical science; but I don’t know and I am too afraid to take that risk.

Note: This article was written from A to B without any kind of editing. I have only checked it for spelling mistakes. In other words, take and read it as it is. It is free, so why should I bother?