REAL BLOGGERS.

I love reading blog posts more than I love reading books. Given that I use a moniker to run this blog, I know that I am quite bland in anecdotal symphony. I know it and that is why I use a pen name. At least, no one will castigate me for my lackluster performance. I can silhouette the bluff incandescently while not having to juxtapose the immediate contents of my banal experiences ludicrously (sic).

I love those who do not use a pseudonym when it comes to blogging. For example, let’s assume a guy called Patrick is blogging. Obviously, if he is gutsy enough, he will ensure he acquires a domain name by the name Patrick. Assuming it is even possible to get such a domain name given that there was a guy two decades ago who eloped with it even before a bugger like me ever knew that blogging exists.

As a matter of fact, because Patrick loves all the brouhaha that comes with blogging, whether he does photography, writing or some other hoity toity stuff on the net, he will decide to also have a Facebook page. The page will be non performing because Zucks will not give you fame for free on a platform he started in a dormitory. So Patrick will use his Facebook account instead. If he is the steadfast guy, after sometime, he will reap what he did sow. Guys will start 'liking' his posts and this can be a boon if exploited with zeal.

Ideally, Facebook charges for creating a page. In order to reach many people, just like any advertisement platform, you need to pay. As your numbers grow, so does the amount of money you need to pay. You also need a set of skills which will come in handy in the sense that they add value a lot. Like a little bit of Graphic design won't hurt. As a blogger, you need to invest. Twitter is not also free, to advertise, you need to pay them. So, you gain by having more readers visiting your blog by paying to showcase your products on the online networking sites.

The best thing about Facebook is that once you start being a perennial user of posting your works in it, you will get the results even though it will be only organic reach. As time progresses, it will be easy to get more people to like your posts because that is what Facebook is all about. However, links never work that much. The bottom line is that in order to get an audience, you will need more than just being good at what you do. You need money. If you do not have it. Like any other guy, no one will ever notice you.

I love the stories of bloggers who tell it as it is. The fact that I can see their picture makes them more relatable. A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s even dear to the heart. On the contrary, for a bugger like me, I have tried to keep the whole thing in the dark. It’s like going to the back streets and looking for contraband or being a sex worker. Though you think that you are never seen, there is that guy who will see you doing your stuff but he will never tell you about it. The same way someone knows about the writings of this blog but never talks about it. You let it pass just like that because its nature to do so.

Sometimes I wish I had the guts to put my blog on my Facebook page. Will it even add anything? Maybe it can. Then one day those sniffer dogs hired by Zucks will realize that I am reaping from it. They will then muzzle my reach and there will be nothing I can do. It’s a capitalistic world though. It’s the reason why I also abhor the duo who run blogger. In fact, it is no longer lucrative to be a blogger without bucks. It will force you to go offline if you want to make it. Online advertising can be expensive but it is worth it in the long run.

Since this blog aims at anonymity, there is no pressure to consider paid up advertising. Which boils down to cutting your coat according to your size. It is kind of lonely yes but the satisfaction is liberating though sometimes ennervatig. On the contrary, being like Daft Punk is quite unrewarding. You achieve success much later as opposed to it being sooner. As a result, you get no offers for free drinks, a movie opening and other stuff that real consistent bloggers who advertise get. The bottom line is that if you put people in the dark, they cannot give freebies you way. Preserving a level of pseudonymity is in line with being in control and trusting that my intuition is right even if it is checkered. It also gives fulfillment in creating a personality which I could not once my nee brought me to this planet. 


I love it this way because no single employer has ever found this out to derail my plans and cut me off. You can get dirty. Obviously if they knew certain traits in my character they would have let me off even before I knew it. I can also be honest sometimes as I go about my duties. Never mind that I consider my 8 to 5 job one full of a lot of idling. You may ask why? From the perspective of someone who has ever worked for a Chinese, there is nothing like gibbering while at work. You are only allowed to be productive. After all, giving out free money is not what anyone wants.


This cocoon offers so much comfort. At the end of the day, when I am feeling like I have not achieved, I can bring the hullabaloo here. What I don't know is whether I am using my authentic voice. I have a couple of times thought that I am imitating someone. And I do not want anyone to find out that I  am a copy cat. I only do this because I want it to remain an avenue to self affliction and affirmation. It's also self effacing since one day I will take a leap of faith and go the extra mile of showcasing my other personality. I obviously have boundaries in my scripting if you may ask. I would have loved telling some lewd stories but my conscience cannot allow me. If someone else narrates those salacious anecdotes, I occasionally  entertain them because they excite me. But from me!


Anonymous blogging is a disease. One day, the chips will get down. A friend once told be that a little changes in life. Every time I hit the publish button, I usually get excited. Especially when I see some few numbers. Then things return to the pattern prototype. What is for sure is that this blog perfectly mirrors to an extent my assumptions about life. The messy stuff and complicated things that make life interesting. My vulnerability is also revealed and their is this feeling of illusion that everything in life is fine when in actually fact I am still at a limbo. I hope I will turn around and help inspire others once I am through with this rippling effects.


This may hinder my freelance writing career but I am content in the meantime. I think I should endeavor to write about les jeux sont faits. 

Hasta La Vista Baby

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REFLECTIONS

It’s almost a year ever since this blog got rejuvenated in terms of content posting after staying in hibernation untouched for close to two years since its inception. Actually, reminiscing the past, I can well say I have gotten more sluggish and indolent about the whole inkling of making an undeterred scribe. Not anymore. The dreams of going commercial or public are still under the woods or are underground in street parlance due to matters personal to the heart. I now wish I could muster the courage to write a book irrespective of the fact that I am even more than sure I may reach a point where I will be disillusioned and never write whatever I had in mind, because of having lost the motivation or imagination.

If this blog has become a struggle as I currently envisage my candour as a demurred grapnel at the onset of anchorage. This is because I have been sluggish to read any books and writing on a daily basis is now farfetched. Coming from a relatively middle class background, I have somehow developed deep feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. They decapitate my ambition sometimes much to my blogs chagrin because it has good content but no readers.

There is one kid I read about on the dailies but I have forgotten his name who kept his manuscript undisclosed until that point in time when he was published. My blog is still under such wraps until that point I will get a good designer to redo it and acquire a sensible domain name having maximized on effective search engine optimization or advertising on the social media platforms or the dominant search engines.

But hey! While I am not doing great in terms of the force I had started with in terms of writing, I can aptly say that just like whiskey, the more it ages and matures, the better I have become. When I consider the far that I have reached, I am no longer doubtful that it is something deep that drives me to do that which am doing. Money may be a major motivation but it ceases being a compelling force on my part. There is something about brilliance; it can never be replaced no matter what. If you are good, you are. But I also am sure that with hard work, the sky is the limit. Like I only spent say three or four months getting to know about graphic design and alas, while I may not be as creative and imaginative as some of those designs I admire, I can avidly say that the fruits of my labour have been partly achieved. Sometimes taking the initiative to learn on your own is rewarding even though the severity is what most cannot condone because learning something on YouTube or textbook and executing it can be a challenging endeavour.

Sometimes I wish I could have been a master orator, someone who can talk and capture the attention of an audience using banal anecdotes told in a passionate appeal, telling unmatched punch lines and with strong transitions executed smoothly with a vocal delivery that has a message that the audience is convinced of and will take with them. I want to get to that point where I can calmly adjust my delivery depending on how my audience engages with my material while on stage or on any other worthy platform.  There are times when I ponder how I will engage an audience, by getting them to laugh, cheer, gasp, or have any other emotional reaction. Since it usually takes time to get there, I am willing to patiently wait even if it means it will never see me do it while still alive. God forbid though! If it comes when am no longer in existence, then my lingering ghosts will be proud of what I did that is if I may never get to have children.

Oh! I know children make parents want to live to see them grow. I want my children to have a life that will not only be fulfilling but also worth living. Since I cannot deliver and provide that which I want for them, I will still give the marriage business a wide berth. It’s practical. Why should I let the mother and the child suffer because I cannot provide. I am not going to risk having a child. Not sooner. But again, no prospective woman is in mind. The one I had in mind is evasive and that is what I want. It takes me away from the troubles of thinking about someone else. She thinks I am unpredictable yet am as ordinary as the random Joe.

Ideally, women can't believe we men are so unobservant. This is aptly the reason why most people who get involved in accidents are men. Research shows that we are more a product of our biology than the victims of social stereotypes. We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Which could be the reason why the woman I am pursuing and I usually spend too much thinking about may find some of the very mundane things I intimate to her very fallacious.

'It's obvious that women are smarter than men. Think about it - diamonds are a girl's best friend; man's best friend is a dog. ' Joan Rivers

That was just a by-the-way. Onto more important matters now. How good it feels to know that beyond the shadow of the doubt I have, the information, strategies, philosophies, and skills that I have gained as far could assist any one of these people I envisage to indulge in empowering themselves to make the changes they desire most!

A flood of images and emotions will flow over me when I reach that point in time in life. I will have attained self-actualization, which some think has to do with having financial freedom or amassing vast wealth and assets which I cannot deny I am also in pursuit of, but the most important aspect is leaving an indelible mark in the hearts of people so that they will profess of how you aided them in overcoming one or two hurdles bestowed by mother nature.

Yet most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. Controlled focus is like a laser beam that can cut through anything that seems to be stopping you. I wish I knew this earlier on in life to sharpen my skills so that they are at that level where they can no longer be flaccid.

When we focus consistently on improvement in any area, we develop unique distinctions on how to make that area better. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped and harnessed to change the way humanity has envisaged itself.

As a matter of fact, I decided that somehow I must contribute in some way that would live on long after I was gone. I'm constantly figuring out how to communicate this knowledge with people in ways that truly empower them to improve their mental, emotional, physical, and financial destinies.

And I will succeed because I have understood the power of a truly committed decision that when acted upon, no matter what the conditions, on a continuous basis will eventually bring back the intended results.

Deciding to commit myself to long-term results, rather than short-term fixes, is as important as any decision I have made in my lifetime. Failing to do this can cause not only result in massive financial or societal pain, but sometimes even the ultimate personal pain. In that regard, I raised my standards, backed them up with new beliefs, and implemented the strategies I know I must. You may have heard of the Six "P" Formula. It says, "Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance."

This post cannot be complete without the mention that I have many posts that are hanging and need to be acted upon like yesterday. They somehow make me feel bad because I usually never plan prior to doing that which I am supposed to be doing. I am so full of procrastination. More than ten posts are still hanging which was not the intention of this blog.

When I started, I was very pessimistic about life and all that has to do with making in general. But as I progress, I am fully aware that courage and confidence will reinvent the person in me to achieve unmatched potential in life if well moderated so that it never reeks of arrogance. However, I am poignant that I will get there. I am not going to be chasing after nothing in particular with matters concerning life. Neither will I be betrothed to societal folly of peers herd mentality.

HASTA LA VISTA BABY.

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