Blogging vs. Vlogging

Before I started this blog, I tried my hand at Youtube for a while. My channel wasn’t all that professional looking and neither was the quality of the videos. It was simply me in front of my webcam reciting my poetry. I was nervous to film myself but I had some positive feedback and friends who encouraged me. After a while, I realized that I was more comfortable expressing myself through the written word than on video.

I watch a few daily vloggers and since starting my blog, I have an even greater respect for what they do. It can’t be easy to make your daily life interesting enough for other people to want to watch it. I find that each week it becomes a little more challenging to think about topics to write about five days a week, so it’s hard for me to imagine what it must be like to come up with something insightful to say or to be entertaining seven days a week. The best days are of course when a major life event occurs and the audience gets to witness their favourite Youtube personality get married or travel the world. There are so many reality TV shows out there that don’t reflect reality at all, however the shows you find on Youtube are about real people and their triumphs and trails, heartbreak and happiness. They have viewers from all over the world who interact with them and feel connected to them. They inspire people to dare to dream and take advantage of opportunities that could lead to major change in their lives.

I hope that I have something valuable to say with these blogs and that I can share at least a few unique perspectives that you might not find elsewhere. Some days are slower than others, but at least my words are reaching out instead of being locked away where they wouldn’t be able to share their purpose. I don’t have the skill of being able talk to camera and express myself through talking to an audience, and this is why blogging suits me best. The thoughts I carry around don’t translate as well through speaking as they do when I write them out and can take the time to shape them in exactly the way I chose.