Why have I chosen to blog about socio-political issues which is simply defined by many (and some of my students) as = “boringâ€.
I could have just blogged about different sex scandals and mingled with thousands of online perverts and pedophiles and maybe even become the newest BFF of Hayden Kho. I could have just blogged about the ethical treatment of animals and storm on each of my post KFC’s delicious fried chicken, in return having Pam Anderson vigorously stripping me of fur coats and leather jackets. I could have just blogged about my life’s non-sense adventures and sing “I did it my way!â€Â Bang!!!
But I don’t want to end my life so easily with just an old song.
This is one question that always confronts me whenever I blog hop like a grasshopper on the long lists of blogs overcrowding my two Google readers.
Why am I blogging about political issues in the first place?
Some blogging friends are actually sending me apologies after I make a post (which I really appreciate guys, hu hu hu), for not being able to participate on the discussions on my posts that primarily center on socio-political issues in the country because they are not really so familiar and at ease with my topics.
Sometimes I am asking myself if I write so bad that people are not excited to join in the political discussion, or political issues are simply more often than not, not as exciting as Farmville, Mafia Wars, Katy Perry and Darna.
I totally understand these blogging buddies. I really love and appreciate them. With even just their visits on my blog, I already take it as a heart-warming expression of looking at what I am up to and how am I doing. Thanks guys. No need to comment. But if you comment on my posts, I will send you a box of chocolate on X’mas Day. *wink*
We definitely all have our own blogging tastes, our own styles, perspectives, opinions and way of doing things that may seem too ridiculous for others. But at the end of our blogging day, the question that will bug us like our Moms constantly asking us to fix our ultra-congested rooms is, “Are we happy with what we are doing, with what we are writing?â€Â “Are we fulfilled?â€
We may come to wonder why, a doctor writes with so much passion heavenly poetry about bananas; or a man could muster of living with 13 blogs under his belt; or an educator could come up with great literary pieces on her blog; or a law student in a prestigious university could share with great enthusiasm the juiciest of showbiz buzz daily; or a missionary Priest could actually blog with wit, humour and sincerity his missionary work on a far-flung place of the country to inspire his readers and invite young men to the priesthood; or a superb blogger and writer could be so accommodating to his readers like they have been friends since time immemorial; or why a blogger untiringly targets keywords with precision and efficiency; or to simply put it, why we blog so passionately over what we blog.
I guess the simple and general answer is we are all happy and fulfilled with what we are doing, with what we are blogging, no matter what it is. What we blog makes us happy, makes us feel free, makes us real with ourselves. Those guys I mentioned are happy with what they are doing…and what they are doing best.
That is why I am blogging about Willie Revillame, Conrado de Quiros, Sen. Lito Lapid and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. I feel the exhilarating sensation when writing a post about them! I am just do damn happy and free. PoOf!
How about you guys? Why are you blogging about your specific niche/topic? What makes you continue to blog about your chosen niche/topic with so much passion?
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Ah that question… what do you blog about. Think Z, think!
Okay, so poetry and stories. Then what?
The poems may range from a dream, love, lust, food, feeling, lost, road kill, wizards, gods and goddesses, etc. But I have always have this feeling that I would be writing more on the darker side of poetry, I just don’t know why… the dark side calls – and I shall answer.
Stories would range from personal accounts, some twisted version of the truth or just fiction and sci-fi. I haven’t written any short story that has overflowing emotions yet, I think that my writing skills still need a lot of work.
Thank you for the mention bro, I was tempted to link all of my entries in this comment section but I thought otherwise. BTW, politics isn’t really my thing. I stay clear from those hot topics. I do know you’d understand.
Z
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Hi Doc! No need to apologize Bro about not really being a BFF of political issues.
What makes blogging so irresistible and at the same time a great learning process is that we learn day by day of honing our craft and raise to a higher level at each moment we write and write things that inspire us. And I would really really love to read your next collection of stories that contains “overflowing emotions” Hehehhehe!
You are being drawn to the dark side of things in your writing? Hmmm… Yes! Coz even the design of your blog which is predominantly black tells us some tidbits about the content of your blog.
But that is what you are good at bro…no question about it. The darker side of poetry. For me on the other hand, I am drawn towards the sensuous and playful type of poetry.
As a blogger, there is always that favorite niche/topic I always love to write about which I do not feel so isolated or become murderous; but I do think blogging is one of the many things that humans do to combat the feeling of isolation that at one time or another we have to write something about the needs of our readers. It is probably this need to reach out and touch and to be touched that is at the core of the blogger’s need to write.
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I agree Yodz when you said that there is a need for bloggers to combat isolation, may it be on a personal level or as an netizen.
I felt that thing exactly when I started blogging and as if no one even cared to visit my blog or interact with me. It led me abandon blogging and only went back when I gained friends.
Blogging could be a lonely futile exercise if despite doing what you love to write, you don’t having people around you to share your opinions with or blogging ups and down. And online community I think is the key.
oh yes! I’m very much fulfilled! never had this feeling of satisfaction in the corporate world
but of course, that’s just me.
you’re not updated bro, that’s 16 hehe… was surprised to see an incoming links to my blog. thanks!
well, I do write about political issue, but I tried to avoid them lately. besides, I have a wide range of areas to cover before I can reach to them. but every now and then, I get to spit out political views too
okay, make mine dark chocolate
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Gracious goodness! You already have 16! Woaaah! I guess I have to update my blogging radar to cover all 16. Jesus, I can’t really imagine myself having 16 blogs, oh I would need some heavy stimulant in order keep 16 all working.
Well, that is your gift SD.
Dark chocolate? Hmmm…Noted. Hopefully my adsense earnings come X-mas day could already serve me in order to send you a bar of dark choco, eheheheh!
hehehehe habang nag-aabang ako ng new post ni deejay, nakita ko ang link kaya sinundan ko…omg, at special mention pa ako…hehehe. at alam na alam pa na may mga nirerecruit akong blogger friends sa priesthood. hehe ang galing ng research.
salamat po sa pagpa-plug.
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Hi Pads! Hehehhehe! Aba natambay ka pala sa gate ng blog ni DeeJay ah eheheh!
Di naman po talaga ako nagresearch ng husto, medyo nakita ko lang agad na may section ang blog mo inviting vocations, ehehhe! X-Man kasi ako kaya naamoy ko kaagad eheheh!
Sana makarami ka Pads, pakonti ng lang mga pari ngayun eh…
The politics of the heart is more interesting for me. Doc Z talked about darkness – that, too, is very interesting. That,my friend, has no discernible buzz, but stories like that don’t get old. But it’s not all about darkness of course. There’s the unending story of our aspirations as individuals. Do we surmount the obstacles thrown our way? Do we finally get tired of us throwing obstacles in our own way – because that too happens.
I’m not saying the road you take isn’t any less right. Who determines what’s right in this matter anyway. As long as you enjoy what you’re doing and helps bring clarity to the issues you raise, you’re doing well, bro.
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I think you suggested that to me Bro before…writing about reflections and stuffs about life’s twisted phenomenon and as you said the politics of the heart. What makes this niche so beautiful is that it does not grow old. It is always new the same way we have new and dynamic experiences everyday.
My only hesitation on doing such kind of write ups is that though I have the idea what to write, it is a very personal thing that makes it quite heavy for me to do…how about you, you may want to add a new blog about the politics of the heart?
What is important is that we are happy and fulfilled with what we are writing and doing on our blogging endeavors. Who knows, I will add a new blog about politics of the heart…in the near future.
The human heart is a very cavernous place. Isn’t it surprising such a relatively small organ can hold so much emotions, delusions, ambitions, thirst for validation, etc?
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I agree. And with this organ as big as your fist, it somehow could ruin one’s world or give him/her that elation; given him strength and hope or simply lead him to sadness and despair; give him endurance or a heart attack LOL…the wonders of the heart.
I blog about everything nice, walang niche, kahit ano… Politics in the Philippines is a chronic disease, no matter how you criticize them, wala ng pag-asa. But it’s an advantage on your part who writes about politics, more issues and controversies, more materials to write. =)
Uy, nag-comment ako, kasama ako sa papadalhan mo ng chocolates, haha…
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Hi Bads! Will a box of Chocnut be OK already? Hehehhe!
Politics in the country is indeed a chronic disease, but I still don’t want to lose hope. I still want to believe that we could still change our nation into something better, something nicer, something more prosperous and peaceful.
Maybe this is one of the reason why I blog about it.
Oo nga eh, super daming issues in politics every minute na sobrang daming pwedeng isulat ehehhe! Di ka mauubusan ng mapag uusapan ehehhe!
Chocolates ba Elmot? Local lang sa akin – toffiluk.
Kidding aside, I salute you for being able to write effortlessly about politics. This is one topic I’m so uninspired to write about. I find it too lofty for my simple neurons. Kaya bilib ako sa iyo, after your most challenging job, you still have the stamina and inspiration for another “mountain” to surmount. I can’t even “think” profoundly after a toxic day’s work. That’s why what I need is a “relaxer”, something to motivate my creative juices instead. And so I write about creative and light topics. These make me create my own world and do anything I would like to fancy.
Writing is an outlet for me to de-stress. I find writing about serious topics a stimulant for more stress….he he he…and all I wanted was to relax, so I avoid writing about politics.
I was wondering how you could still write in this genre when school offers all the “toxicity” one could imagine. Now I know, you enjoy writing in this niche. When we enjoy what we do, it becomes a breeze to do it.
Thanks for the link, and sorry if I was not able to comment on some posts. I cannot contribute something meaty kasi, so I just kept my peace, but I’m a voracious reader of all of your posts.
Mabuhay ka , Elmot!
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Toffiluk? sure, ehehhe!
Thanks for the wonderful words Mam. For other people writing about political issues is an added stress. But on my part, it is my own way of coping with stress. Whenever I read and hear news about all this political brouhaha, I feel more stressed. But when I write about it, I would feel better and lighter. I think that is my own unique way of stress management.
No problem Mam if you cannot comment on some of my posts…I know that you are visiting, and that completes my day already
“I could have just blogged about different sex scandals” BLAAAG! I was hit bigtime. I blogged once about a sex scandal, albeit incidental. hahaha.
Thanks for the mention
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Hahhaha! I wrote about it too before Bro, so I guess we are on the same club. eheheh!
Good thing we are not writing about sex scandals everyday…I have seen a a blog dedicated actually about all sex scandals… Guess what happened to that site? The owner’s house was raided and the site was shut down, eheheh!
Seriously, it doesn’t matter which topic you want to blog about – if its something that you love to do – then by all means go for it.
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I have seen you before lambast politicians in a wilder tone compared to what I do, eheheh!
I have been looking at my adsense earnings too everyday and also wonder why all these cents have been there for so long, eheheh! You are blogging for cents? Are you kidding Bro? ehehhehe! You are now and blogging mogul of Pinas, ehehe!
Us political bloggers have the uneasy task of waddling in such a “dirty” and messy subject, but it is a noble one for no human can escape politics. He/she may hate it to the very end, but there is no escaping the truth that somehow, one way or another, he/she is affected by politics and he/she in turn affects it.
Man after all, is a political being.
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I guess that is one point too…no one can escape politics. We may choose not to talk about it, but it will always affect our way of living. And politics as I understand it is not all about politicians or government. It is the dynamics of the relationships of people and institutions.
Thus, we are all in it
I guess you’re right… I’m just not at ease to discuss controversial topics especially politics and governance… not in my blog… But I could comment though, but very seldom… I prefer my ideas not to be published so as not to leave any proofs… hahahahhahaha… I just have a different venue for those kind of topics… well to each his own… ahihihihihi… but yes you’re right again every blogger has his own style, and others… but for the question did it serve its purpose for me… I would answer yes… Because I achieved my purpose for blogging… and it even exceeded my expectations… but yeah I blog simply because I prefer to gather friends not enemies… jejejejejejeje
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i like to blog about kongresman manik manaog..:)
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Si Kongresman manik manaog? Wahahah! Mukang madami yan sila Bro, eheheh!
blogging is writing, and people write best about what they know best. you can’t write effectively about food if you can’t boil an egg. you can’t write a good review without having seen the movie.
the same with politics. if it’s your interest, and you know enough about it to talk competently about it, then by all means blog about it!
hehehe! hi elmot! salamat sa mention. natouch ako. hihihi!
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Very well said Deejay, bravo!
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I agree Deejay…You certainly could only write and talk with credibility, ease and confidence if you know what you are talking and not some copy paste articles…ehehhe!
May soft spot ka pala ah, eheheh! Hayaan mo lagi kitang ilink love para matouch ka lagi eheheheh!
Hi Elmot! Hehe. Im one of those who come around here and not leave comments. I’m not to keen on discussing politics on the web or on my blog (although I do have a couple here and there).
It’s not because I don’t have an opinion, Im actually very strongly opinionated about politics, I guess it’s more because I prefer not to talk about it here. lol. We can discuss offline anytime over coffee or beer. Ahehe. or both.
But i guess our principle for writing is the same – we blog about what excited and interests us. See im sometimes interested in caterpillars. lol.
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Oy, a lurker speaks. Roll out the dark chocs, Elmot.
For lurkers, choc nut will do, eheheh!
Now I am excited to discuss with you lots of stuffs over some bottles of chilled beer, wahahaha! But I am pretty sure we will only be led to discuss other non-sense stuffs especially if the whole gang of influenza bloggers are around LOL!
Oh, caterpillars, I really love pic you posted bro…I thought it was a jelly candy that I used to buy in the mall.
Thanks for always visiting and reading bro.
Ahaha. I love chocnut. I buy them regularly here at SM Batangas. lol.
I also remember being in Europe and yet going gaga over chocnut after being on tour for several months. lol. Excited talaga.
Kailan kaya matutuloy yang laging plano. haha. Sige, balang araw.
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I love chocnut too! It is my favorite dessert after dinner, LOL
Aba, talo pa ng chocnut ang mga tsokolate ng europe ah ehehhe!
Hay, sana sa darating na pasko matuloy na…
I think blogging is one of the many things that humans do to combat the feeling of isolation that at one time or another we have to write something about the needs of our readers.
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i’m so in love with conrado de quiros. bahala na kahit matanda na siya at may asawa na ako. hahaha!
love,
nobe
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Natawa naman ako dun, eheheh! Super fan ka pala ni Conrad, ehehhe!
Blogging becomes fulfilling only if you write about the things that make you so passionate about life. It keeps us from becoming complete drones (which happens when we get too immersed in the 9-6 cycle of the daily grind). I don’t like politics either but I like the personal slant you put into them (that’s why I keep dropping by, lol).
Or…I guess, I subscribe to a lot of blogs — with topics ranging from Iloilo cuisine to showbiz — because I just like reading. The only blogs I probably stay away from are the too controversial ones owned by pala-away authors or the ones that have cut-and-paste content.
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