I’m personally writing this for myself, but I’m also hoping that this piece touches the hearts of anyone who finds it.
For many years, it’s been my desire to express myself in every possible ways; it could be in the form of producing a video, photography, or writing a blog.
I have no problem expressing myself in a blog because I know that only a handful of people may stumble upon this website, but expressing on my personal social media account? That’s an obvious no-no for me.
- I’m afraid that I might offend people
- I don’t want to look foolish in public eye, especially for the audience that personally know me
- It’s cringy
When I think hard enough of why I really want to express myself and share a piece of me with the world. I asked myself, what do I really want from this? Do I want the potential money or fame out of it?
I suddenly answered my question back. What I need is the community of enthusiast to something and influence in some way.
So, now that I’ve got my answer. Here are the things I did and will continue to do and expand to have a number of community that I want to belong:
- Be helpful: If you help, people will tend to help back or at least get inspired by you. They will also sometimes follow you, your advice, or maybe hear your point of view. If you are helpful and always deliver, you deserve a follow because people wants to know the way you take care of things.
- Checking on events: I usually check events on Facebook and find interesting things to attend too, and I also met some amazing people in the past events I attended. What I like about Facebook events is that they are localized and serve as a go-to platform for everything in the Philippines; however, you can also use other platforms like Meetup and Eventbrite.
- Creating a brand new social media account: This one is on my to-do list and I want to try it on instagram, threads, and substack. Having a brand new social media and not following you know is another way to express freely.
- Cold Email: Reaching out to blogs that I genuinely follow and thank them for writing and creating their blog, maybe, exchange ideas.
My ending thoughts
There are many ways to express and it doesn’t need to be loud, it can be chill, subtle, and messy. Because of that, I will plan to expand and update this post in the future or maybe, extend it to another post as I test and experiment along the way.