The Audience

Recently I have gotten a lot of feedback on my blog.  Several people have contacted me with the desire to start blogging for themselves as sort of a "self-help" endeavor and have asked me questions about my blog that I never really even considered before.  Questions like:  "Who is your audience?" and "How do you decide who you're writing to?"

Hmmm, I never really asked myself that question. Although I am aware that if you want to have a successful money making blog, you need to have a focus and a particular audience, when I started this blog it was more about self-exploration and maybe even documenting my own journey in life.  I look back over my posts over the last few years (both the published an unpublished ones) and I can see exactly where I've made mistakes.  I can see where I (rarely) got things right and I can see clearly who the people are in my life who truly love me and want the best for me.  Everything you read here is about one person's quest to find that ever-elusive thing we call "happy."

This blog is my story.  It is about my crazy messed up trip through this dysfunctional insane world.  It is one person's experience on the road to enlightenment and self-actualization.  It is about a chick who is just trying to put all the pieces together to make herself the best life possible.

She often gets things wrong.  She often trusts the wrong people and fails to trust her own instincts. She is flawed.   She's Sometimes overwhelmed and she frequently over-thinks things to the point of exhaustion.

I guess my only goal, as far as my readers are concerned, is to be able to show you that whatever you may be going through, you're not alone.  Someone else out there has been in your shoes.  Someone understands you and someone cares.  It's easy to feel alone when you're facing big mountains of despair, confusion and hurt.  My hope is that someone can land here and read something that lets them know that their experiences aren't for nothing.  Maybe if I can learn from my mistakes and heartbreaks, I can help someone else do the same.

So if you ended up here today or if you end up here at some point in the future, just know that YOU are my audience.  You are who I am writing to and if you are looking for hope or help or just some understanding, I hope you find it here.