I am stressed about blogging

I love talking. Probably too much. And now I’ve decided to do it on the internet.

I like talking about what is going on in my life, my interests, and my thoughts in general. This is my way of connecting with people. I like sharing my opinion about a good movie I have just seen, or a YouTube video that has impacted me in one way or another. Sometimes I think I overshare, so I need to hit the brakes, but yeah, in general, this is who I am and I honestly like it.

In my opinion, this helped me socialize and make connections and friendships with people. I guess people don’t feel that they need to put their guards up around me, and I feel that unlocks true connection. I personally hate when I have to calculate everything coming out of my mouth every time I need to interact with someone. However, not going to lie, many people don’t like that and that is fine. Not everyone should be like me or should like my personality.

So this personality brought me here, to create my own blog. I am stressed about my thoughts and thinking out loud on the internet, and probably having my first post titled “I am stressed about blogging” is not helping set up this blog for success, but as I described above, I hate filters in real life and I won’t put on filters on my digital blog.

I want my own blog to reflect who I truly am. I don’t want it to be artificial or not real. I don’t wanna set examples for people, I don’t wanna be an inspirational figure, I just wanna be who I am. Would that create a good blog? I don’t think so. Would that create a blog I would be happy about? Yes.

The idea of creating a blog has been on my mind for more than a year. I am a software engineer and these sorts of blogs do help create a personal brand and a name in the industry, so that was my first motivation. But then I was in Starbucks on a Sunday (something I do almost every weekend, by the way). I was reading a great blog post by Dave O’Connor and I started browsing his blog and went back to his early logs, and I noticed that he was just writing.

He was just … writing his thoughts publicly without too many complications or wanting to sound “too smart” (he is a very smart guy), and that really triggered something in me. I said, that’s what I want! Yes, I like software engineering and I wanna write about software engineering stuff, but I also wanna talk about running, gaming, my thoughts about life, my struggles, and also about the fun movie I saw last weekend in the cinema.

Am I worried that people would find my blogs not interesting? Yes. Am I worried that I am not qualified enough to talk about things? Yes. Am I worried that English is my second language and even after more than 6 years of using it professionally I still make stupid mistakes? Heck yes.

I can honestly list another 10 excuses why I should not be doing this, but I really wanna try! I wanna give it a chance! Maybe it is for me and maybe it is not, but I cannot say without giving it a try.

So yeah, I am scared but also excited about this! I wanna talk about so many software engineering topics and how I learned what I have learned so far in my career, I wanna tell you about my running journey and about the races I have lined up in 2026.

Welcome here. See you in the next post.