Back to you: Do you tell people you blog?

Source: Who knows that you blog?

The truth is complicated and organic. I share my website publicly where I am known as @gurupanguji. This includes spaces where I am known by my real name and by this handle.

Two years ago, I wrote a related post about blogging anonymously versus using a real name. That reflection was part of a larger search. I have always searched for my identity. Now, I am becoming comfortable with the idea that I might not have one. That is my identity.

My sharing habits waver. Sometimes I openly share that I blog here. Other times I do not. Sometimes this blog is prolific (like right now). Other times, years pass without a single post.

I know this about myself: I like to write. It is how I think, process, and communicate. It is how I met the love of my life and found job opportunities.

I am both private and public. I keep journals alongside this blog. The line between private and public changes, but the writing does not. I have often believed there is a singular audience for this writing: me. Still, I am pleasantly surprised that others care. Thank you.

I am a work in progress. I respect those sure of who they are and what they want to be. I am not. I am just starting to get comfortable voicing that.