4/09/2018

Why you need a blogger friend (if you as well have a blog)


Find someone who looks at you the way Ana and I pretend look at each other while we are taking photos. 😂 Now, seriously, if you yourself have a blog, it can get pretty lonely if you don't have a blogger friend. Or it may not get lonely, but it's definitely less fun. That's why the best bloggers come in pairs. Well, they don't exactly come in pairs, but how many times have you seen a two (or more) bloggers in one photo on Instagram? Here you go, case closed. 😃 In reality, I don't know how many bloggers have actual blogger friends, but I was lucky enough to find one and that happened pretty early in my blogger career. Back then it wasn't even a career for me, I was just a girl who had a blog (and honestly no clue what I was doing) and I was invited to my first ''event''. At the time I was doing mainly (or should I say only) beauty posts so it was a beauty event and all of the bloggers there were beauty bloggers. How many times can a person type beauty in one sentence? Anyways, I've never met a fellow blogger before and I didn't really know how to socialize with other bloggers so I spent the most time talking about beauty products (as I thought I should) and checking out who has the prettiest business cards (I didn't have mine at the time so I was genuinely curious). I didn't spend that much time talking to Ana and she had to leave early, but it was the event when we met.

Pronađite nekoga ko vas gleda onako kako se Ana i ja pretvaramo da se gledamo kad slikamo za blog. 😂 Ali ozbiljno, ako imate blog možete da se osećate prilično usamljeno ako nemate blogerskog prijatelja. Ili ne baš usamljeno, ali će vam sigurno biti manje zabavno. Zato najbolji blogeri dolaze u paru. Dobro, ne baš u paru, ali koliko ste puta na Instagramu videli dve (ili više blogerki) na jednoj slici. Eto dokaza. 😃 U stvarnosti, ne znam koliko blogera ima prave blogerske prijatelje, ja sam imala sreće da pronađem jednog i to prilično rano u mojoj blogerskoj karijeri. Tada to nije bila ni nikakva karijera, samo sam imala blog (i iskreno nisam imala pojma šta radim) i bila pozvana na svoj prvi ''događaj''. Tada sam radila uglavnom (ili da kažem samo) postove o lepoti pa je takav bio i događaj i sve blogerke su bile ''beauty'' blogerke. Pre toga nikada nisam upoznala neku drugu blogerku pa sam provela sve vreme pričajući o proizvodima (jer sam mislila da to tako treba) i gledajući ko ima najlepše vizit kartice (u to vreme nisam imala svoje pa sam bila iskreno radoznala). Nisam baš puno pričala sa Anom i ona je morala da ode ranije, ali to je bio događaj na kome smo se upoznale.


Fast forward to the time when we actually bonded. It was an event with a weird vibe and a lots of wine, which is normally a type of occasion that brings people closer together. After the event we went out for more drinks (and more bonding) and I remember feeling a certain type of happiness I've never felt before (it wasn’t from drinking 😅). That was a felling of finding a blogger who looks at blogging the same way you do. Since then we've been the best blogging buddies in every way possible and now I couldn't even imagine life without a good blogger friend in it. I could go on and on about why it's important to have such a friend, but I'll list a couple of the reasons below for those of you who don't like to read long, elaborate posts (which this certainly is).

1) They have the same strange habits you have


When I'm with my non blogger friends (or in my day to day life in general) I don't really take photos, boomerangs, Insta stories or things like that. I was always like this, so most of my friends I've met outside of the blogging world are also like that. I can't imagine sitting with my best friend and being like, hey, let's take a selfie. But, when I'm with Ana we both know we will be taking photos and sharing mostly everything we do, because that's all part of our blogging routine. We don't mind rearranging the whole apartment just to take one photo, or boomerang-ing our glasses of wine touching each other to perfection.

Da premotam do vremena kada smo se zapravo zbližile. To je bilo opet na nekom blogerskom dešavanju sa čudnom atmosferom i dosta vina, što je normalno tip prilike u kojoj se ljudi zbliže. Posle događaja smo otišle na piće (i još zbližavanja) i sećam se da sam osetila određenu vrstu sreće koju nikada ranije nisam osetila (nije bilo od alkohola 😅). Osećaje je bio izazvan time što sam pronašla nekoga ko na blogovanje gleda isto kao i ja. Od tada smo najbolji blogerski prijatelji u svakom smislu i sada ne bih ni mogla da zamislim život bez takvog prijatelja. Mogu do sutra da vam pišem o tome zašto je bitno imati takvog prijatelja, ali bolje da ispod nabrojim razloge za one od vas koji ne vole duge, opširne postove (što ovaj svakako jeste).

1) Imaju iste čudne navike koje vi imate


Kada sam sa svojim prijateljima koji nemaju blogove (ili u životu generalno) ne slikam baš slike, boomerang, Insta storije i ostalo. Uvek sam bila takva, pa je i većina mojih prijatelja koje sam upoznala van blogosfere takva. Ne mogu ni da zamislim da sedim sa svojom najboljom drugaricom i da kažem; hajde da slikamo selfije. Sa druge strane, kada sam sa Anom obe znamo da će tu biti slikanja i deljenja uglavnom svega što radimo, jer je to deo naše blogerske rutine. Ne smeta nam da ispremeštamo ceo stan da bismo slikale jednu sliku, ili da snimamo čaše koje se kuckaju dok ne dostignemo savršenstvo.


2) They understand your struggles


If Ana told me she stayed up until 6 AM to make sure her Instagram widget on the blog worked the way she wanted, or when I told her I'm losing my mind about redesigning my newsletter, we would nod while completely understanding. And it goes for just about anything, brand collaborations, photo sizes, lack of inspiration... Your blogger friend has been there and most likely has an advice on how to fix the matter.


2) Razumeju vaše muke


Kada bi mi Ana rekla da je ostala budna do 6 ujutru da bi namestila Instagram widget za blog kako je zamislila, ili kada bih joj ja rekla da se nerviram oko dizajniranja novog newsletter-a za blog, obe bismo savršeno razumele. Dok bi nekome sa strane ove stvari delovale kao gluposti. I tako je sa mnogim stvarima, saradnjama sa brendovima, veličinom slika, nedostatkom inspiracije... Blogerski prijatelj je sve to preživeo i najčešće ima savet kako da rešite problem.


3) They got your back


We all make mistakes in life, and your blogger friend is the first one who will get on top of that. That super cool idea you have? Run it by them to see if it's indeed a really great idea or everybody else is doing it. Spelling mistake that can affect your post a lot? Your blogger friend is on it, letting you know ASAP so you can fix it. I have million examples on how a friend who works in the same field can help you.


3) Čuvaju vam leđa


Svi grešimo u životu pa tako i u blogovanju, i blogerski prijatelj je prvi koji će da priskoči u pomoć. Ta sjajna ideja koju imate? Proverite sa njima da li je zaista sjajna ili je nešto što svi već rade. Slovna greška koja dosta može da utiče na post? Javiće vam što pre da biste mogli to da ispravite. Imam još milion primera kako prijatelj koji radi isto što i vi može da vam pomogne.


4) Things are just so much more fun when you have someone to share it with


And lastly, when someone completely understands what you do, they will understand every obstacle of joy you encounter. You just can't wait to share good news with them because you know they will know exactly what it means and you will dissect every bad thing that happened and find a lesson in it. You know the feeling when you are doing something super fun and you want someone you care about to be there with you so you can share it with them? Well, when you have a blogger friend chances are that you will be visiting the same places and doing the same things, which will make it ten times better.

4) Sve je mnogo zanimljivije kada imate nekoga sa kim to možete da podelite


I poslednje, kada neko u potpunosti razume to što radite, razumeće i svaku prepreku ili radost. Jedva čekate da sa njima podelite dobre vesti jer znate da će znati koliko vam to znači. Zajedo ćete da analizirare i sve što nije najbolje prošlo i izvučete lekcije iz toga. Znate onaj osećaj kada radite nešto jako zabavno i želite da neko do koga vam je stalo bude tu da biste mogli da podelite to iskustvo sa njima? Kada imate blogerskog prijatelja verovatno ćete da posećujete ista mesta i da radite dosta stvari zajedno, pa je sve deset puta zanimljivije.


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