For me, it was I was told I might die for about 8 months from September 1998 to May 1999 when they finally figured out I had had a heart virus through the process of elimination. When I started searching around that year for other Heart virus survivors I was the only one I found in California.
So, I sort of gave up searching for Heart virus survivors and just considered myself lucky. Then my Dermatologist didn't want me as a patient because his 20 something cousin had died of a heart virus and I reminded him of this every time I visited him so he gave me and my wife as patients to another doctor. This was okay I understood.
While I had been waiting around October 1998 at Stanford Medical near Stanford university along with about 60 or more other heart patients on guerneys waiting to have various procedures conducted regarding our hearts I swore to God that if I ever survived all this that I would start a blog to share my experiences with God all my life. I realized my fears of not sharing my experiences were actually stupid and began to realize what a loss it would be if I died without sharing with mankind my experiences. So, when I was told in May 1999 that I had had a heart virus and that most people died of their heart viruses then but by some miracle I had survived I realized I needed to share the miracle I had lived as well as all the miracles in my life. So, I started a Blog site (they weren't called that then) at Geocities for free). However, then you had to program in HTML the whole thing basically and write and you couldn't easily put pictures and I don't think videos would work at all unless you were some kind of hot shot Html programmer.
Though I had learned Cobol and Fortran and had learned Basic and had taught my kids to program in Basic on our early computers, I was only OK with HTML and had basically taught myself how to do this by grabbing a yahoo page (the software allowed that easier there and playing with the programs variables until I learned enough to start my website at geocities.
Then in Fall 2007 I read about a lady who had developed her business around her blogger.com website so I thought I would try Blogspot or Blogger.com
It worked out pretty well and over time I found my voice and my audience eventually worldwide. I learned what I liked to compile and write about and over time I learned what my audience liked as well.
The 2nd is much harder to grasp for most people. In other words, "What you expect people want isn't necessarily what they actually want."
There is a reason for this. It is: "That people share with other people and this sharing is what makes articles and pictures and videos go viral."
So, it isn't totally logical why people want to look at anything written or any pictures or any videos.
They just do what they do and you can learn from this somewhat.
And that's what blogging is all about. In the end it's not about you as the blogger, it's what the readers want to look at and see and hear in the end. It's not about you it's about what they want to see and read and hear and that's it.
So, the best you can do is to offer them enough variety so that they can choose themselves what is important to them and what they are going to not be interested in as much.
If something seems important to you, often this is a good start for you as the blogger.
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