Some days I feel days I feel like logging off and going dark
for entire weekends and days at a time.
I suppose that’s what happens when one morphs something that
was pleasure into business, answering
questions about how to create a Facebook
page and whether Facebook advertising
is a worthwhile endeavor instead of just simply connecting and encouraging via all
the social media platforms I’ve come to embrace.
I remember having this same sort of existential crisis about
blogging when people first started offering to pay me to write; if I were to
make writing on my blog a job, would that make the passion part fizzle and
fade?
Could I be true to my art and still be compensated for a skill I’ve been
graciously given and have proceeded to hone since I first picked up a pencil
and began penning stories in second grade?
Eventually I found my groove and decided how best to write
with abandon from the heart and still accept compensation for my skill and time,
but not without a whole lot of mulling and chewing and spitting out that which
was bitter or didn’t match the flavors I’d spent so long cultivating.
Because, sort of like with coffee beans, you don’t want to
ruin the blend you’ve been working so hard to create.
I think this is likely the same as with merging the pleasure
side of social media with that of the business end. Sometimes the perfect cup
of coffee doesn’t just happen. Sometimes it takes a while to blend the two
together, a stirring of two really good things – like cream into coffee
requires measure. And lots and lots of tasting.
All that tasting often takes remembering that when combined
well, the two complement each other quite beautifully.
And perhaps make the brew all the better.
