Sharing What I Love Without Pushing It on Anyone

I Like This, and That's Enough

The other day, a sudden thought crossed my mind while deciding on labels (which are categories in typical blogs) for my Blogger site.

Sharing something with others is fine, but...

Using "Recommended [Things]" as a category felt a bit like forcing my own hobbies, interests, and empathy onto others.

Doesn't everyone (or maybe it's just me who thinks this) take a step back when something is actively recommended to them?

Besides, am I really in a position to be recommending things to people?

To be more straightforward:

"My Favorite [Things]"

That feels much more fitting.

I have no intention of writing textbooks or manuals.

I am not in a position to recommend anything to anyone.

I should simply express my experiences and impressions just as they are.

I grew tired of using cheap tricks to get people to read my posts, and I hated the feeling that my online presence was turning into that of a salesman.

“Am I not writing for my friends? Or is that not it?”

I started questioning myself.

What triggered these thoughts was a feeling that, in this supposedly free internet world, I am constantly being bombarded with things every single day.

Without realizing it, we are caught in an endless back-and-forth of "How about this? How about that?"

Perhaps I am just fed up with this digital equivalent of handing out flyers (which also applies to online ads).

And then I wonder: “Am I handing out flyers too?”

It might be a trivial thing.

Maybe nobody else thinks about this.

In fact, they probably don't care at all.

"I like [this]."

That is enough.

Of course, I still have the desire to share the things I love with someone.

But I realized it is enough to just write about them honestly on my blog.

I don't need to push it any further than that.

"I highly recommend this" is too strong.

It is enough to simply leave a record of what I experienced and what I loved.

I won't even ask people to read it.

It is enough that I exist freely on the internet.

After all, I am not a salesman.