Why I Ditched My Purchased Domain Name and Returned to Free Blogger

source: canva.com It's been a while since I've let out my inner voice. To just write. Write. Irregardless of readership, of SEO. What do I need SEO for, anyway? I am not a business. I started this blog, never as a business. I started it to write. To have a plot of virtual real estate for my poems, stories and essays that I'm too proud to share with the people closest to me. Because somehow, it is harder for me to show the entirety of who I am to the most important people in my life. As to the why, I have no answer. Perhaps it's self-preservation. Perhaps it's to protect them. There can be a lot of dark corners in my mind. Questions that might not sit well with the common beliefs each one of them clings to. Reality is not the same for everyone. Think of a child born in the comforts of a western home, and then think about a child born to the deafening noise of war somewhere in the middle east. Think of a child born in the tropic...