To say I’ve
wanted to start a blog for a long time but was never sure where to start or
what to call it would be largely cliché and entirely truthful.
I’ve always
written. When I was younger I’d write and draw out short stories that my family
would humor me by reading, as I got into middle school I decided to create and
write a newsletter for myself and some of my classmates, then I sort of stopped
sharing what I was writing. I never stopped writing itself, I just turned it a
bit more inward than it had been in the past. Writing became a way for me to
get my thoughts out of the jumble of my head and somewhere where I could
potentially start to see a pattern or sort them out otherwise. Since then, I
started to write for others in a couple instances – I blogged my semester
abroad in Australia, I wrote for the Student Leader Collective for close to a
year, I even took a couple creative writing classes. With each of those I let
little bits of personal writing slip in – a bit of an emotional leadership post about how much my
leadership experiences meant to me, a blog about a trip that contained photos I
was truly proud of as an aspiring photographer, a short story that shared some dark
secrets even if no one knew they were such.
Since those
things have wrapped up though I’ve been itching to get back onto some sort of
platform to share some sort of writing, maybe even things that aren’t such a
set topic and just whatever I feel like talking about, however personal or not,
deep or superficial, anything at all. That’s where this comes in, yay new blog!
I’m not sure
what all I will be putting up here or how frequently I will be posting. My
thoughts right now do include some book review-y type posts, looking back on
travel experiences, personal what’s going on, and just other random bits of
life. May not sound great, and may not end up great, but I am excited to try it
out and see where this takes me.
In fact, I
am currently reading “If
You Feel Too Much” by Jamie Tworkowski, the founder of TWLOHA. I started it on the plane down to Mexico
City (work trip) and got about halfway through – I hope to finish it this week
or on the plane ride home on Friday. I have a feeling that it will definitely
turn into a blog post in the near future.
I’ve also
done quite a bit of traveling in the past 8 or so months that I’ve never really
shared stories from that I would love to get out there - those will probably
get queued up soon too.
The fact is,
as I’m writing this post I’m reinforcing my own desire to have this blog and to
start writing things to share with others again. I’m getting excited and hope
that if there’s anyone even reading this that you are too.
So with
that, let’s make today great and do what we can to be kind to and help others.
From Mexico
City - TTFN
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