Post number one. I’m primarily putting this here just to have … something on the page. Honestly, it just feels good to write. I have huge ideas for this blog, with my main goals being:
- For at least one person to read it
- For at least one person to read it and feel happy
- To use my experience, both lived and learned, to educate and inspire
- Let the thoughts in my brain out in a healthy, occasionally artistic way
As a recent college grad (as I’m writing this in January 2022), it did not take me long to realize how much of life is up to me now. I was being thrown into independence in so many ways, including starting a new job, living alone, in a new neighborhood, half of my friends moving away, and trying to calculate how to fit it all (and afford it all) in 24 hours. I had to find a way to stay afloat.
If life is an ocean, most of our life we are tethered to a boat, dragged along to a destination no one tells us about, until one day the rope is cut, and we must figure out how to not just swim, but where we’re going. Maybe we immediately search for land, maybe we dive beneath the surface, maybe we follow the crowd, maybe we hold our breath and float. I’ll probably write a post one day about the craziness of this past fall – figuring out how to swim, the amount of seawater I had to swallow to do so, and how much I still have to learn about navigating the waters, but for now all I can say is the following:
What I crave most of all is the feeling of giving 150% of yourself to something. It can be anything – a person, a hobby, a job, a relationship, a business, a routine, a cause. In today’s day and age, Our efforts and spirits are spread thin amongst the hundreds of things to click, forms to fill, people to text, and materials to buy, that we can forget how rewarding it is to pause and slow down. This blog will be that for me. I know there will be challenges – I have around 40 ideas for the blog, and they all require so much time that I feel the need to ask the Earth to spin at a slower rate – but I know it’ll be worth it because at the end of the day; I put my all into it, even the silly posts I’m going to make about my favorite albums, or a poem about snow, or a debate over paper or plastic. I’m doing it not just to do it, but to have done it.
So, that’s why.
