Even If It's Imperfect
I started this blog when I was seventeen. I thought of it as a way to share my thoughts about different things in a way that was more developed and thought out than a tweet or an Instagram caption. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested in what I had to say, but I knew I wanted to write. I wanted to express myself in some way, and this felt like a good option. From the beginning, my posting has been somewhat irregular. I wrote with some frequency during my junior and senior years of high school, and then took a hiatus for a two-year period while I lived in Mexico. When I returned home, I intended to come back to the blog and write on a regular schedule. I still felt interested in having this creative outlet, and I was excited to post on the blog again. But my activity on the blog has been much more limited than I would have liked it to be since that time. There were, of course, global and personal events that got in the way. Starting college -- and then moving home after less ...