Okay, so truth time. The blogosphere intimidates the sh*t out of me. Now, don't get me wrong; I've been reading blogs since I was about 13, and back in the days of OpenDiary and Xanga, I was all about sharing my adolescent woes with unfiltered abandon. As blogs started becoming a means of artistic expression, however, I lost my gusto for sharing with the entire world how much I wanted a boyfriend and how lousy my hair had turned out from my last box job hair dying excursion. Suddenly, I felt irrelevant and, frankly, boring. I became an internet recluse, deleting my former blogs and changing the settings on my LiveJournal to private, no visitors allowed beware of dog KEEP OUT.
So why am I here, you wonder? Good question. I suppose I'm here because I am ready to challenge myself. The past year of my life has been a whirlwind of changes, for better and for worse. I am ready to put my thoughts out there again and to dare the world to put up with me.
I would love to say that I have some epic goal for this blog, like that Julie & Julia chick, because that's how you get books published and prove, once and for all, that your thoughts are valid and interesting. For now, though, I'll summarize with this: I want to document my intellectual and emotional growth. I have spent the better part of 2011 hiding from my fears and letting myself believe that other people have more to say than I do, but that's simply not the person that I want to be anymore.
So look out, Internet. I'm back.
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