I wish I could write on this thing more often, but it always takes me so long and I try to make it too perfect (my version of "perfect" at least). So, if you see the grammar/English of my next few blog posts suffer, my apologies but this must be sacrificed for the sake new material. I also sometimes have trouble finding something to write about; topics will pop up in my brain all the time, but I often don't think I can elaborate on them or wonder if anyone would even care to read about that. Then I remember that the readers of this blog are made up of my mom, my best friend, a couple teammates, and the occasional friend who happens to stumble upon it. And most of the people in this small group don't even read it regularly. So after trimming down my pride a bit, I decided that this blog is for me! My thoughts, my opinions, my conversation topics, and my grammar rules.
This is meant as no disrespect towards my few faithful followers (I love you Mom, Kaley, Diz), and nothing will honestly change because I've been writing whatever I wanted to anyways, just a formal declaration of what I would like for this blog. It started one year ago as an assignment for my second semester English class where we were looking at how things are "mapped." For our final assignment the professor asked us to do an independent project that looked at how people map themselves. What better way to do this than start a blog? My thoughts exactly. Through this blog I am literally "mapping" my life on the invisible realm of the internet. I'm leaving a trail behind that helps show my journey through life with each post. I'm helping myself remember what I was thinking at a particular moment in time, what events were going on in my life, who I was with, how I felt, etc. I of course will remember most of these things in my memory (which is such a cool little device we all come with if you think about it-it's like a permanent video recorder in your head!), but I can never remember word for word or as well as I do in this moment here and now, and that's what this blog is for! To chart my course and help others see what direction I'm going in as well.
I suppose I could just talk with people close to me and tell them these things, and for some readers I probably will, but it's kind of funny how it is easier to write things than say things a lot of the time; forcing people to read what you have to say instead of you just telling them. After all, isn't it the same message in the end? I've always preferred writing: you are given more time to think through how you really feel and pose your message in the way you'd like so the reader will understand what you want to get across. I sometimes forget though that a reader cannot hear the inflection in your voice, see the expression on your face, or feel the intention of your heart (the smiley and winkey faces of texting would indeed come in handy here, maybe I'll start a new trend), and this is the only drawback I find to writing. Writing also takes a lot more time than talking, and since lack of time was what began this post, I will stop here because I love when things come full circle.
