Do people still blog?
I miss it. I really do. I was always a “writer”. I always had a diary as a child. I still carry around an agenda to write down all my appointments and keep track of my day. For three years I consistently updated a blog with photos and paragraphs about my life. Not because I thought anyone would be particularly interested, but just because I enjoyed doing so.
For me, writing is therapeutic. It allowed me to examine my life as I wrote about it. It helped me deal with difficult situations. While in Japan, my friends and I used to say, “this will make a great blog post!” about every situation that didn’t go as planned. That outlook – the mindset that, looking back, this isn’t going to be a big deal – helped me navigate difficult times in my life. And I did always look back and laugh. I reread my posts and remember the feelings of anxiety and fear, but also of adventure and experience.
So, as I navigate now through a new phase of my life – becoming a mother – I turn back to what has always aided me: writing. What this new blog will turn out to be or how it will fit into my life, business, etc, has yet to be decided. But hey, it’s no fun if it’s all predictable right out the gate, eh?
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