Blog posts are becoming few and far between these days. And when I do sit down to write one they all seem to be life updates nowadays. But this update is a big one. A really big one. I still firmly believe that writing is my form of therapy, trust me the conventional form doesn’t work on me. I’ve tried twice now. And quoting the incredible Matt Haig here as I’ve just started reading his book: ‘words, spoken or written, are what connect us to the world’ and ‘words, just sometimes, can set us free’. I wholeheartedly agree with those quotes. So that’s why I’m choosing to tell you guys the biggest piece of news i’ve ever had to tell in the form of a written blog post. Because I get my words out best and be truly honest by writing them down, not saying them. And writing gives me a sense of detachment to process whats happening and the opportunity to be a bit poetic and metaphorical. I’m not gonna pass up on that am I.
So it’s been a year.
A year since I was sat alone feeling very lost on the heels of my first taste of heartbreak one night in my tiny halls of residence room in my flat at uni, and I decided almost on impulse to click sign up on the Weebly website to create my blog and my website account. Hey everyone and welcome back to my blog. So for todays post I thought I would do a classic new year post and share with you all some of my goals for this new year. I’m choosing to set goals rather than resolutions as I find that resolutions add an element of pressure to stick to them and can often be set just for the sake of it. Whereas a goal is something that can be achieved without a specific time frame and it’s often something you really want to happen and want to achieve. I did this last year and set goals instead and I found that it worked much better and I actually stuck to them and I achieved a lot. But that’s for another time.
Hi everyone. This is a huge spur of the moment post. I have just had a sudden urge to write which hasn't happened for a while. Stuff has been going on and life has just got in the way of blogging which has really upset me but life and shit happens unfortunately. I had so many ideas and ambitions for what I wanted to do with my blog but pretty much everything in life has had to take a backseat lately. This is the first time that I've actually wanted to sit and write something for a while so I'm taking the time to do it before it dwindles. Let me explain why the title is the way it is...
Hey everyone. So as you all know my birthday is coming up really soon, THIS WEEK ACTUALLY OMGGG, and this birthday is a special one. I’m turning 20!!!! Can you believe that. Because I can’t. I still feel like a ten year old. I mean I still love high school musical and girls aloud and cheese puffs so I’m not far off to be fair. But as this birthday looms it means the start of a new decade and a new chapter in my life and I’m so bloody excited for it. Everyone says your 20’s are a crazy and wild ride and I’m so excited to start the ride and see what happens in this next decade. But I’m mainly excited to leave my teens behind because honestly it hasn’t been the nicest chapter of my life… school days ARE NOT THE BEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. Parents you fucking lied to me. But I’ll come to that another time because I have many feelings about my teen years that I wanna talk about and reflect on. Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog for another post. So as I am now in my second year of university. I thought I would share with you all the things I regretted about my first year of uni. There are several things I learned and hopefully this post could help someone avoid falling into the same traps I did. So keep reading to see my regrets and what I would change if I could. I started writing this a few weeks ago when I was in the midst of an IBS flare up and none of my clothes would fit me. I wasn’t gonna publish it but I thought someone else may feel the same way and it might resonate with someone so I thought why not. So thats the context for ya. I’ve just added this lil paragraph in as I edit the post and finalise it. So keep reading to see what I'm on about with this post... Hey everyone and welcome back to my blog for another post. Today I thought I would just sit down and write something casual about stuff that’s being going lately. Because as much as I wanted to really get into blogging consistently this summer I just haven’t really done it. And there are a few reasons for it. But I also just wanna catch you guys up as to where I am with life generally. So grab a cuppa and let’s have a catch up. I don’t know why this happens but my best and most random ideas and inspirations come to me late at night just when I think, maybe I should go to bed. This is another one of those ideas. I don’t want this to come across as me just bragging and/or being narcissistic, I mean I can be like that sometimes & there’s a confession for you, but not today. I’ll save it for another time. In this new crazy world of technology and new career opportunities of millennials and generation Z as well in some cases, we’re always comparing ourselves to everyone else we see. The blogger who has over 100K followers on Instagram or the youtuber who got 2 million views for a 24 hour challenge video. That’s fucking incredible and achievement and success should be celebrated in this community all the time where it is deserved. But there is something that we are not doing. And it’s actually something really important in my opinion. You can’t deny that this industry of blogging and influencing is extremely saturated these days. There are SO many bloggers now. SO many. All producing kick ass content. It is so competitive. And that fact alone can put some people off starting at all. I know it did put me off for ages. It is impossible to keep up with everything, support everyone that you follow even though you want to as best as you can and read / consume it all because it comes in different forms and it is constant and on demand. Even more so than the amount of box sets and movies on SkyQ. And that’s A LOT you guys. This is a biggie. Sitting here writing this one. Part of me feels like it’s ‘too negative’ to publish and that I should keep it for private eyes. But. Blog posts can’t all be happy and fluffy like candy floss because that isn’t real life. You’d soon run out of stuff to talk about if it was all fluffy and there wasn’t anything gritty or posts that get you thinking or questioning something in your life. This question has been in my head before I even hit publish on the first version of my blog page / website back in January, fuck that feels like forever ago but also like yesterday. V weird. This question was one of the things that stopped me taking the plunge on this blog thing sooner and it plays on my mind constantly. Seriously. It does. So I ask you, and i’m being dead serious. |
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