Why Am I Blogging, Again?

"Isn't blogging for hipsters?"

"Didn't you want to write fiction?"

"Is this just another project/blog/thing that you're going to fizzle out on?"

"What are you going to write about anyway? You're nothing special and who would want to read about your life?"

My mind has been bombarding me with reasons not to blog. Well, I want to silence that little nagging voice of doubt.

Yeah, so what if hipsters blog? Don't hate.

So what if my main drive is to write fiction and short stories and be a famous writer? Got to start somewhere and get an awareness for myself.

So what if it's just another "project"? If I don't challenge myself, I won't get anywhere. If I fizzle out on this, I'll just catch flack from my other friends who are bloggers, and those who know me well enough to know how dedicated I wish to be to my writing. I'll probably feel guilty about it, too. The lessons of growing up Catholic are still with me, mom!

What am I going to write about? Daily life here in Beaumont, once a small town that discovered oil, that became a boring, dried out(that's a metaphor, it rains all the time) suburb of Houston, and now it's a Boomtown again, growing and reforming itself into something better. I'm also going to write about myself. About important issues in life that everyone thinks about but no one thinks they're important enough to blog about. I'm 23 years old and about to be a Master's Degree Dropout. What in the world will I talk about? Stick around and see!

My upcoming post will be about "The Grown-Up Question" and how a 20-something year old navigates the precarious REAL transition to adult-hood. At a certain point, you have to realize "later" is Now.

I'll leave you with a quote:


Don’t you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it? Something that touches you with joy or with terror, that lifts you out of your safe little path and onto a great wild road whose ending nobody knows? - Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows

Until next time, be at peace and find joy and wonder in your day!