Blogging

I started blogging almost a year ago. Firstly it was to deal with stress. The stress of exams, relationships, living in a terrible house in which I didn't mesh with two thirds of the housemates, and in all honestly, I intended it to be temporary. I mean, who would want to read about what I have to say anyway? My life is so  completely ordinary. But as analytical and logical as I can be as a science undergrad, I need to vent myself creatively. This in time lead to the thing I used to vent personally becoming my friend, and not just the program, but all the silent, anonymous readers of it from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming if you think about it. People from countries that I've never even visited have read my blog and my rants, and I see it as part of a statistic on a tab on my home-screen but it's actually pretty amazing.

My blog has been part of my sanity over the last year, and it's been there when I've needed it the most.

I'm quiet, I don't always talk about how I feel or my opinions. Writing them down is so much easier, even if they remain unfinished, unpublished. A thought lasts a moment, but it can be so amazing, beautiful even, to document them, preserve them and also to share them. It makes me feel a little less alone in the world.

Tomorrow I turn 21. Now 21 isn't like 20. To me it just feels so grown - up. So I'm taking control of my life, getting organised and really going for what I want out of life. Now this means I'm going to need my blog more than I have done over the last 11 months, and I'm going to aim to blog regularly. So every week I'm going to aim to blog on a topic completely unrelated to what's going on with me, but just to write about something a little different, a release.

I'll keep you posted ;)

Thank you all for your continued reading, I feel like I have 500 psychiatrists!

XOX