Thursday, May 2, 2013

"But Ma, Everybody's Doing It!"

It seems like everywhere I look people are starting new blogs! I kind of want to blame Pinterest for that, you know? We can log into a site that takes us to literally thousands of blogs ranging from how to get the perfect side-swept bangs to making your own mosquito repellant out of an old milk carton. And they're so cute! I want to be a cute Pinterest-y blogger with comfy sweaters and big scarves, sitting next to a roaring fire listening to Etta James on my record player, sipping tea and pounding out an intellectually stimulating recap of my day/week. But as comforting as that image is, that's not really the reason I decided to re-start my blog. So I digress!

I love communication. LOVE it. But words can be really hard for me because a lot of the time I have difficulty putting my emotions, feelings, and thoughts into proper words. I think that's why I got into music during middle/high school. You can emphasize how you're feeling just by changing up how forcefully you play. I also think that's why I am ridiculously in love with Florence + the Machine. I feel as though her voice and emotions are what makes her music so fantastic. Her lyrics are great, but it's her inflections that really get you. Anyways! The reason I started up my blog was two-fold, with the first part being that I simply enjoy communication and writing. I'd like to get better at it, and practice apparently makes perfect, so..

The second was that I'm going to Thailand in like 10 days! So this will be a chance for me to get my thoughts and emotions down or else they'll slip past and I'll lose them. While there my team and I will be doing things like working with college students who are learning ESL (English as a second language), orphanage work, prayer walks. That sort of thing. It's going to be amazing and I'm more than confidant that God is going to do things in me (and the team) that will change me (again, and the team) and my views of God, the world, people, etc etc etc. So maybe this blog will be a chance for me to allow whoever feels like reading these updates to get a glimpse at who I really am, and how I think. I'm not super open about my own personal feelings all the time (well, at least not to people outside of my immediate family), so it'll be nice to allow people to see me for me, you know? Right?

RIGHT!

So yeah. I don't know how it's going to go yet, but I'm going to try to do it. I mean, everyone else seems to be able to do it! At least I'll get an A for effort. :)

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