Say whaaaaaat?
I've managed to keep writing and posting regularly (ish) for five whole years.
Yup.
If you'd have told me, back when I was but a young thing of 24, that I'd still be doing this five years later I'd have laughed you out of town. I know that blogs aren't really diaries but they are an ongoing record, a log if you will, of what I'm doing and how I'm feeling, so that's what I'll compare it to. When Mitch and I packed up all our worldly possessions to move to Peckham I came across about 5 years worth of diaries (1998 being the earliest) and do you know what they all had in common (except for terrible handwriting and rather cringey but hilarious outbursts on young teenage feeling)? I never wrote anything in them past April. I'm all eager and dedicated in the those first few months then something happens around the second week of April, enthusiasm wanes and I apparently can't be arsed anymore. Calendars, for the most part, suffer the same fate. Why I do this I have no idea. And if you go by my track record this blog should've come to an ubrupt end back in the middle of April 2011 but, it didn't :)
I know it's been a bit quiet around here the last few months, posts have been sporadic at best, what can I say, I've been busy; the kind of busy that's not really worth blogging about to be brutally honest. That's life, I guess. I've been busy doing life.
Every anniversary this blog (and me to an extent) go through a mini transformation and this year is no different. On account of me living life and generally just getting on with things, I predict that the posts on here will continue to be few and far between but then that's just one of the reasons why blogging is great. I don't feel the pressure to update it all the time but I know it's my little plot on the internet to return to and cultivate whenever I choose to do so.
In case you find tumbleweeds blowing across this thing or you simply must know what I'm doing, I'll most probably be here, snapping away like the instagram addict I am, or here (I'd somewhat fallen out of love with Twitter but I think there's something to be salvaged). Do come and find me :) All that remains to say is: thank you. Thank you for reading and commenting on my adventures over the years, the community aspect of blogging really is the best thing about it and you, my friends, are ace.
Eeek I hope everything is going well at home! I found all my diaries recently and I was cringing so hard at them, one entry said 'i didn't have much to do at break so I went to the toilet'. I mean, what?
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 5 years!! Here's to another! x
Congratulations! Yes blogging or just writing in general is so hard to do on the reg, many times I just need to take a pause to live life, experience something new or difficult. Gain perspective and then come back to blogging to write what I've learned. I always love seeing your posts, so don't apologize. Live life!
ReplyDeleteHappy blog birthday! I, too, really value my blog as a diary I've actually managed to keep up (similarly to you, I never managed to keep an actual diary going past April). And I've just realised that this March was also my 5th birthday, which somehow passed me by entirely.
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