Everyone’s got to start somewhere

In all of the chaos of this first post-grad summer, I’ve been in a mental state of disarray. It comes with the territory — moving cities, starting a new job, and slowly accepting that the college lifestyle is truly behind me — but that self-awareness doesn’t make the transition any easier.

It struck me about a month into my new life that I was lacking a creative outlet… or maybe just mental stimulation in general. What used to be writing essays and reading works from the world’s greatest minds had been replaced by hours of YouTube videos and endless online shopping. I wasn’t being productive, and I wasn’t even remotely trying to better myself in any way — and what’s worse, all of that unused energy was coming out in the form of a bad attitude and a lack of enthusiasm for the great job that I had landed.

Today, then, I am making a change. I have always loved writing and excelled at it in the scholarly world, so a blog seems only fitting. I don’t expect that it will go anywhere, or serve any grand purpose other than to help me organize the thoughts in this disarrayed mind of mine and give me some practice with less formal writing. I could journal, sure, but blogging gives that extra incentive to write with accountability and to write well — because you never know who might stumble upon your words one day.

This is my pledge to myself that I will write often, and write about my experience — the thoughts that I often have in passing, that should be explored and expanded on. Who knows where those thoughts might be able to take me?