The younger, teenage iteration of me had a strong penchant for documenting various objects and moments about my (obviously fascinating) suburban high school and early university life. Over the last decade I've tried to run a blog or something similar at least five different times on five different platforms -- LiveJournal, Tumblr, Listography, Blogger/Blogspot, and Wordpress. None of them ever stuck, and my interest in each would duly fade in time. I think the strongest of these endeavors was when my closest high school girlfriends and I started a K-Pop/Asian entertainment website (A POP! of Asia, we called it), curating announcements and news about our favorite East Asian musicians and bands of the moment. But as we outgrew the interest (and were faced with AP classes and our post-high school futures), that ceased to survive as well.
Needless to say, I am more than two years out of college now and itching to create content again.
June through July, I went through a tumultuous period of self-reflection and spent a lot of time re-connecting with my values and the things that guide me and give me momentum. I say "tumultuous," but everything was mostly happening in my mind, occasionally bubbling to the surface when I confided to close friends. One of the more important things I realized was that I need to just. Do. The. Thing. After graduating, my life followed a bunch of idiomatic expressions: keep the nose to the grindstone, stick to the routine (i.e., awful four-hour commute), just hustle and put money in the bank. The whole time I was just making excuses to the point where when I look back on these last two years, I feel like I have nothing to show for it. It wasn't until very recently that I realized I'd lost sight of what is at my core: telling stories, creating good things with good people.
I'm starting a new project on my own in the coming months (more about this to come soon!), so I decided to create a new place to store my thoughts and track the little things that I encounter on the way as I make progress and navigate through this new project.