Welcome to The Rose Garden!
This is the first post of my very fist blog, and I’m so excited! This is something I’ve been thinking about doing for years, but I never really felt like I could. Even now, I’m wondering why anyone would ever care enough to read about my life and my thoughts. But I know that I read blogs just like this one all of the time and enjoy them, so there must be something there. Anyway, I have decided that whether anyone wants to read about my life or not, I’m going to go ahead and write about it.
I am hoping that this blog can be a space for me to explore my creativity and share it with anyone who is interested. I am fully aware that there are lots of girls my age with blogs that are pretty similar to what I want this blog to be. However, I didn’t create this blog with the intention of being totally original and special, and I definitely don’t plan on making a ton ofmoney or getting a lot of attention. I created this blog for a number of personal reasons, which I’m going to explain in this post.
I am not totally decided on what I want to do after college yet, but there is a pretty good chance that what I will do will involving writing. I love to write, and it’s always something that has come easy to me in school, but I have had very little experience writing outside of school. I really feel that I need to take time to invest in my writing skills and give myself the chance to explore writing creatively. Of course, if I just wanted to write more, I could always just write for myself, but there is so much more accountability in writing for a blog. I know that I will always want to put out the best quality writing that I’m capable of since I’m sharing it so openly.
On a more personal level, I am hoping that writing for this blog will help me build confidence. I can be a pretty introverted person, and I’m not always very comfortable sharing my thoughts and feelings with people in my life, let alone the internet. However, I’m an intelligent, interesting person, and I occasionally have intelligent, interesting thoughts that I should feel comfortable sharing with people. Hopefully, overtime this blog will help me gain a bit more confidence in myself.
Besides all of the super serious reasons, I also just want a space where I can talk about whatever I want and gush about all of my favorite things. I fully expect to write a blog post or two about Gilmore Girls and a few about Harry Potter, and since it’s my blog I don’t have to apologize to anyone for the extent of my obsessions. I have no idea where this blog will go overtime, and I want to feel comfortable exploring any topic or creative expression that I feel like.
Although all of these reasons and goals behind doing this are very personal, I really do hope that anyone who happens to stumble upon this blog enjoys it!
