1st blog anniversary
A year sounds like a really long time, you would think that in a year a lot of things change, but sometimes some things stay the same and one year feels like nothing. I don't know where all these days went, I truly feel like time froze and I woke up just today. Probably because I had expectations that in a year my life would be very different, that I've been doing those things from my list, that everything would go according to my plan and I will achieve everything, I was too ahead of myself thinking about it now. A year sometimes it's not enough time, a year can be short. But even thought many things didn't happened in this year, something unexpected happened: I made a blog and actually wrote in it.
I've never expected being this constant in writing, I started this blog out of curiosity, I knew I liked to write but before this blog it was rare for me to write often, only a few short texts or poems. This past year has been full of writing for me and I loved it! it's one of my favorite hobbies to do now. I'm a person that thinks a lot and letting go all of it in words had helped me a lot to let my mind rest. In a technical point of view, it also helped me to improve my English and Spanish writing skills, so that's nice too.
Writing blog posts made me more introspective in a way. Before, if a thought crossed my mind it would go away and be lost forever, now, when something interesting comes up I'll write about it and develop those thoughts into something more. I get to conclusions and ideas I would never get otherwise. When I write for the blog I feel a sense of gratification, because it's like I'm building, little by little, a safe place for my curated thoughts. I try to be intentional and write things that for me are meaningful, and is nice to know that I have a place to share it.
To end this post I thought it would be fun to add some curiosities/fun facts about this blog:
- I created it a Thursday, August 15th. That day I published my first post and 2 more (I guess I was excited).
- There are 217 post published, it will be 218 with this one (If I counted well?) Wow, that's a lot of writing.
- I mostly write in the mornings and a post take me around 1 hour to write. A short one, because I'll take some days for longer ones.
- I want to change the theme again. I like this one, but I was thinking on having a look like a magazine with a grunge style? I already did the CSS, but I'll keep the Nostalgia theme for more time and change when I feel is right. That would be the third change in my blog theme.
- There is a secret page I made, It's nothing special (do not expect something fancy), I just made it for fun. I don't know if anyone has found it, I don't think so because I didn't link it anywhere, so people would need to try random link names, it's an easy name though. This idea it's not mine by the way, I saw it in another blog but I don't remember the name.
- I usually don't have a lot of posts drafts, I finish them or deleted them, if is in my drafts it's because I'm working on it, I try to keep it that way. Right now I have three including this one.
I'll stop here, I've talked more about this blog on the bearblog question challenge, I can't think of more things to say for this anniversary. Thank you so much to everyone following and reading this blog, I'm glad people enjoy it as much as I do enjoy writing in it.