Despite good intentions and enjoying creative writing, I've never been good at keeping a diary or blog. Partly laziness, though more not finding the hours in a day, or energy at the end of a long, busy and eventful day worth writing about, to sit at a screen or hold a pen to write something legible. There is proof of this, in the many little notepads of incomplete scrawl I still have. I wouldn't be able to tell you what the words say, perhaps I should have learnt shorthand as a teenager.
I also never thought I'd ever do anything in life worth telling other people about and I'm yet to decide on where I sit on the debate about whether blogs are self-indulgent. Though the former wins over the latter here.
Life in all its turbulence with the bad times has sent a lot of good experiences my way, a lot of great experiences in fact. Things I have shared with others and things I've done on my own which no one knows about, nor will they know about unless I find a way of sharing. I love socialising and talking to people though I'll never be someone who drops in "There was this one time in..." stories, unless it somehow comes up in conversation.
More and more recently I find myself realising we need to give ourselves credit for things we do and achieve every day, rather than putting them down as insignificant when they are a big deal. Life is too short to worry about negative opinions of peers. Plus, with the age of travel and the internet, sharing and appreciation doesn't have to be limited to immediate social circles, instead open to friends (and strangers) everywhere.
I don't think this will be a regular or frequently updated blog -I'm sure by starting it, I'll tempt fate and nothing fun will happen for a while! Rather than always being an "in the moment" blog, I envisage this as a place where when I have some time, I'll write about "this one time in...". I'd love you to stick around and read the posts, as and when they appear - if I know you in person, I won't judge you for not being an avid follower of my ramble. Sometimes I don't follow it either!
Posts might end up being short and slightly miscellaneous, others longer and much more reminiscent... who knows, some may even sound familiar, almost as if you were there, some might say. Let's see how it goes.
Welcome to my retrospect.
Post coming soon: What's in a name?
