Years ago, I started a blog. I had no expectations. I didn’t even really know what a blog was. I just used it as an outlet, a way to express some ideas and get my head on straight. I had been going through a rough patch and sort of lost myself for a while.
The blog turned out to be a wonderful way for me to find myself again. Suddenly, I had a voice again. I had thoughts and dreams and plans and opinions that found their way out on the blog.
And I found some friends along the way, people who turned up every day to read what I had written and whose words I would go and read on their little slice of the Internet.
And then I stopped. I ended up doing many other things that got in the way of blogging: I thru hiked both the AT and the PCT. I started traveling and worked in North Carolina, Virginia, Arizona. I thru hiked the Arizona Trail. And then I moved back home.
In the midst of all that, my parents started having some health problems. I moved home to help them out a bit more. But somehow, as I spent more and more time helping out my parents, I lost myself again. I feel like for quite some time, I have only existed to help everyone else out.
But as we approach the New Year- the new decade! - I’m determined to find myself again. Back at the blog to write down thoughts, goals, dreams, opinions, plans, and new adventures.
It’s time once again to be JEEP GIRL!
Oh, honey, I'm so happy to read this!! You have no idea. I hope you write often... I'll be here if you do!! (And probably even if you don't, just wishful thinking! :) )
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