The Birth of a Blog (and its subsequent evolution into what it is today)

Sleigh Bells

When I decided to start blogging again, my intention was to simply create an outlet into which I could pour my thoughts and feelings about everything. I tried this in the past, semi-successfully creating a blog which contained around two posts per month, each one written with the finesse and passion one would expect from an undergraduate research paper. The problem was that I started said blog during a time in which blogging was not only fashionable, but necessary, at least according to the perception of the trend-setters of the day who were busy riding the wave of social networking, youtube, and DIY everything.

And so I couldn't remain committed to a project that I didn't fully believe in. As interested as I was in being on top of what was new and hip at the time, ultimately I can only commit myself to endeavors that I have a passion in. Examples: my wife, my education, writing (only if I like what I'm writing about), etc. You get the idea. Yet even though I considered writing to be one of my primary talents and passions, my familiarity with the world of blogging was based on what I saw in the blogs of family members. A lot of people in my family had blogs, so I mainly considered a blog to be a kind of web journal, sometimes personal, sometimes familial. So when I began my blog I felt constrained to write about deep thoughts, and books, boring daily dealings, all because I thought it needed to be a varied selection of snippets from my life.

I'll even admit that when I started this blog I enthusiastically thought to myself it could be my thoughts on amazing entertainment (i.e. books, music, video games, movies). But even that made me feel a bit constrained and often I wanted to write about some amazing album but I decided against it because I had way too many posts on music and not enough on movies. And so no one got anything. Lately, however, I've decided to simply write to my heart's content and completely ignore any sort of restrictions in terms of content. I'm throwing any resemblance of a framework out the window in favor of a more free-flowing, passionate blog. As has been the trend of late, I expect that most of my posts will be about music. Because honestly, there isn't really anything in this life I want to drone on about.

Take, for instance, the photo I added at the start of this post. Awesome photo, right? That's literally the only reason I added it. It's an amazing band that gots an amazing photo, and I wanted you to see it and read on, only to be disappointed upon realizing that the post has nothing to do with the picture. (Muahaha)