Paper Riceball

It’s about time I wrote the first entry to this blog! You’ll notice that this site was created in August of 2012, right before my freshman year of college. Why didn’t I write anything until now? I wish I could tell you it was because I was so busy with college that I did not have any time left for writing, but then I would be telling a lie, at least partially. If I were really determined to write this blog, then I would have done it regardless of how much work there was- I would have made time for writing. By the way, that’s only one of the strange things I’d like to write about on this blog.

So what’s my reason for not writing until now? Maybe it was writer’s block, but I think it was because of my inability to decide what theme this blog would revolve around. And so the procrastination started. Having a theme is one of those things I so wish I could apply to everything in my life, but which ultimately fails due to my capricious personality type. I thought of creating an art blog, or a creative writing blog, or a culture blog, or a day-in-the-life-of-a-college-student blog, but committing to one would mean disregarding the others. Aren’t I being so wonderfully cliché? But seriously though, fear of committing and limiting myself to one topic scared me into not writing at all. And that was no fun. So now it’s time to disregard organization, theme, and planning for the sake of writing. Do now, think later, right? I’ve spent too much time thinking and not enough time doing in my life. Starting with typing these words, I’m going to change that, and by publishing these words on the Internet, I’m going to hold myself accountable.

On a completely different note, isn’t it funny that this first post is on April 1st? This is a coincidence by the way- it just so happens to be the end of this year’s Spring Break, and feeling that I hadn’t accomplished anything over Spring Break, I decided it’s about time to start writing for fun again. If nothing else comes of this blog, if less than ten people in the world ever read it, if it suddenly disappears off the face of the Internet because WordPress goes bankrupt, if humankind suddenly loses the ability to generate enough electricity to maintain the Internet, then at least I’ll know I created something. Deep, no?