The years have come and gone. I laid my old blog to rest after senior year of high school, and suddenly here I am as a senior in college, starting up a new blog. If I'm remembering correctly, I stopped blogging because I realized that I had been neglecting my personal writing. For some reason I wasn't able to do both. It's important to me to have a diary, or a journal, or whatever you want to call the the place where you write for yourself and no one else. I loved my old blog, but for some reason it made me lose sight of my other forms of journaling. Now, it's almost four years later and I think I'm ready to try again. I have been–or more accurately I have tried to be–dedicated to my personal writing, and I think I'm ready to keep an additional blog.
So, What is it for?
I'm happily undecided. However, for this blog I would like to have an overarching theme attached to it. I think that would help to make it more focused and interesting. And so far this what I've come up with.
Burning the Midnight Oil is a place for me to keep track of the little things that matter. I'm someone who loves the little pleasures in life, but sadly I'm also someone who easily forgets about them after they happen. For example, lately I've been experiencing a passion for sewing. I've been making skirts and altering shirts, I'm in the process of making a bonnet for my mom, and every night before bed my mind is brimming with new project ideas. I usually hate sleepless nights, but I actually love losing sleep because of an over-impassioned mind. It means I've found something that I get truly excited about. When I can get excited by just thinking about a project, I know I've discovered an activity that really resonates with me.
But lets say that a month from now, I suddenly forget about sewing and spend all my time watching every Monty Python movie I can get my hands on. If that happens, I will most definitely forget about that fleeting and wonderful feeling of all-encompassing passion. That's what this blog is for. To have a place to put the passion. I'm happiest when I'm making something. Sometimes it's sewing, sometimes it's taking pictures, sometimes it's baking, sometimes it's beading, sometimes it's drawing, but whatever it is, it makes me happy. And I mean truly happy. That's why it's so difficult during the year to be in school all the time–I just don't have any time to be creative. I get these ideas in my head, things that I'm just itching to do...but I just have to sigh and put those desires away. I think to myself, "I have to study for a test on Monday. There's no way I can just stop what I'm doing so that I can sew a skirt or teach myself how to make sushi."
Thankfully, it is now summer. I have been waiting for summer all year. It is only in the summer months that I can nurture my silly ideas, my itching desires, and my beloved projects. And this blog will help me to encourage those passions... whatever they may be, and no matter how silly they may seem. When I have the time to play and be silly, I am happy. And when I am happy I feel inspired.
But lets say that a month from now, I suddenly forget about sewing and spend all my time watching every Monty Python movie I can get my hands on. If that happens, I will most definitely forget about that fleeting and wonderful feeling of all-encompassing passion. That's what this blog is for. To have a place to put the passion. I'm happiest when I'm making something. Sometimes it's sewing, sometimes it's taking pictures, sometimes it's baking, sometimes it's beading, sometimes it's drawing, but whatever it is, it makes me happy. And I mean truly happy. That's why it's so difficult during the year to be in school all the time–I just don't have any time to be creative. I get these ideas in my head, things that I'm just itching to do...but I just have to sigh and put those desires away. I think to myself, "I have to study for a test on Monday. There's no way I can just stop what I'm doing so that I can sew a skirt or teach myself how to make sushi."
Thankfully, it is now summer. I have been waiting for summer all year. It is only in the summer months that I can nurture my silly ideas, my itching desires, and my beloved projects. And this blog will help me to encourage those passions... whatever they may be, and no matter how silly they may seem. When I have the time to play and be silly, I am happy. And when I am happy I feel inspired.
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