Week 12: What were you thinking the day you started blogging?

It was May 30^th, 2014 - a Friday. I was in my final year of high school and needed a hobby. And that’s exactly what this blog started as, something to fill in time between school and work commitments. I was working two jobs and finishing high school but I felt like there was something more that I wanted to do. I had blogged a few years’ prior, but I never stuck to it and sort of lost interest after a while – call it immaturity. I vividly remember coming home from school on that Friday afternoon and having about an hour spare before I had to get ready and head to work. I opened up my Internet browser and found myself on blogger.com.

The blog started as Unorthodox Simplicity – something I thought was anonymous enough and didn’t tie my down to any particular theme or genre. I started with a blog post about my Senior Formal that took place a few weeks prior. It was very basic and simple but it set up the style that I wanted for my blog. I had started Unorthodox Simplicity as a platform to write an online diary that I would never lose and could look back on years in the future. It was initially made just for me and whoever stumbled upon it and I made a point not to publicise it. I remember Google-ing how to change my Blogger theme and failing miserably to try and upload it onto the website. I think because it was made as a this is just for me and no one will ever find it kind of blog, I never had any fears or never thought about oh what will I actually do if someone finds this page. I went to work and came home around 11pm, I immediately checked my blog to start writing another post.

That’s how it all started. None of this was planned. I thought that it would just be another ‘thing’ I did for a month or so and got bored of. But nevertheless, here I am two and a bit years later still blogging. We’ve had three name changes and will probably have a lot more in the future. I know I say this quite a lot, but I’m so proud of where I’ve been able to take this blog and the awesome opportunities that I’ve had because of you guys, my lovely readers.

XO