I’ve missed just blogging at the end of my day, or even throughout the day to get my thoughts out to connect to others. I don’t know why I stopped, but I know why I haven’t done it on Substack.
Since Substack sends out newsletters when I post, I felt like everything I posted needed to be important enough to send out an email. The thing is, I can choose not to send an email. So that is what I am doing with this post.
Things have been hard for me lately. I’ve been under a lot of pressure, and I’ve started feeling like the people who know me best don’t actually know me at all.
Like too many people, I curate the parts of me I share and hide bits that I want to keep private. The result is, there are only five people who really know me, and I only get to talk to two of them on a regular basis.
This is completely my fault. I don’t like how people treat me when they know how bad I feel all the time, and most of my friends don’t share my interests.
So here I am on the internet telling complete strangers some, but still not all of it.
I have so many thoughts trapped in my head, and this is why I have decided to start blogging again, like I used to back in the day.
For the first time in a long time, I feel like it is ok for me to be me online again. I am curious to see how this experiment will go.
I can’t wait to chat with you all in the comments. Later.
Thanks Charlie for inspiring me to try a new platform.