As you may have found by now, I really do not have any about me or biography section on my blog. While I do agree that it is important to display yourself using unique qualities, traits, and characteristics, I feel like most people just do not accurately portray themselves.
On a blog, the idea is to construct an image of yourself, so I feel like so many people spend hours trying to come up with these witty, catchy traits to use as a biography. In turn, I moreover feel like only the surface is scratched, thus forth an accurate representation of the person is not presented. Instead of talking about life fears, hard times and weaknesses, people choose to put down hobbies and what they do best. Yes, I have many hobbies, and yes, I can do a few things well, but as a writer, I want my readers to uncover, connect, and comprehend who I am as a human being.
This is my first installation in a series of posts I will be titling Unconventional Introductions. In other words, I will be sharing a lot about myself incrementally, but I will be striving to never share anything “typical” that a person could acquire at first glance.
Rather than tell you my favorite color and my hopes and dreams for the future, I want people to see past that into deeper, even darker crevices. I want to tell you about the things that make me human, and the things I do not understand about myself.
So allow me to waste no more time (thoroughly confused as to how that is relevant, seeing as words occupy no spatial time…but I’m not deleting it so, YOLO.)
I’m kind of an ironic walking paradox. Seriously. I like going to bed early, but my creativity thrives and I think best at night. I swear I’m so ADHD sometimes that I cannot get anything done while focusing and sitting still, yet, I have my most “eureka” of moments on a long jog or while babysitting a bakers dozen children. I recently went through this phase where I wanted to get really lean and shredded, brah, but I was frustrated and unhappy when I started gaining weight by only lifting heavy and doing minimal cardio. I like to think of myself as super organized, but I lock my keys in the car, or like, forget to bring a pen to class.
As frustrating and confusing as I can be sometimes, I think that these are the aspects of my being that make me human. I think that in life, it is inevitable that we are going to constantly confuse ourselves and act in ways that often have no definition. It is precisely these conundrums that test our strength, problem solving, intellect, and overall being. If life were always such a breeze, well, there would probably be no use for fans, and the guy who invented them would be really sad. In all seriousness though, instead of allowing our complications to conquer us, we must learn to work with them through the uphill battle of life.
So, embrace your inner paradox! Keep doing the unconventional things that make you who you are. Put your socks on first, stay up late, wake up tired, be creative, try to carry in all of the groceries from your car at once. Be who you are, and embrace the traits that you do not understand.
Because seriously, what would life be if it were just a steady tropical breeze?
On a blog, the idea is to construct an image of yourself, so I feel like so many people spend hours trying to come up with these witty, catchy traits to use as a biography. In turn, I moreover feel like only the surface is scratched, thus forth an accurate representation of the person is not presented. Instead of talking about life fears, hard times and weaknesses, people choose to put down hobbies and what they do best. Yes, I have many hobbies, and yes, I can do a few things well, but as a writer, I want my readers to uncover, connect, and comprehend who I am as a human being.
This is my first installation in a series of posts I will be titling Unconventional Introductions. In other words, I will be sharing a lot about myself incrementally, but I will be striving to never share anything “typical” that a person could acquire at first glance.
Rather than tell you my favorite color and my hopes and dreams for the future, I want people to see past that into deeper, even darker crevices. I want to tell you about the things that make me human, and the things I do not understand about myself.
So allow me to waste no more time (thoroughly confused as to how that is relevant, seeing as words occupy no spatial time…but I’m not deleting it so, YOLO.)
I’m kind of an ironic walking paradox. Seriously. I like going to bed early, but my creativity thrives and I think best at night. I swear I’m so ADHD sometimes that I cannot get anything done while focusing and sitting still, yet, I have my most “eureka” of moments on a long jog or while babysitting a bakers dozen children. I recently went through this phase where I wanted to get really lean and shredded, brah, but I was frustrated and unhappy when I started gaining weight by only lifting heavy and doing minimal cardio. I like to think of myself as super organized, but I lock my keys in the car, or like, forget to bring a pen to class.
As frustrating and confusing as I can be sometimes, I think that these are the aspects of my being that make me human. I think that in life, it is inevitable that we are going to constantly confuse ourselves and act in ways that often have no definition. It is precisely these conundrums that test our strength, problem solving, intellect, and overall being. If life were always such a breeze, well, there would probably be no use for fans, and the guy who invented them would be really sad. In all seriousness though, instead of allowing our complications to conquer us, we must learn to work with them through the uphill battle of life.
So, embrace your inner paradox! Keep doing the unconventional things that make you who you are. Put your socks on first, stay up late, wake up tired, be creative, try to carry in all of the groceries from your car at once. Be who you are, and embrace the traits that you do not understand.
Because seriously, what would life be if it were just a steady tropical breeze?