I feel so inspired to write right now, to come up with a brand-new layout, and it's all because of the Candy October issue.
As a kid, I knew I could write. But I never thought I could write as good as I could write now. I thought that I should follow all the cliches and the stereotypes of writing. You know, that you should talk from a philsophical point of view(Now I know you should only do that during formal essays. Hahaha. Now, I couldn't even remember how to do that.) , and everything should be in place, that you can't write the way you write in your journal. Thanks to Miss Jadrin, I touched that writer in me, and I had the new-found ability to write. I was confident, and I learned that I wrote better in English than in vernacular Filipino. When I was 11, I wasn't that confident in writing. Sure, I knew how to write already, but I never took pride in my works. I still felt small. I had a feel of the people around me--I tried to know the competition. I was competing with myself. I also started blogging when I was 11. No, maybe 10. That time, still thriving in Xanga, I used to write ThiS wAy, and spelled dS wEi. That was what the cool kids did. (Ewww, that's one of the ickiest things I've done. :-P.) When I started in Blogger, I pretty much still had the dS wEi typing. Until months progressed, I've visited more blogs, and discovered that it was very icky to write that way. I just laugh about myself when I visit that vair old blog.
I continued writing in my blog, as if it were the center of my world. As if it was only me who could see it. As if I was the only person who knew about it. My blog has helped me in a way that no human person could. It sounds freaky, but it's very true. It has helped me grow a lot. And surely, in some way, it made me appreciate my works more, because other people appreciated them din. Blogging has made me feel comfortable with myself in a way no one knows of. I believed in myself. Blogging has also taught me how to self-discover. To learn things on my own, to work hard.
When you think about it, blogging is nothing. Compared to many other websites who made an impact in other people's lives, to websites who has helped in billions of homeworks, to websites who have made couples, friends, to websites who offered bidding and shopping, my blog is nothing. But I guess I shouldn't think of making an impact on others' lives, because if there's one thing I could be sure of, it's that blogging has most certainly made an impact on my life.
So blog, I highly recommend it. If you're a guy, don't be shy. I know girls who find it most impressive when a guy blogs--and that includes me. :-)
P.S. you might be wondering why that little pink heart is there, well you'd be seeing it more often. It stands for: what i'm loving right now.
