Social Media Runs My Life

It really does. The first thing I do in the morning is check Facebook, then snapchat, then twitter, then email and texts. And actually, now that I think about it, it's the last thing I do before bed too. If I'm not too tired I'll even add YouTube to the list.

The part that scares me is that there are so many people out there who are much worse than me. I mean, I spend a lot of time on my phone throughout the day, but there are people who don't know how to communicate face to face because they only ever do it with instant messaging of some sort. It's pathetic, really. I'm not perfect by any means, but I'll be the first to tell you that I spend waaayyyy too much time online. And for the amount of time I spend online you'd think I'd be a lot better about posting here... I blame Netflix..

With a Little Help From My Friends

I spent the last few days up island at Mt. Washington with a bunch of people (most of whom I already knew). The plan was to ski, but seeing as there was less than a foot of snow, that was not an option. We decided we'd go up and hang out anyway, and I ended up having a couple of the best days of my life. And while we were there, I realized just how important and helpful it is to have friends who really care about you.

As you know, I moved away from all my friends and family to go to Ontario for school. Last year was great. I was able to keep in touch with a bunch of my friends from Victoria and I made some good friends at school. This last term, however, has been a little harder, and I haven't been very good about staying in contact with people. When I was at Mt. Washington, I felt like every person there (even the ones I'd never met) genuinely cared about me. I reconnected with one of the only people I've ever been able to fully open up with, and boy did that feel good. Just to get all the emotions and thoughts I've been holding back out of my system, and to have someone listening who knows exactly how you feel, and exactly what you need to hear. Everybody should have a friend like that.

Another thing that happened to me is I got to talk to another blogger about the difficulties of talking when you don't think anybody is listening. That's probably the biggest challenge with a blog at first. Nobody can listen if you don't say anything, but you don't feel motivated to say anything if you feel like nobody is listening. Now, I'm not saying this just for me, but on behalf of all bloggers. If you read and enjoy a post, or a blog, tell the author. Give them some positive feedback, and you'll make their day, and possibly inspire them to keep going.

That is all for now, and I hope you have a marvelous day.

Let's try this again...

But this time not so ambitious. I think I'm just going to write whenever I have something to say, and maybe I'll expand on it a lot, or maybe it'll be a couple sentences about something random. I don't really know. I just think it'll be good for my writing to write lots, and this is a place where I can write about whatever I want to. If you know me, you'll know that my interests span a huge variety of subjects, and I'll likely talk about those most. And just as an experiment to see who still checks here for posts, I'm not going to tell anybody about this for a while... MUAHAHA