I realize that I’m just not very good at blogging consistently. I love writing, and I need an outlet for it. Blogging has always seemed to work best, but blogging has changed so much since it became popular. It used to be more of just an online journal that your friends read, and maybe a few random people that happened to find you. Now it’s all about SEO and content and making money off of ads and getting followers or whatnot. I kind of wish we could just return to the way blogging used to be, before there was so much pressure and back when it used to just be a place to get all of your thoughts out. It won’t go back to that, I’m sure, but at any rate, I still need a creative outlet. So here I am, trying to catch up.

In my return to blogging over the last few days (or actually weeks, since that’s when I was working on the site redesign), I came across a draft of a blog post that I had started, apparently in September of 2016. I remember working on this post and never posting it, and I can’t believe it has been that long since I started it. While my thoughts have changed a bit, I still decided it was worth it to revisit and post my current thoughts on the subject matter. So, here is the draft of the post I had from back in 2016:

Happy 2019! Alright, here we go… in an effort to blog more this year, let’s start with this. SO many people make New Year’s resolutions to be healthier in the coming year. There’s always talk of how active gyms are at the beginning of the year, then it gradually starts to die down when everyone breaks their resolutions and goes back to their old habits. So, I actually didn’t really set any official New Year’s resolutions this year. I have a few goals, but they are more or less things that have been goals for a while. I do have a lot of hope for what’s to come this year, including in obtaining those goals. But I don’t think I’d consider them resolutions, especially with the connotations that come with that. Resolutions always seem to inevitably get broken!