Better Late Than Never

Ideally, this post would’ve been written on New Year’s Day. Two days late isn’t so bad, right? For those of you who know me well, it wouldn’t be fitting if my blog wasn’t late anyways, so I’m just staying true to my untimely habits. The point is that my blog is finally being launched after much hesitation and deliberation. I’m still not quite sure what my purpose in this blog is yet, but bear with me as I do my best to figure it out. To help you understand better, here’s the sequence of events that led to the creation of my blog:

For starters, I’ve been told throughout my entire college career as a public relations major how important it is to blog. (Don’t mind that it took me until halfway through my senior year of college to listen. Again, just staying true to my hard-headed self.) But, I always made excuses of why I shouldn’t blog, such as I had nothing to write about, I wasn’t a good enough writer, or no one would want to read what I wrote anyways. Though they may be true, I didn’t realize until recently that those things aren’t important, thanks to a great writer and friend for explaining to me that it doesn’t matter what others think as long as I enjoy blogging. But when it comes down to it, I have to give credit to my summer internship for giving me some ideas and confidence in terms of starting a blog. When I explained my concern of not having anything to write about, I was given the advice to choose a theme as specific as polka-dots or red shoes and just start a blog about it. Even though I couldn’t think of anything right off the bat, I kept this advice in mind. Little did I know, one of my favorite tasks as an intern would serve as great inspiration for my future blog. This task was planning staff celebrations for off-beat national holidays, such as national ice cream day and national lollipop day. No matter who designates them, there’s at least one for almost every single day of the year. Who knew? Though summer and my internship unfortunately came to a close, I had the idea to create a “National Days” Twitter account to announce what to celebrate each day because I’m a PR major and those kinds of things are strangely fun to me. Much to my dismay, I found that many other people had thought of this long before me. Here’s the link to a successful one if you’d like to check it out: twitter.com/NationalDays. Upon sharing this news with Kendal (best friend and roommate who experiences my life unfiltered), she connected the dots between a themed blog and my failed twitter idea, suggesting I create a National Days blog. With her encouragement, I took that idea and ran with it, which led me to this.

Through the process of creating this blog, I've realized I'll most likely want to write about more than just celebrating unique holidays. Lucky for me, I'm up for the challenge of finding a reason to celebrate each day that I post, which I can promise will not be every day. So to sum up what I've attempted to explain, I don't have a clue what all I'm going to write about as I continue this blog. Even if it's not a holiday, an accomplishment, or really anything significant at all, I think the sole fact that God chooses to wake us up in the morning is enough reason to celebrate the day. But today, I'm celebrating the fact that I FINALLY completed my blog. So here's to the end of my first post, and to YOU for making it all the way through!