On How to Begin

I need to start with this because I think very often about doing this thing, starting a blog, but I don't follow through because of this fear I have of coming across as a narcissist for thinking anyone cares what I think, or enough to read anything I have to say, anyway. And it's okay if you don't read past this point! This is for me, ultimately. This is maybe the fourth blog that I've started. Each one containing different chapters of my life, mostly peppered with struggles of a young and angsty person. I am no longer young, but still angsty as far as I can tell. It feels weird to blog anymore because I associate it with my youth, but I am learning that I need to write. It's a major part of who I am, so I am returning to the blogoshere again because I like having these monumental periods of my life documented and I like to share information. Also, I have hopes of writing a book someday, so this documentation will assist me when my memory fails.

I've considered many avenues in which to take a new blog and I think about what kind of knowledge I can offer people. I am a hopeless nomad (emphasis on the hopelessness in it), so it only makes sense to create a travel blog. However, there are so many before me that are much better at doing that than I would ever be able to do. I am a traveler in a sense, but more of a person involved in psychoanalysis than anything else. I travel to meet people and learn from them in whichever capacity I can. Thus, this will likely just be a space of deep reflection and observation. I don't want there to be any natural flow between posts because that's not how I live my life and it would be stressful to maintain. Instead, I will post about my findings as they come and I anticipate that they will be as messy as I am. Most of the time, they will be reflections of my personal experiences. If that doesn't interest you, that's cool. But if it does, stay posted. The international hustle. That's what I know and care to share. And I have a lot to say.