chronicling

june first. June First. JUNE. FIRST. whoa.

it feels like just the other day i was putting my suit on for the entrance ceremony. and just before that i was in canada. and before that, i was making my resolutions for 2008.

for the last month, i've posted at least once a day (except for may 2nd and 30th) which was fun and a bit challenging, but also made me addicted to my blog. every day i was on the lookout for "material" and thinking about things to write about. when i first started this blog, i didn't "network" or comment on other peoples' blogs. but things evolve and now i have an mini audience and writing to get my thoughts out of my head* is now also partially writing to entertain. and lately it's become a record book of sorts. life is always an adventure and recently i feel like i am always off doing something, seeing something or thinking something and it's all worth writing down.

i started blogging back in college, when xanga was the IT thing. the other day i logged in to my old xanga. it was interesting to see what i was thinking 5 years ago today. to see the angsty poetry or cryptic messages of a struggling girl who has come so far since then. five years later and i'm again realizing the importance of journaling. or writing down something, anything, a word, a poem, a picture, a snapshot of life on that day, in that moment.



*people will made the argument that "if you're just writing for you, why put it on the internet?" and i don't really have a concrete rationale. but i think that in this huge world, people just want to feel connected to others. they want to be known not for what they look like, not for what they do for a living, not for where they live, but for the thoughts and emotions that make us all so human. and that's why blogging is so popular in a day when we may talk less to our families but will pour our hearts out to strangers over the internet.