My boyfriend made fun of me a lot when I told him that I was going to do this. In a friendly, good natured way of course; can't have my readers thinking I'm in a toxic relationship from the first line. Honestly, I completely agree with his criticism. I don't know what I'm going to write about. It took me fifteen minutes to pick a theme and fonts for my blog. Maybe (definitely) because it distracted me from the actual task of filling my blog with content. I guess I should give a little background info about myself first.
My name is Alexis, you can call me Lex though. I go to college in Brooklyn, NY (hence the blog name) and I'm a junior. I'm an English major and communications minor so basically I'm studying to be jobless in two years. I'm only kind of kidding. I want to be a writer and I've been told the best way to do that is to just write, all the time every day. I journal of course, but I need more to keep myself accountable. I wrote for an online feminist magazine for a little bit (was published twice and I'll post the links if that's something you want). But ultimately I stopped writing for them because I lost motivation. I went though a particularly rough patch in my life. I lost myself and I succumbed to my temptations to waste my time. I won't go into detail about that here (if only to preserve my pride), but it wasn't pretty. Less than a year later, I'm in the best relationship I've ever had, I have the best friends than I've ever had and I can finally say I'm having mostly good days. I struggle with anxiety and depression so of course it will never be perfect. But for now, the good days outweigh the bad ones.
So on to what really made me want to start this blog; besides needing something to fill my quarantine days. I'm currently reading this book called "Everything is Figureoutable" by Marie Forleo. I love it and I want to tattoo every word on across my body. That might be a stretch. But honestly, I loved it so much that I took her advice and started this blog. I won't disclose all her advice here (read the book!) but basically she said to take action today. In other words, do something that takes you one step towards your dream right now. Stop waiting. So I did; I created this blog and here I am. Another piece of her advice is to start before you're ready. I definitely did that here because I have no idea how to write a blog. But here's to new adventures I guess! Thanks for joining me on this journey. I hope you won't be disappointed :')
My name is Alexis, you can call me Lex though. I go to college in Brooklyn, NY (hence the blog name) and I'm a junior. I'm an English major and communications minor so basically I'm studying to be jobless in two years. I'm only kind of kidding. I want to be a writer and I've been told the best way to do that is to just write, all the time every day. I journal of course, but I need more to keep myself accountable. I wrote for an online feminist magazine for a little bit (was published twice and I'll post the links if that's something you want). But ultimately I stopped writing for them because I lost motivation. I went though a particularly rough patch in my life. I lost myself and I succumbed to my temptations to waste my time. I won't go into detail about that here (if only to preserve my pride), but it wasn't pretty. Less than a year later, I'm in the best relationship I've ever had, I have the best friends than I've ever had and I can finally say I'm having mostly good days. I struggle with anxiety and depression so of course it will never be perfect. But for now, the good days outweigh the bad ones.
So on to what really made me want to start this blog; besides needing something to fill my quarantine days. I'm currently reading this book called "Everything is Figureoutable" by Marie Forleo. I love it and I want to tattoo every word on across my body. That might be a stretch. But honestly, I loved it so much that I took her advice and started this blog. I won't disclose all her advice here (read the book!) but basically she said to take action today. In other words, do something that takes you one step towards your dream right now. Stop waiting. So I did; I created this blog and here I am. Another piece of her advice is to start before you're ready. I definitely did that here because I have no idea how to write a blog. But here's to new adventures I guess! Thanks for joining me on this journey. I hope you won't be disappointed :')
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