A Year Passed

August 24th, 2024

Well, it's been about a year since the last time I wrote something in this blog, and now here I am writing it on a new website and everything! I'm still putting everything together for the new site, but I'm starting to like how it looks, so I guess that's a step in the right direction.

When I was looking back at my old blog/phlog posts, I felt like the opinions that they gave were still mine, but the tone of them didn't feel like me at all! It's really hard to imagine that I've changed that much in the past year in terms of how I write, but maybe it's true?

In the last year I've been on Second Life a whole lot more often, almost daily, and that has really increased the amount of not only writing, but also social interaction that I have with people. I think that, when I was writing those entries last year, I had really only spoken with my partner and my parents, and maybe a few strangers here and there at the climbing gym or something, for nearly a year prior. Now, I'm not doing a whole lot of speaking in SL, but just writing to people and having to react to what they say has been good exercise.

Finding a voice for myself in an online space has really given me a better perspective not only on how I like to write so that I sound like myself, but even who I am as a person. It's easy to have certain ideals in your head that define you, and those are mostly what I was writing about last year - anti-consumerism, minimalism, valuing reading, old software, witchy things, etc - but having a voice for yourself is something different. Sharing my thoughts and feelings with other people who I care about on a regular basis has really had an impact on how I even sound to myself when I'm thinking.

Weird, huh?

So, I don't think that I've changed who I am in the past few years as far as my beliefs, my goals (if I even have any), or even my perspective on the world toooooooo much... But I have changed my perspective on myself. That's why, when I look back at my posts from last year, I feel like they don't sound like me anymore.

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