It's 2025, I am 37 (holy shit), and the world is very different than when I first introduced my blog.
In fact, blogs aren't as popular as they once were. Now humans constantly scroll their phones to max consumption. Written word has turned to series of unending videos on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook because it still exist.
Recipes, Get ready with me, cook with me, day in my life, watch me unbox, eat with me, me me me me watch me consume, look at me me me me. Get more views. Get more followers, get more money. I won't lie, I tried to become a content creator. Making a few videos, but no one seems to think I am funny as I do.
Although blogs are not extinct, they are not as popular due to a few things. Mainly, that society's attention span as whole is fucked. 2ndly, people do not like to read. Anything you can think of is has a video attached, at least for most normal and legal things. Hell, I learned how to blanket stitch from a TikTok video.
I digress. History seems to repeat itself, so I have a sneaking suspicion that blogs will make a comeback after social media dies. Things like celebrities and mass influencers with lots of money are not relevant, and people are catching on. People just want to relate to other normal people who live in the same class---- which is mostly middle----andwho have the same amount of dollars. Which currently, in this nightmare economy, things are extremely expensive. And with an idiot president, I have never felt so embarrassed to be from the US. It's truly maddening, but I am not going into that here, at least not now. I never thought I would be so opinionated on politics, but here I am, and I am proud.
I went back and forth on whether to keep my old posts. I was such a different person as a young adult. So elite with my opinions of religion. So bamboozled by a culture. I have decided that is a past life that I do want to remember, because without those experiences, I wouldn't be me today.
As for my current life- well- it's not the blueprint I had dreamed up, but I am here, I am looking at life through a different lens.
Cheers friends
