The Tale of Why I Started Blogging...

I remember it like it was yesterday...maybe that's because it was less than a year ago.  I really didn't have this big moment where I decided that I should start this motivational blog for people to read.  Honestly, I just thought it would be cool to be able to write whatever I wanted outside of school.  My friend Courtney and I decided that we were going to start blogs together and once I made mine, I was pretty hooked.  I decided that I was going to keep up on it and just write whatever I felt people needed to hear or whatever I felt I needed to write.

First, I had to pick a name.  I wanted something that was going to be interesting and get people to want to read.  So, obviously, I looked at the music on my phone to see if there were any cool song titles to make into blog names.  As I was looking, I found "Between the Lines" by Sara Bareilles.  I thought that it would be perfect!  You know, there are lines on a paper, and you write on paper, and between the lines can be a metaphor for different things, so I decided to use it!  I really hope it's okay that I did and I'm not copyrighting or anything because I swear I don't own that song or anything, I just thought it would be an awesome title for a blog...;)  Wow, that was probably the worst run-on sentence in history, but I thought it would be good to get that all out there.

I thought that it would be even cooler to have a blog since I started out as an English Education major, but it turns out that wasn't really for me.  So, I decided that even though I won't be teaching people how to read and write for the rest of my life, it doesn't mean that I can't continue to write my blog!  I realized that I really do enjoy reading and writing, just not enough to do it as a career for the rest of my existence.  One of the biggest reasons I wanted to be a writing teacher was because I think it is one of the greatest outlets we have.  People can use writing for so many things.  I think writing has helped me through some of the hardest times I've had and I'm probably not the only one who feels this way.  There's something about writing something down on a piece of paper or typing it out on the computer that makes it feel final and like it's not going to go anywhere.  A lot of people use writing for their goals because once they write it down they feel like they have a better chance of accomplishing it,

I am really happy that I have this blog for many reasons.  Some of those reasons being that I have something that's completely mine and that I can write whatever I want on.  Even if very few people read it, I do it mostly for me.  Being able to get all of my feelings and words out is definitely a relief.