I think I knew about blogging as early as I knew about the internet! When my family finally got a stable internet connection (like in the early 2000s), I found it sort of overwhelming! I got to access amazing things via this little (OK, you know, computers before ain’t small; hello, big-ass monitor!) machine—it was amazing! I went hoping for things (I, however, never find things like friendster or multiply appealing), but I know I want something to fangirl about! Yes, I ended up signing up for anime communities (and through it, I learned HTML! After learning some, I braved myself and made my own site/s! Phew! It was unstylish and very awkward, but that was so me before! Then I chanced upon livejournal! And that’s where my blogging officially started!

If reading is my escape, blogging is my fangirl solace! This is where I get to share what I love, talk about what I think about, and allow myself to freely express myself!

Now that I’ve given you another short rundown of my internet history, I think my objective before remains the same as when I formally moved to public blogging, or here in this blog! I want to fangirl. I want a place to express my thoughts on things I love. Before it was books, now it’s everything under the sun, I guess? And that’s good! I’m not very vocal in RL, and I actually don’t have friends who are into things I like! Come to think of it, ever since I was a kid, I’d never found a friend that was SO INTO what I was REALLY into, or at least not that passionate like I was! Yes, what a sad fangirl life I have. But I’m so thankful to the internet because I got to meet people that like what I like and do what I do (like create websites or blog), so I guess the internet will always be an avenue where I can be my unabashed fangirl self! It welcomes my thoughts with open arms!

If reading is my escape, blogging is my fangirl solace! This is where I get to share what I love, talk about what I think about, and allow myself to freely express myself! It doesn’t matter if someone reads it or not; my real goal is to get these things out of my chest! To yell to the world how much I love the things I read or watch!!!

My sister told me that blogging is an occupation of middle-class kids. I disagree, because regardless of my financial status and number of followers, I still consider myself a blogger. Perhaps the idea of blogging right now has evolved, but to me, blogging is still the same as when I started in the early 2000s. I have a blog; there’s something I want to share, and that’s it. That simple! I think I’m still going to continue thinking about what blogging really is to me, rather than how it evolved for some people. Blogging is still a type of online journal. A virtual space where the running thoughts in my head have a place to be free! And that’s the true beauty of it! This is my fangirl solace—and that’s for me the most important thing!