Final Blog Day Challenge-Day 31 Why do I blog?

It took me awhile but I’m finally at the end of my blog challenge journey, and it’s bittersweet. Partially because I’m thinking “what in the hell will I blog about now?” and partially because I’m thinking “what will I GET to blog about now!!”

I started blogging as a way to open up, engage with others, and introduce myself to the world. I’m so thankful for those of you who stick with me and read. I know that I’m not especially funny or insightful, but you haven’t deleted me yet, which I take as a positive sign

I spent a few good years, closed off and shut down. So mostly I blog to re-open my own mind- to remind myself that it’s okay to share myself with people. When you close off and never share with anyone, it becomes a simpler life, but assuredly, a lonely one. The transition back into normal life doesn’t happen organically, after you’ve made such an effort to withdrawal. I thought that blogging would help and it has.

I’ve found through this experience, that I really blog for Me. I write to remember that I’m not perfect, and that I am tragically flawed, but that I can still be beautiful. I write to remind myself who I am inside my heart and my soul. I write so that I don’t lose myself to the darkness and to find the light when I need to. I write so that I can breathe. I’m unbelievably thankful that I get to write, blog, and share. I’m humbled by every like and comment. And I’m grateful for the opportunity to share. Every time I blog, I learn or rediscover something that I never knew, or that I’d forgotten. I look forward to the challenge of creating topics on my own to write about and I look forward to sharing them.

I don’t think I will ever be the closed down, isolated woman who I was. Everyone struggles in their own lives, their own way. Writing has helped to save me. It has given me the gift of self-discovery, has been my saving grace, and had reminded me who I am.