The past 6 months have been crazy. But they’ve also been…likeable (for lack of a better term.) The minute I was hired full time this blog went down the tubes. But I think that 6 months later, I’m finally ready to revive it. You have to understand that I didn’t give up on blogging…I was just thrown into the whirlwind of having a real life so quickly that I didn’t know how to manage my time (I’ll admit that in the spirit of transparency.) In fact, about 5 weeks ago I wrote a blog that I totally intended on posting, but legitimately just did not have the time too.
So what have I been up to that has made me this non-blogging crazy-person might you ask? Oh well ya know, just planning a conference (that just so happened to be crazy successful), promoting a NYT Best-Selling book (fingers crossed), and making the world generally more likeable. You know…things that most normal 23 year old does right? Oh wait…
I’m lucky. And I know it. Tons have things have gone right for me in the past 8 or 9 months when one thing right before went horribly wrong. And I owe my life to social media. #seriously
I ‘ve continually been asking myself over the past month or so “how did I get here?” I think I’ve always had the sense of wanting to connect with the virtual world as part of my bones. So here’s my revalation…
Wayyyyyyyyy back in January of 2004, there was blizzard. I was bored. I created a LiveJournal. I had no idea what I was doing besides posting my love for John Mayer, pretending I was the greatest thing since sliced bread (I sort of am…), and recapping each day of high school drama (really intriguing stuff, I swear.) But then I started joining communities. Mostly John Mayer related but others such as ones for the San Diego Padres, Will and Grace lovers, bands like Snow Partol, and Jimmy Fallon fans. It was in that Jimmy Fallon community that I met my first online friend, Cristi. Cristi was from Florida and we were convinced that we were the same person just on different ends of the country. Over the years Cristi and I have kept in touch but we’ve never met but to this day I still feel as though we have this crazy connection…all because of the Internet After Cristi there were tons more. I met two of my best friends on MySpace the summer before St. John’s in a St. John’s Group. And between then and now, I’ve been transformed in a social media fiend. The Cristi’s of my life are in the double if not triple digits thanks to Twitter and all these connections I have…I could not be more grateful for.
So over the past month when at times I’ve been so confused as to how I am where I am now, doing what I’m doing…it really shouldn’t be that confusing at all. I should have seen this coming all along. Maybe if my mom had let me get an AIM screen-name before I was a sophomore in high school I’d own a company by now. KIDDING. But really though social media has transformed my life, in so many good ways.
And with that, my revelation mixed in with a little “after 6 months I finally know what I’m doing” has led to my blog revival.
And since I owe my life to it…
social media #FTW
