This Friday, May 24th, will mark a year since I first set up this site, and over six months since the last time I uploaded anything here.

When I first launched this page, aside from detailing my summer travels, I had intended for it to be an online portfolio as I applied for jobs after coming back to the country. I was looking for marketing positions, and I had nowhere to display the creative work that I had already done. It did its job—after a few months of searching, I got some interviews and accepted a position in SF, moving back to the Bay Area after a temporary hiatus of Minnesotan winter.

So if everything went according to plan, what brought me back here?

Outside of work, I haven’t really been pursuing anything in my spare time. The past four months—and honestly, since graduation over a year ago—I have felt that I am no longer moving directly forwards but rather drifting from side to side, an air bubble slowly swimming up a bottle of molasses with the lid closed. It’s been harder to motivate and push myself to be productive in my hobbies and aspirations, as there is now no more structured guidance to take over when just passion isn’t enough.

Thus, I want to use this site to become more disciplined, not only as a writer, but in other facets of my life, which is a significant reason why I am using this website. Even though I have no plans of promoting this project, just having it up on an open platform creates a sense of accountability for me. There has been an invisible wall between my expectations and my experiences so far, and I wish to breach it.

The current plan is to write entries here regularly. It doesn’t have to be extensive, or detailed, and certainly not well-written, it just needs to exist.

See you on the other side.