Hello, Hello.

Hello, world of blogging! I think a good first impression is of the essence, but I am being spontaneous right now because that is the only way I get things done. I've been wanting to blog since, let's just say a long time ago, but a myriad of things have distracted me to doing so, either laziness or the fear of imperfection. So this is an act of spontaneity, forgive me if I'm still trying to figure out my style and voice.

I've thought of making a travel blog - in fact, that's the only kind of blog I ever thought of making before now - and though I am really fond of traveling, it just doesn't scream me. I have to force myself to do it, and that's rarely a good way to get things done. I barely read other travel blogs. I don't like interviewing locals or digging deeper into the history of the place or posting my travel itinerary minute by minute or uploading pictures or memorizing prices. I let other people do that. And by other people I mean all the passionate and talented travel writers out there.

Somehow, I crave for uniqueness, as we all do. I wanted to tell the world about the different ways I see it, how things in my eyes are different than anybody else's - that isn't possible with a travel blog, at least in my biased opinion. If I go somewhere and write about it, someone out there have written it before me, better than I could've written it. Talking about the same place, the same people, though have undergone different experiences. Well now that I write it out it actually sounds genuinely unique since you can't write the same thing with different experiences. Two different heads are writing them, after all.

See, that's the thing about writing things. You get to see what you didn't see beforehand, even though you thought it. Your mind is a jumble, or as John Green puts it in The Fault in Our Stars, 'My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.' Truth. Maybe there should be a continuation - 'until I map out the pieces and try to understand the incomprehensible.'

Another thing is that no two people can ever write the same thing, even though they talk about the same thing. Writing is about perspective and emotion, how you paint pictures and landscapes with words, igniting the imagination in people and connecting with their inmost feelings, unlocking the depths of their hearts without even knowing them. That's the beauty of writing.

Now, I still haven't answered what I intend to do with this blog. I don't know myself, so we're in this together here, right? So what do I intend to do? The plan is to share what I go through in my life and how I see things, more than probably relating to some of you; to chisel my writing skills because I am an aspiring writer, to find my 'voice', so to speak; and inspire people through my words, even though I may never be acquainted closely to every one of you.

To share my views of the world to the world, pouring out my feelings to a blank computer screen, hoping that someone somewhere in the world feels blessed, feeling lighter and a little better about themselves and the world, one post at a time.

-ayeletsgo©2015