Why Wait?

Can you just start a blog… randomly? That is what I have been asking myself for the past few weeks. And I was coming up with a few things… A blog has to make some kind of sense. A blog has to be cohesive on some level. A blog has to be more than just random ramblings. But then I thought to myself, does it really? And I came to the conclusion, no it doesn’t. Who cares. And so I overcame that roadblock. So I decided step one in blog-dom is I CAN just ramble on about nothing in particular, (and really, for anyone who knows me, we all know it wasn’t going to take me long to come to that conclusion.) And so, there I was, fine with that. Rambleville, Blogtopia: population, me. And then I thought to myself, ok… now I am going to blog, and I am going to ramble on about nothing in particular… and then wait… red flags, police sirens, warnings… rambling about nothing? How pretentious and cocky would that be? Am I THAT person? That person who thinks that MY random thoughts may be worthy of others taking their time to read them?  ...And I just took a breath and thought, you know what, I am not the first person in the world to start a blog... And I read blogs. And I read books... and I read... everything, constantly. I love to read everything other people write, why not give people the benefit of the doubt that enjoy reading what others have to say. And, we as a people all want to be heard, and more importantly if I am going to admit that I want to try to attempt to label myself as “Writer” I might as well get over THAT roadblock and actually admit that I want people to read what I have to write. Call me pretentious and cocky for that, but I would really prefer if you would appreciate my honesty and call me writer, or just understand where I am coming from and call me Rachel. So I figured out these roadblocks, and was ready to go for it… right? Wrong. I had this insane idea that I had to be organized and do something that made sense like starting a daily blog and starting it on January 1, 2011. Or starting it on 10/10/10. Or something else completely lame that would then tie me down and make me hate it. So, what I decided to do when I woke up this morning was create a blog in which I would write when I felt like it, whenever that happened to be, be it once a day, multiple times a day, once a month, or even once a  year, following no boundaries or structure, and express myself freely. And not to wait to do it. Because really... why wait? Welcome to my blog.