I started this blog on Thursday, 7th February 2013 when my life took a turn in terms of faith, the way I wanted to live and also various things going on in my life. It took me a while to think of a name for the blog - I went through different song titles, song lyrics, phrases, favourite words, creative names, and in the end I sat down with mum one lunch time and we whittled it down to a few. But, the final title of the blog - "On a Journey..." - wasn't in our last few choices that we had narrowed it down to.
When we finished our lunch that day, I said to mum, "I don't know what to call it. It's going to be a blog about my journey and I want people to join me on it...", and that's when I came up with the title.
Right from the beginning I wanted my blog to be pretty, and I wanted the design to reflect my personality, which I think I've been pretty successful in doing.
I also wanted to make blog posts about my life, my struggles, my thoughts, and things that I've come to realise about life and the world. I was only fourteen when I started the blog, but I felt that I had so much to say and I wanted a way to share it with anyone who was interested - so starting a blog seemed like a good way to go about it!
When this blog started, I was going through a lot of changes. Not just the normal changes, either.
I'd come to realise that I had to accept my M.E. as a part of my life, and that it will be a part of my life for as long as it needs to be. I'd also found my faith again, after a very difficult year in 2012, and I wanted to make my blog as a discovery path of my faith and my life. I was making changes to myself, wiping the slate clean and starting again because I wanted to be a Girl of God, and someone that people could look up to or come to when they needed anything.
It was along the way that I decided I didn't just want my blog to be all deep thoughts and musings about life; instead I wanted it to be honest, real and just a bit of fun from time to time. I decided to start posting about fun things I've done and great times in my life, and I also decided that I wanted my readers to get to know me less as a blogger with deep thoughts on everything, but more as a girl getting to know herself, having fun and learning to love life. I wanted the people who read my blog, people like you, to know my passions and my fears and my hobbies. I want to be honest on here, which is a hard thing to do sometimes.
I also recently decided that I wanted my blog to be a nice place to come for people when they are stressed, bored, upset or even just wanting to read something that doesn't have a plot line; something that is about real life and real life discoveries. I wanted visitors of my blog to come on here and smile - so I made a small photo gallery of some pretty pictures, I made a page called "music heals" filled with some of my favourite songs for every single mood, so that people know they're not alone. I made the "about me" page and filled it with random facts, so that people could feel as though they know me. I just like the idea that my blog is a "happy place", and it makes me happy when people comment on my blogs - sharing ideas, encouraging words or just their similar experiences.
Thank you for reading and/or visiting "On a Journey...", because it makes me happy to know someone is interested in what I have to say. I'm a dreamer, a thinker, a creative, caring heart and I want people to see that - not just "the girl who has M.E.". I think you're lovely, so please stay a while. Sit down, read some thoughts, make a cup of tea... tell me what you think, what you've been up to. I'd love to know.
Love,
Ellie x x
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