Why BLOG?

WHY BLOG? My first post!

My New Years Resolution for 2013 sounds very familiar to the well-known athletic brand sporting a swoosh- JUST DO IT!

Stop talking, although in my case it’s mostly thinking about it and simply do- not everything, but the things I say I’m going to do. For example, obtaining my Spanish drivers license, completing the mending, handwriting AND sending a letter to a friend and in this case starting a blog. The purpose is twofold re the Blog- to stay in contact with family and friends and to write- regularly about every day things-Life, The Universe and Everything in Between.

I’ve been looking at starting a blog for some time, had even started writing in Word for when I was going to put it all together. Very recently I read a dear friends and thought- just do it Kylie, stop procrastinating and write.

It’s one-way communication until someone reads it and comments, but what I found by reading my friends, was that I could hear her voice in her posts, I had insight into her mind and the issues she was grappling with. Her history, her current path, her concerns and thoughts about the future- they’re all there. I’m privy to so much more of her life than I have been since she left Valencia. We’ve remained friends and will continue to do so, however our divergent paths were inevitable based on mere geography. Throw into the mix us both having two young children and living in countries different to where we grew up- and it’s not surprising contact is minimal.

As far as my writing goes, I seem to have a typewriter going on in my head all day long. The act however, of actually sitting down and making those words something tangible, seems to get relegated down the list as other tasks crop up and I allow them to have priority over what I really want to be doing.

I have a friend who is very black and white- a male, who, when talking about something else I wanted to be doing, simply said, “ make it a priority! If your kids were dangerously ill you wouldn’t stop and put a wash on or get something out for dinner before you took them to the hospital- you’d get them in the car and go. If you want to do it, make it a priority”.

Oh to think like a man- but that’s a topic for another post!