1 Year of Blogging

     1 year ago on a Saturday, I was bored, unsure what to do, just going through the internet. One thing I did when I was bored was test around with random google services, and one of them happened to be Blogspot. I checked it out, and soon enough created this.

    I didn't like the default template UI it gave me for the blog's design, too modern for my taste. I always wished that I grew up in the 2000s, I've seen so many 2000s nostalgia-themed videos that emulate life being a kid growing up in the 2000s, showcasing at the time the technology, internet, trends, etc. So I figured I should give my blog an older looking design.

    When using the blog, in mind I thought that I should make posts almost daily, but unfortunately I've barely done that, it's been a year and with this post, it brings me to exactly 20 posts. Despite it being a small amount, I'm happy with it, I've captured some important moments of my life throughout that timeframe. I'm likely to continue using this a lot more in the future, as I hopefully gain a bit more recognition, because I have so many things to say about the world that I wish people could hear, but I don't yet have the audience.

    Throughout the year that I've had this, I've grown a large interest in blogging and Blogspot. I've explored so many blogs, even inactive ones that haven't had any new posts in years, some that I've found don't even have any posts at all and were made in the 2000s, later to be left out. But this won't be left out, I'll try to keep it active to hopefully gain more people following along that would hopefully look back at my older posts.

-Anthony “Salteh” S. • • •

My Resolution

    Happy new year. I started writing this on January 2nd so I know it doesn't seem right for me to be saying this.

    Every year, we ask each other what our new year's resolution is. I never really had one in mind throughout my life. I never really had a sense of direction in life, I just did what I felt in the present and let that carry me through things. But this time I've figured something out, and I want to follow that as much as I can this year.

    Throughout my life, I never really thought of myself as too special of a student in school. In my mind, I was always comparing myself to my classmates and my sister, which embarrassed me, especially since I came from a smart family. I don't want to make myself look dumb in comparison to everyone else, so I want to try dedicating myself to school more. I'm currently doing pretty decent in school, but I don't want to do decent. I want to go past expectations simply to impress my teachers and classmates. I really want to do the best I could possibly do, and if that means spending less time with family and caring about them less, then sure, I don't really like my family anymore anyway.

    I also want to work more on my interest in different types of media (music, films, shows, games, etc.) to really find more inspiration for different things. I'd also like to read more, I have some books just lying around that I want to read. Despite all that, I really want to stop damaging my eyes since I've had to wear glasses for most of my life, which will be tough since there's a lot of media I want to consume, despite the fact that listening to music and reading won't hurt my eyes. To help with that, I'll try to use social media way less and practice guitar more. Hopefully some of those things could also give me more time to work on music. Since I'm 14, I can't really start selling music since Bandcamp requires me to be at least 16 to make money off selling music. So for now, I want to just release EPs, hoping to gain some attention from it and gain a bit of a following so when I eventually release 'Nightwriter' in a few years, the debut album I finished writing last year, it won't just be something no one knows or cares about when it drops. I want to do something like Lil B did, where he had so much time on his hands that he's released so many mixtapes and has a whole catalog of it, I want to do something like that but with EPs.

    That's it. It may be a lot, it may be hard to maintain, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.

-Anthony “Salteh” S. • • •