Why I Chose to Blog

Recently I have found myself reading blog after blog after blog. Blogs that are completely irrelevant to my life, blogs of inspiration, blogs that match my life to a t, blogs that make me laugh, cry, smile and the list goes on and on. At some point in my daily routine, I look at Elite Daily. Whether it is with my morning coffee or clicking on an article while scrolling through social media. I find myself nine times out of ten clicking on an article and instantly requesting my iPhone/iPad to open it in Safari so that I can read it at a later date. Just last night, my roommate also known as my best friend (WARNING: you will hear that a lot) took a Snapchat of me and I had no idea until I later checked my phone. My head was down and the caption read “Blogging it up!”  Normally, when I have the time to read blogs that I have previously ran across is when I finally wind down and crawl in the bed every night. Okay, maybe not every night because I LOVEEE to sleep, but I do it often. Last night, while the roomz and her beau were watching Tosh.O I chose to be glued to my iPad reading interesting blogs (I've never been a huge television person.) A few months back I had a thought about starting a blog but that’s all there was to it.. it was just a thought. Silly me, I have a million of thoughts that flood this brain of mine every day of what I could do with my life, so of course I pushed it to the back of my mind. As the time has passed since I first had that “thought," I have continued to read everyone else’s thoughts and opinions on this “oh so wonderful world we live in," the “20 Reasons to date a bearded man,” JUST TO NAME A FEW, and at times felt like I was living the life of the blogger and his/her daily adventures. I suppose I never gave it much thought because I doubted myself and my writing ability. Will my blogs be interesting? Will anyone even read them? What if I do not use the correct punctuation or I use run on sentences? After all, I have a few of my High School English teachers as friends on Facebook.

            Let’s clear something up before I am corrected on grammatical errors and all that comes with correct English. By no means am I some professional writer nor am I trying to be. I am not pursuing journalism at the current college I am attending nor am I trying to make myself known to maybe one day land a job as a writer. No, absolutely not, but I have always enjoyed writing. From love letters as a kid (WE ALL DID IT), to interesting papers as a college student.. Go back and read that sentence again, I said INTERESTING papers… Give me an assignment to write a paper on “How did the Roman Empire fall?” and more than likely, I will procrastinate as long as I can before I give it any more thought. Maybe that should interest me a little more than it does because it is a part of history, but to be honest with you, it does not strike my fancy. Now, if a professor assigned a topic to me such as “Financial Aide in Colleges Today” I can guarantee you that I would be fired up and ready to research it right away.. Why? Because that interest me, it probably does not interest you but that is not where I am going with this. I have my opinions on it, and I am sure you have yours, however, that is a topic for another day. My point is, once again, I love to write. I love to express myself.  For instance: If you are in my family or a close friend of mine, you better believe on your birthday you will get at least a 3 sentence shout out along with a picture on one of my social media accounts. Birthdays or special events are an excuse for me to be able to put into words what the relationship we share means to me.

            As of today, I read a blog by Alexis Bloomer. She is a beautiful, 21 year old college student from Texas, who has such a bright future. She is the host of “Alexis Bloomer Live” and “Alexis Bloomer, Off the Record” on Sirius XM Radio. I have heard her last name around the rodeo circuit for quite sometime now.. If you know anything about the horse industry more than likely you've heard of Bloomer Horse Trailers, that is her family. I follow Alexis on twitter and obviously read her blogs. She is a normal young woman, pursuing a degree in Mass Communications and is currently making an impact on the world at such a young age. From what I have read and what I see, she is a beautiful person inside and out. Please do not confuse me acknowledging her success as me wanting to live her life or being weirdly obsessed with her. Would it have been extremely awesome to host MY very own talk show a year ago at 21 years of age? Well heck yes but that is not why I have mentioned her name. I am mentioning her name because of one reason. The beauty in her post has inspired me to create my own blog spot. This morning her most recent blog was flooding my Facebook from rodeo friends from all over sharing it which is titled “Why Rodeo is One of the Most Marketable Sports, but Still Not Mainstream.” If you know me, you know that this interest me. Of course, I clicked on the link and asked my phone to open it in Safari so I could read it when I had a spare minute. It has been a while since I last looked at her blog site so after reading that blog, I scrolled through to catch up on what I have missed. One post of hers that instantly grabbed my attention was titled “Stop Living in Fear." Just the title struck my interest and actually has placed me at this keyboard, writing a blog.. my FIRST blog tonight. My heart is beating at a rapid pace and I continue to hit the backspace….. probably more times than you or I could count. I am going out on a whim here and I’m going to take a shot at expressing my feelings and writing blogs whenever I have the time about topics that interest me. Yes, I am scared of failure in every aspect of my life, I have always been that way, but today I am facing the fear about being a “blogger," not a "professional blogger” but a "successful blogger" 

            Bruce Lee once said: “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” That my friend is exactly what I am going to do.  I am going to be myself in every blog I post, I will express myself, and I will have faith hoping that my thoughts and feelings may touch the life of someone else in some sort of way just as Alexis’ touched mine. If you do not agree with my post, that is okay, but please keep the negative comments to yourself. I will write on my own life experiences and my personal opinions. I have already jotted down topics that I cannot wait to write about and I am stoked to see where this journey takes me.

Don’t Stop Believing,

Brandie

PS. If you may be interested in following Alexis I have listed her blog below.

https://alexisbloomer.wordpress.com/