An Introduction to Me and My Blog...

Do you ever have those times when something is on your mind so often that you feel like you’re literally supposed to do something about it?  I’m not talking about our moral compass; I’m talking about other random things.  Like, feeling like playing the electric guitar one day.  As if the thought just randomly popped into your head and your brain was like, “YES!  THIS IS WHAT I WAS BORN TO DO!”  As if the heavens themselves opened up and God Himself looked down on you and said, “Yes!  This is my vision for you!”  

Yet you’re scared to give it a shot because you were afraid of it not working out.  Or maybe even moreso of it actually working out.  So you try to avoid it, you try to fill your mind with other random things.  More commitments, more fun.  Maybe some food. Yet no matter what you try to do, the thought won’t ever leave you alone?  Deep down inside you just know that you’re supposed to do this thing for some reason?

Maybe I’m the only person who feels that way sometimes.  Or maybe not.  Point being, it’s been weighing heavily on my mind recently to start writing a blog, and to be honest, it’s not something that I would have ever really seen myself doing.  In fact, for a long time I thought writing blogs and such was lame and only for those who were desperate to be ‘artistic.’  (I know, very immature of me.  I’m deeply sorry to all my now fellow bloggers.)  

But even though I harbored such vile thoughts, I constantly found myself reading other people's blogs.  So I’m unsure what exactly turned me away from writing my own.  It’s not as if there is some ‘middle grey area’ in between reading blogs, which is ‘cool,’ and writing one, which all of a sudden somehow makes you an otaku. 

Perhaps it was the idea that if I started something, I would have to see it through and finish it?  (I hate leaving things half done or unfinished.)  Or maybe it was the challenge of constantly having to come up with new content that caused me to push off the inevitable?  Or maybe it was the fact that I am my LEAST favorite subject and I despise writing in the first person!?

Whatever it was, I could think of a thousand reasons why I shouldn’t start a blog.  For example:

1) I’ve never done it before.  

A) How would I start?  

B) Where would I start?  

C) Or, more importantly, what even IS a blog!?

2) No one would read what I have to say.  

A) I’m boring.
B) Other people are so much more interesting.

C) Why would anyone listen to what I have to say?

3) If I started a blog, I would leave myself wide open to—GASP!—USER FEEDBACK!  Which could NEVER be a good thing.  Right?

4) A meteor would strike my house and blow everything up because I said the wrong words and accidentally offended it’s kind in one of my posts.

And that’s only FOUR reasons.  I could easily come up with a hundred more.  And yet, that inner voice of mine wouldn’t LEAVE ME ALONE UNTIL I FREAKING STARTED A BLOG.  So after much thought and time; I decided I should give this blog thing a shot.  If not only to quell that inner voice; then to see where this goes.  Who knows, it could be a lot of fun.  (Or so I’m trying to tell myself at 5:15 in the morning after getting home from working all night.)

And all that leads me to this moment here.  The opening of my first official blog!  And after much mulling over, I have decided that this is going to mainly be my outlet of sorts for ramblings about my various passions.  Albeit anime, or Star Wars, or Marvel, or what have you.  So I hope that some of my posts interest you and can start a conversation between you and your friends, or even between you and me!  And, hey, feedback is the best part about doing anything like this, so don’t be afraid to comment and share your thoughts with me!  I promise I won’t bite.  Much.

~Ruku-San