TWO YEARS ON NEVERTHELSSGREATNESS || may 2021

     This is kind of... unbelievable. 

    Today marks two years that I've spent on this blog since my very first post. 

    This place is like a sense of therapy for me- whether I post what I write or not. I actually have a ton of posts that I wrote in the early hours of the morning just to get the thoughts out on the page. I'm sure now if I looked back at them they'd all be insanely incoherent and make more sense at the moment when I wrote them, but that's okay. They were planning on staying in the drafts anyways. 

    I feel like I don't a good enough job keeping this thing up to date with everything that's happening, but trust me when I say it is always something I'm looking forward to writing for. Obviously, writing is such a huge outlet for me, and having this one be up and running for two years (sporadically) is a pretty big deal for me. I've always wanted a blog and a place where I can share my thoughts or talk about whatever I want to on it. This space allows me to do just that. No, I don't have any kind of fancy setup, and in two years I don't make money off of it (probably because I don't post enough on here to be worth anyone's time LOL) but I kind of love it for that? 

    In the past two years, I went from just about being done with my sophomore year, to now almost done with high school and getting ready to go to college. I lost my baby fat, and I have a nose piercing. I understand my true essence a little bit more, and I know how to style flare jeans. I still listen to an insane amount of music, and I write books that only I can geek out about (because nobody sees them). But instead of being sixteen without a license, I'm eighteen and ready to see whatever the world has to offer. 

    Don't get me wrong, I'm still the same girl, and I'll always be the same in my core, but I've learned so much more about myself, and I've grown so much more within two years than I've ever even realized. 

    I've also added on a podcast and a youtube channel that I'm extremely passionate about as well, and I'm doing things and making things that I'm truly proud of- this blog one of them. I obviously do feel like I can do better in posting on here, but I'll probably always feel like there are ways to expand and grow this thing in ways that I see fit for my future. 

    This blog, honestly, was a constant for me when a lot of other things weren't. As I said before, I have about thirty to forty unpublished and unreleased posts that will never see the light of day because I wrote them when I wasn't exactly fully awake. They're important to me, though, even if nobody else gets to see them. I believe that that's when the best kind of writing happens. 

    Although... I do have some in my drafts that I think I'd like to share at some point- the ones that never made it to publication because I wrote them too early in the morning to remember to press the publish button the next day. Maybe some of those will see the light of day pretty soon.

    Anyways, thanks mostly to this domain- www.neverthelessgreatness.blogspot.com- for being there for me, always. I hope to utilize this a little bit better in the years to come, but two years strong for right now ain't so bad, right? 

Here's a picture of me taken five seconds ago, unedited. No rhyme or reason to it, but I feel like I need to keep one tied to this like a scrapbook or something :) 

    xx.