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Entry #1: Escaping the Everyday

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  There isn’t much in my life that I do strictly for me. I work 40 hours a week, I work hard in school, and I have many social and familial responsibilities to take care of as well. Honestly, even a good majority of the media I consume is for the sake of being able to talk about it with my friends. So, what is it that I do solely for me? Socializing, sure, I do love spending time with and talking to others, but that isn’t much of a hobby, now is it? The next best option then is traveling. Although many of my trips have been to go see people who’ve moved away, or with a friend, I still make the intention of my trips to be that I go for the sake of me, to go have fun somewhere and escape my everyday life here in Arizona. In fact, I prefer to go on trips with friends, as it gives me the ability to fall back on someone else’s suggestions and opinions if I find myself not knowing what to do next. My first solo trip: September 2022. I had recently gotten back in contact with an old frien...

Entry #0: Becoming Bound to Blogging

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 I've never been someone who personally cares about blogs. I often look at them as uninteresting posts about people who I don't care about. I don't want to read about someones family vacations while I sit at home doing homework during the tiny bit of free time I have. I do, however, sometimes enjoy when friends of mine treat their social medias like this. I very much so care about when my friends share interesting aspects about their life. For example, My friend who recently went to Germany would post a bit about the trip, and honestly if anything I was upset that they didn't post more about it than they did. (I did however stalk them on Find My through iPhone since I make all my friends share their location with me). If any of them were to write a blog, I'm sure I'd read it semi frequently. The only other instance where I find myself reading blogs is accidentally when looking for advice or recipes online. Usually I do enjoy having access to these, as they usual...