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title = "Yet Another Blog"
date = 2024-02-25
updated = 2024-07-26
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{% note() %}
This was written in February 2024, months before I actually put up this site.
Although updated slightly, it's more or less the same as it was then.
{% end %}

I don't read people's blogs.  
Okay, fine.
That's a lie, there's like two that I actively read.  
*Still.*

I don't write either.  
Those "creative writing" assignments in school?
Those were the worst. I was _never_ any good at those.
Words are **_hard_** for me. Always have been, always will be.

For some reason, here I am, writing whatever the heck this is.

For the past while (year? two years?) I've been tossing around the idea of writing a blog/ramble/thing.
I didn't.
Every time I tried, I'd give up after writing a post or two, never actually putting it anywhere.

I'd justify it in a few ways:
- There's nothing I'm actually qualified to write about
- I don't have anything unique or important to say
- _I'm too embarrassed_

But, I think I've finally been convinced that it just *doesn't matter*.
There's no "right" way to go about this.
I don't need to live up to somebody else's standard.
I just need to [_write_ something](https://www.todepond.com/wikiblogarden/art/blog/).

If nobody cares, that's **totally okay**.
If someone somewhere does care, that's totally okay too.  
But that isn't the point. That doesn't matter.
The _point_ is to _write_.

"About what", you might be asking?
I have no idea. We'll see. Probably not one consistent topic.
~~To be honest I probably wouldn't have the attention span for that anyway~~.

Don't expect to find any well-written, well-researched informative articles here, or anything actually useful.
I fully expect there to be nothing but incoherent ramblings written at times of day better spent sleeping.
Maybe it'll just [be whatever](https://www.todepond.com/wikiblogarden/my-wikiblogarden/).

And that's okay!

## Note to Future Me

While I'm here, I should probably say hello to future me...

> Hello future me! How's the future? Do flying cars exist yet? Do _you_ have one? No? Go fix that. Come back here once you've done that.

Future me is probably reading this, and cringing _very_ hard.  
And that's fair, this *is* somewhat "cringe".  
_Embrace that_.

I can probably assume that reading this you (me) are horribly embarrassed, and probably tempted to take this post down, or even the whole site (that is, assuming you ever got around to making it public in the first place).
You'd rather it collect virtual dust on your hard drive, unseen and unnoticed, just like you.
Heaven forbid anyone actually _reads_ this. You might die of embarrassment.

But _don't_ give into that.  
That won't do you any good.  
Trust me.
