Entry #1- Author and Details

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I thought it would be appropriate for the first post on this blog to be some sort of explanation of who I am and the reasons why I've decided to start it. My name is Emma, I'm seventeen, and I'm currently a junior in high school. I enjoy many things as many people do, with those things mostly surrounding music, writing, and anything within those realms. I've always had a love for these things, and I see it in the rarities I hold from my childhood. I see it in the strings of a cheap guitar I used to pluck in the most random order imaginable. I also see it in the endless amount of journals that I would start but never finish, with the subjects ranging from elementary play dates, to songs I would write and then scratch over with a pencil out of the fear that someone other than me might see it. My love for these things have always been embedded in me, but I don't think my love for music really started until I was forced into a guitar class in the 7th grade. I wholeheartedly believe that if it wasn't for this class I wouldn't be so passionate about music, and I'm forever grateful for it. 

As of today, I have to admit my plans are sort of a hot mess but then again so am I. What I do know is that for my long term I desire to continue down the paths of music, writing, and possibly criminal justice. Throughout the past year or so, I've been working on an musical project that in all I think will forever be unfinished, but this is something I embrace. I think that art in all is always unfinished,  especially since everyone is constantly having new experiences that are helping us to grow and change our perceptions on everything. I personally don't like going into much detail about it as well, as I believe that if I tell people my plans and aspirations in full, they will never truly happen. I'm absolutely ecstatic for what my future will hold for me and cant wait to grow into a better, more authentic person.  

Like I said before, there's an endless amount of reasons as to why I've decided to start this. I think the most obvious and pretentious reason for me to do this is because it does look somewhat good for colleges, but to be honest I really don't care about this. As vague as it may sound, I want to do this because I want to do this. I don't have any outside forces acting on me that are forming the reason's as to why I'm doing this, and I think that's why I'm so passionate about this even before its really even begun. I want to know more about everyone around me, and one thing I absolutely adore is when people talk about things they love or things they're passionate about. As a whole I think this is going to be more of a giant, collaborative diary, and that's exactly what I want it to be. I want to be able to preserve the points in our lives that move so quickly.

I'd also like to address the reason why I've choose to do this on such an old, mostly unused format like blogspot, instead of creating an actual website or doing it on some other form of social media. Personally, I love this format so much, especially how simplistic it is. I know its simplicity may strike people as either me just being lazy or willing to put the effort in, but that's not true. I don't want some overtly flashy website that's hard to navigate or just honestly really unnecessary; I want people to focus on the content rather than the stand the content is displayed on. I also think its necessary to have some sort of contrast, since the content is going to be rather free form, and what I mean by this is that the content may vary from things like video entries to written ones, and the topic may change as well. All I really want is to have people focus on the content more than anything else, and I don't want to waste more time and energy on a website or whatever, and I want the pure focus to be what I'm publishing.

In the end, I plan on keeping this blog as authentic as possible. This right now is just a starting point for me, and that's okay. I know I don't know everything about how this is going to work or even if I'll have enough people interested in the articles. All I know at this point is that I'm absolutely dedicated to this in every way imaginable.

*Quick Note: I do plan on keeping updates like these in the future if necessary and will put them in their own separate column for easier navigation:))