New Year, New Blog!

Hi everyone! Welcome to my new blog, floweringpages! Never in a million years would I ever thought I would be blogging. I never even knew it would be something I wanted to do until recently. What really spurred my interest in wanting to create a blog was to connect with different people and to create something that others could relate to. I also just wanted an outlet where I could just write and share my love of books.

Starting this blog, I was very hesitant because I felt like, “Wow, not a lot of people are going to read my blogs at first,” or “What happens if it’s not good enough?” And that really stopped me from wanting to start a whole website—that whole “what if this” or “what if that.” And initially I wasn’t going to start this blog because of that fear of failing or not doing good enough. And far too often that fear of failure of not being good enough scares us all. But upon further thought, I realized that we all have to start from something and we have to push past our fear to do what scares us. I had to remind myself that celebrities, athletes, doctors, and nearly everyone has to start from somewhere to reach their goal. So I needed to start somewhere to work towards my goal. And just knowing that brought me so much inner peace in feeling that maybe someday blogging and writing will work out. If I didn’t start somewhere, I know a part of me would always wonder what would have happened if I did take that chance. I’m glad that I did.

So I’ll leave you all with another reminder that helped me through these initial days of deciding whether or not this blog should be.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

Rome was indeed not built in a day. It was build brick by brick, piece by piece by people who probably worked under the hot sun for countless hours trying to create a beautiful place. And through all that hard work and dedication, they eventually did. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Europe wasn’t built in a day. California wasn’t built in a day. Nothing large scale is built in a day. So don’t except success and immediate gratification in whatever you’re doing because things take time. It takes time to build up to something grand and magnificent. It takes time to figure out who you are as a person. It takes time to create something from nothing. So don’t be afraid of the vast unknown laid before you and all the arduous work, all the struggles, or all the pain that you might feel in trying to create, do, or become something. Because if you start somewhere, no matter how infinitesimal you’re work might seem at the moment, know that it’s only one brick or one step closer to building Rome or walking the path of a beautiful journey.

So whatever your New Year’s resolution or your ultimate goal may be, know as long as you start somewhere and keep trying and pushing through it, you’ll eventually be where you were meant to be. I hope nothing but love and positivity and happiness in your New Year. And remember to always keep building.

Love,