Why I started this blog.

Hey guys!

Why did I start this blog? A question I have to answer to pretty often. People tend to ask me quite a lot. Why would you start a blog? Yeah why? It's not like it will be of any use in your future job. Then there are the moments I have to answer this question to myself. Renée, why did you start this blog? Okay okay, so then keep writing if your head is so full of stuff you needed a place outside your diary to write it down. 

But why did I actually start this blog? I don't remember it that clearly but thanks to the statistics on here I do know it was around the end of 2013. There is a thing I do remember which is that I already had the idea of starting a blog quite a while before 2013. I think I wrote something like this a while ago but I have always loved writing and I have always been into writing. Despite my very bad handwriting I've always been one of the better students when it came to grammar and spelling and building sentences. There have even been times where I was convinced that all I was good at was writing stories or writing down my days in diaries. So can you believe how miserable you feel when you can't finish a story or can't get yourself to write in your diary. Believe me you will feel terrible, it's like the only thing you are good at has just slipped through your fingers. So when I found out I'm not one to write a book as I always get stuck over some details or the passing of time, all the ideas got stuck in my head. Wanting to be written down and pushing and pulling to get to the front of my head hoping to be written down first when the moment would come. 

So one of the reasons I started this blog back in 2013 was to create a place for me to clear out my mind. Talk about topics that were taking over my mind or just weird thoughts that I started to over think and create new universes around. 
But Renée, why didn't you post anything after creating the blog? Well good question and honestly I have no idea. Maybe I just forgot I had made a blog or had no idea what kind of content to post and in what style I should write. Silly things like that could have ruined my enthusiasm back then. However the name ThatDutchGirl / ThatDutchGirl96 always stuck with me so that is how I got back to the deserted blog last year. It was around then when I felt like starting a blog again. I had a plan, kind of, and a pretty long list of things I wanted to blog about. A list that got crossed off really fast as I lost enthusiasm rather quickly and got stuck in a writers block not long after. 

Right now this blog is just a place to escape reality for a bit. This is the place I can talk about topics I can't discuss with my friends. The place I can truly express myself without feeling like I'm being judged (and yes I do know that is a weird thing to say on the internet as this is THE place to get judged and criticised). Just a place that is mine, that is controlled by me and everything on here feels like it's a tiny part of me. Of some parts I'm more proud than others but you know that's life and as long as I was proud of the post when I posted it I shouldn't delete it.  

Why I started this blog? I started this blog to have a place of my own where I am able to talk about whatever I want to without people interrupting me. To talk about the things I am interested in or the things that happen to be on my mind a lot. A place where I feel like no one will judge me. A place to fully express my opinion and share all the thoughts and stories that are stuck in my head. This is my personal bit of online space and I am really happy I decided to start a blog in 2013 and to actually start posting things on it in 2014. Now all there is left for me to find out is what my personal blogging style is regarding the kind of content I post and how I write things down and if and how I'm going to maintain this schedule I have going on. But let us not worry about that now. I will save you that for another time.

Lots of love from France,
ThatDutchGirl96