Up until about 8 months ago, I wasn’t focusing on anything other than my career and keeping my head above the water with all tasks associated with humaning. I didn't even find value in writing down my day-to-day life in a journal, other than the odd task or note for reminding myself about a thought the next day. Something about having a place to organize my thoughts and ideas, along with an outlet for creativity that is simple and doesn't rely heavily on visuals or graphic design, brings a sense of calm over me. My path to blogging and writing was, in my opinion, odd. But it's likely not an uncommon experience. Previously, I only knew personal creative writing with a pen and paper from when I was in school as a kid. But creative writing with pen and paper isn’t an enjoyable process for me; I spent more time focusing on my handwriting and legibility than getting thoughts from my head onto paper. I also wasn’t given a safe space to extract my thoughts without judgement. Let’s be honest, I also was very judgemental of my thoughts when I was younger. Perhaps those two are related 🤔🤔. For the past two years or so, I’ve been working with a psychologist to figure out how to decrease my internal judgement. I was also trying to understand how my ADHD brain could get thoughts out of my head in a relatively frictionless manner. I’ve learned a lot about how my brain works, what to expect in this process, and the systems I need to have in place to allow me to get shit done but have fun at the same time. So here I am, ready to dive into the world of creative writing and publish my own material for other humans to read online. Who knows where this will take me, but at this point I don’t really care where I end up.