One year, One blog to rule them all.

So I've been thinking about this post for a while now. Partially because this blog started out as a "how hard can it be?", after a conversation with a friend about their abandoned blog, and partially because it doesn't really fit the point of the blog.

To the first point; I was having a conversation with a friend of mine, now over a year ago, about a his blog. One that he had setup and posted one article then had simply never updated it. At the time, I was giving him guff about not updating and "how hard could it be", which inadvertently put that same thought in my head. "How hard can it be? you could probably do it.", said my brain, egging my ego into action. Eventually something broke, I bought a domain, setup a VM and am now hosting my very own blog. Now, a year after starting this thing, and "regularly" updating it, I have a slightly different opinion. Mostly, Its technically easy to blog, but on the other hand it can be creatively hard. Hard to think what to make articles about, hard to put ideas and thoughts into concise sentences, hard to convey the emotion of the article through the text that its confined too. 

With the second point, a "squishy" subject like personal achievement is not really the point of this blog. The blogs point is to document the efforts I'm making in my life, and to give me a vaguely written log about how I did things, so that 6 months (or 6 years) from its posting I can go back and re-read it and hopefully pick up where I left off, instead of starting over. But you could argue that all of my posts are personal achievements, they are just (usually) more technical achievements, instead of "touchy-feely" ones. Hence the conflict I feel about posting this post.

The only thing I'm certain of in this post, is that now is when the hard part begins. When my brain taunted my ego, it had set a "one year" timeline. A timeline that is now complete. A task that is done and completed. But what does that mean for the blog that I've now started? Do I continue? Do I stop? Likely I will abandon it, as my friend did with his. Life will come, the Blog will become deprioritised, and then quietly forgotten about, along with numerous other projects that I now consider "complete". I hope not. I hope that I will continue as I have for the last year. Posting semi-regularly, about things that matter to me. I hope that it will not be forgotten, nor ignored. Which means:

Now the hard part begins.