Young @ Heart: An Introduction


 
 
 
Hello there, and welcome to my blog! I’m a bit new to this whole “blogging” thing but I’ll try my best.

 

My interest for blogging started a while ago. I started watching video blogs on YouTube for a number of years and was always enthralled at how people could just bare their lives on the Internet (some paid, some not). But when you add laziness, lack of confidence in front of a camera with a dash of inept for technology, I knew I had to go elsewhere. I felt that if I was making video blogs, I’d be doing it for the wrong reasons. I would have been doing it to get “YouTube famous” versus just being honest with who I was. So, with that in mind, I decided to go with the old-school route: writing.

Writing is not new to me. I’ve kept a journal or a diary sine I was in elementary school, but the things I’ve written in there are too personal for me to share online. Now that I’ve been getting older, I’ve wanted to find that balance between confessing my rawest emotions in my journals but not being fake happy all over Facebook. And that’s where blogging has come in. One of my former coworkers, in addition to relatives, have asked if I ever thought of writing for a living. I have, but I think right now this is going to be the best option for myself: doing it for free without expecting anything in return.

Now, for the name of my blog. Why did I choose “Young @ Heart”? Well, there’s several reasons for that:

1)      I drew some inspiration from Hannah Hart on YouTube. She incorporated her last name into her YouTube channel, and I thought that was pretty cool. Not to mention she's charismatic, funny, loves to cook and drink, and she's great at making puns.
 
                                  How can you not like that face? Seriously, she's adorable.

2)      Growing up, people always told me I had a big heart.

3)      I love my last name. It’s to the point where I’ve honestly wondered if, in the event I got married, if I would keep it, hyphenate it, or take my husband’s name and replace my middle name with my maiden name. (But that’s a story/blog post for another day).

4)      Even though I’m physically and mentally getting older, I want to remain young at heart. I’m trying my hardest not to let the world (and myself) get in the way of seeing the beauty in every day. It’s not always easy. I’ve definitely had my dark days and moments where I get angry and resentful, but then I have to keep everything in perspective. Will some of the things I struggle with matter five or ten years down the line? I don’t want to be that person who dies at 25 and isn’t buried until I’m 75. I don’t want to dread each day and lose passion for the things and people I care about. I want to be able to put a smile on my face and see the good things in this world.

I’ve only got one life to live and I’ll be damned if I let petty things keep me down and from maximizing my full potential. It’s like the bouncer who checked my ID this weekend said: stay young.

So that’s what I plan to do: remain young at heart, age with grace, and try to keep a smile on my face.

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