Three Years and a Day
Originally published on October 08th, 2019
It feels so strange to say that this blog has been live for three years and a day. Three years. When I started KeepsUsStargazing, I don’t think I envisioned sticking with it for this long, but here we are. It’s quite a feeling to think back to the sixteen year old girl who just wanted a place to put her thoughts, because if I go back and read the older things on this blog, the changes are clear. I can find clear distinctions between me at sixteen and me at almost twenty, but I guess that makes sense. I credit a lot of those changes to the last year.
In the last year, this blog has changed a bit. Books I’ve Read & Places I’ve Loved was completely redone in order to accurately share how my months go. I didn’t write as much last year because I was busy getting caught up on life, so at the beginning of June I started writing and publishing a crazy amount of posts. I updated the About page as often as I updated my major. In the past year, I have finished my first year of college and started my second. I changed my major twice and added a second minor. I worked backstage for a play and acted in two (including playing “Meg” in A Wrinkle in Time, which is an experience I will hold dear for many years to come). I made amazing friends. I cut my hair (again). I had a weird summer. I got two really cool jobs. The last year hasn’t been my favorite, but there were good moments inside it.
To go back to my original point, I really love that I have, in a sense, grown up on this blog. Sure, it’s only been three years, but they were a big three years. As you now know, I started this blog after deciding to quit acting and right before starting at a new high school. In the last few years, I’ve reclaimed my dream and made it into a plan, and successfully graduated from that high school before moving to Washington for college. The last three years have been full of turning points, multiple epiphanies, and vulnerable steps. Even if I hadn’t shared things explicitly, when I look back at old posts I can remember what I was dealing with at the time I wrote it. I get specific feelings for various months over the last few years. I’ve recorded so much, and I love that I get to look back on it all.
Thank you for sticking by for three years. Thank you for reading, and commenting, and sharing. Thank you for investing in parts of me and my life. I don’t know what the next year has in store, and I definitely don’t know where I’ll be in three years. What I do know is I love this blog and I love recording my life in this way. Thank you again. Here’s to the last three years, and to the next three, and even beyond. 💛
