why i’m really glad i started a blog as a teen (1/3)
I started this blog without really knowing what I was doing. No plan. No structure. Just a vague sense that I had thoughts I needed to put somewhere that wasn’t the Notes app. At the time, it felt small. It mostly comprised typing out late-night rants (a questionable number of my posts are 2am thoughts), weird analogies (from Cockroaches to Chicken Nuggets ), and half-baked reflections. But looking back now, it’s one of the best things I've ever done. Not because it went viral. Not because it got a ton of views. But because it gave me something way more valuable: practice. Writing regularly helped me structure my thoughts better. And when your thoughts start to flow better, everything else follows. You start becoming clearer when you speak. You start noticing how people express themselves. You even start catching yourself mid-sentence thinking, “Wait, that actually makes sense.” That shift helped in more places than I expected. From presentations to class discussions, even cas...