Who am I & Why am I writing a blog?

Hello & welcome!

Let’s start off with who I am,

I’m Ashley, and I am a 23 year old female, full-time college student, ADHD’er, dog-mom, fiancé, and professional over-thinker. My hobbies and interests are widespread but I’ll give you a few of my favorites- anything outdoors, true crime, writing, conspiracy theories, cooking, and of course, scrolling mindlessly. Besides my favorite hobbies, some of my favorite things are the color pink, music, taco bell, winter time and Dr. Pepper. On the other side, I can’t think of any hobbies I actually hated, but I have had terrible experiences skiing, I have no artistic ability for painting or drawing, and golfing is an acquired taste. I hate cockroaches, most reptiles, spiders, milk, and I’m not the biggest fan of ketchup.

Now let’s get to why I’m writing a blog-

Well, the major blowup of content creators inspired me to try sharing my own, but I stumbled over a few areas. If you’re familiar with the mindless doom scroll of social media, I’m sure you’re aware of how picture perfect everything seems to appear- even though nothing online is as it appears to be, social media does an amazing job at making you think everyone is somehow living better. I didn’t want that, needing things to look a certain way, making things a way they wouldn’t normally be, and just making people feel like maybe the way they’re doing things isn’t the “right/normal” way. I know the internet has made me feel this, I didn’t want to do the same to others, I wanted realness, transparency, and truth. My next stumble was the lack of privacy, I know doing anything online is not necessarily private, but I didn’t feel comfortable sharing my face or the inner more meaningful pieces of my life. So how could I share my thoughts online with more privacy while still maintaining relatability and realness? A blog called my name, and now here I am!

I hope you got a pretty good idea and I hope you found and continue to find relatability, realness and comfort here. I will be writing '“adventures” as I’m going to call them- all my thoughts, on all the things, so feel free to let me know anything you’d like to read about, click the subscribe tab to be notified when I post and welcome again!

Talk soon,

Ash

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