And Here We...Go

It's the first day of April, which means it's time to blog every day, or BEDA.

Does anyone even do BEDA anymore? I feel like the vlogging cousin of BEDA, VEDA, has become much more popular lately. And if people even are blogging, well they certainly don't seem to be doing it here. I think that in the past, I would have seen this as discouraging. However, lately I have been trying to see the benefits of doing things just to do them, especially when it comes to writing. I have missed out on so many years of just writing, because there were things on my mind or writing something silly because I felt that it was a bit of a stress relief and I felt that there would be no point to it.

And maybe there still isn't much of a point to it. But, I have found lately that I thrive too well in environments where there is some sort of deadline (like the due date of a research paper) than when I say I will do something as much as possible each day. Maybe 18 years of school have programmed me to that point. Either way, it is something that I feel that I need to break out of and I am going to start it with making sure that I blog about something every day. So far, I have kept with actually blogging with semi-consistency. I mean, I have more blog posts up for the year 2013 than from all of 2012.

I am worried that three days in I will run out of things to write about, or that half way through I will give into the pessimism and just stop all together. Usually, that would stop me from even trying to start this endeavor in the first place (except that it isn't really an endeavor as it is just sitting at my computer for a little while everyday and typing away but, whatever). At least, this time I am starting which is more than I can say for my attempts of the past.

Hopefully, this sets the tone for me in other aspects of my life. Of course, I say that about anything that I do and then it turns out that I just revert back to what I was doing before. Maybe that will be the case with this. In fact, it is very likely that once I am finished with BEDA that I will blog about once every few months until the end of the year. There is that small chance that I will keep on blogging, or more importantly keep on writing in any medium, everyday, which is something that I would like to do. Maybe it is silly, or even a bit pathetic, that I need something like BEDA to get me to write every day, but if it could work out for me, why shouldn't I at least give it a shot?