why do i do this?

Some people who shall remain unnamed think it's funny that I love my blogs. Reading them AND writing them - although I'm not so good at keeping up with writing on a regular basis! But yeah, I really look forward to taking some time every day to scroll through my Google Reader. I started out with my cousins Heather and Holly's blogs, and Lora's blogs. It was nice to keep up with family members who i loooove soooo muchhhh, but live so far away. And Lora's blogs are hilarious and, more importantly, honest.

I started to venture out and see what else was out there. I love my foodie blogs - there are so many focused on Philadelphia. My first food blog, however, was not Philly but for Prague. Then I got super into travel blogs, or blogs about Americans or Canadians living and traveling overseas. It was like I got to live vicariously through their experiences.

But my most favorite blogs? They're the ones written by ordinary, run of the mill, young women like myself. There's nothing incredibly special about these blogs, but at the same time there is. Yes - a ton of posts are about what tv shows they're watching, what books they're reading, hanging out with friends on the weekends, what's happening with their relationships, and so on. I write the same things for the most part. What I find special about these blogs and their posts is that it shows we're all so darn different but going through the same general things. We're moving away from our college (or post-high school) selves and becoming real adults with real jobs and real apartments or real mortgages and long term relationships and engagements and marriages and break-ups and drifting from old friends but making time for them every so often and then meeting new friends.............. I'm not the only one going through this. Duh. But it's comforting to know how other people in my boat are dealing.

I've gone through a lot of changes in the past year. Sometimes I find these changes overwhelming. Who wouldn't? But I've been told I take things especially hard because I have "unrealistically high standards" for myself. I'm trying to work on being a little less anxious, remember that things work out in the end, and more people are on my side than I think.

So yeah...thanks to all you bloggers out there who give me some peace of mind and remind me that my problems are not uncommon nor are they as big as they seem to me. I'm a very, VERY blessed person when I look at the big picture, so I will work on remembering that, especially on rough days.