A fresh new start

I realized I hadn't been blogging since October. That's an extremely LONG time. So I decided, yet again, that I'd pick it up. I suppose I sometimes allow life to take over me and I don't find time to do the things that I love like blogging. This might be an odd time to pick up blogging again, considering I leave Florida tomorrow to head back home to Illinois for the holidays, but hey, better now then never is the way I look at it!

Blogging to me is a way of self expression, almost like a journal, but I have the option to make it public or private at my own expense. Some things I do like to keep near and dear to my heart with not many people knowing, other times...I like to be open and share my thoughts.

I've been toying with the idea of making this blog private, or exclusive to those that I feel safe to share my thoughts and personal life with. Reason being is that although some people read my blog and I don't care who you are, some things I plan to write about in the future, I do. It's not necessarily about trust, or me not liking you, but about how some people take what you say and turn it around to their story (if that makes ANY sense). 

I guess this thought comes from experience. Some people that I used to share a lot with, people that I thought were good, close friends, are proving to be the exact opposite. I know in life friends can come and go, but at the same time people that say they are your friends, that say to you that they do miss you, that they do enjoy you being around you, you would think that you could open up to, but that's not always the case. 

I'm learning a lot from people I used to be good friends with, people I'm now good friends with, and from myself. So I guess in the near future we shall see what I decide to do with my blog.