Hi I’m Teags, just a regular everyday 26 year old and my life is a work in progress. I started this blog as a place to keep my stories and thoughts, with the hope that one person might read it and be able to relate to my stories and maybe feel like they’re not the only one.
The idea came to me after I realized that I was having the same conversations with people from all parts of my life. So many of them could relate to, or compare what I was going through to something they were also experiencing and the statement: “oh my god I didn’t know that happened to other people” or “What you think like/about that too? I thought it was just me” came up all too often.
After these conversations, I would think why this person didn’t know I also struggled with that, or man am I glad I found someone else who does that, I thought I was the only one. It made me feel like I could handle just a little bit more in life.
I was so grateful to have these wonderful people in my life with all different backgrounds that could relate to my thoughts and feelings.
But then I started thinking, as I tend to do often, what about all the other things that I go through that my “people” can’t relate to?
Are there other people out there silently dealing with all these things?
And what about people who don’t have anyone to share these things with, do they just go through life thinking they’re the only one?
After one of my classic 5-hour long life chats with a friend, she joked that I should start writing these things down because she loves hearing my stories and thought other people would too.
I laughed it off at first but then over the next year I started writing down thoughts and conversations I have with people, more for myself than anyone else, but I still was too scared to put it out there.
From there it evolved from writing down deep thoughts and feelings to other things like documenting my travels, and saving different recipes or fun crafts “DIY” projects I do. I found joy in just writing things down, and being able to share my experiences, deep or not, with other people.
But I still haven’t put any of it out there, to the world.
I was worried.
What if people judge me? What are they going to think? No ones going to read it anyways.So what? If I enjoy doing it, and it’s not hurting anyone, who cares?
So, I wrote this post as an intro and decided I would just bite the bullet and go for it. If no one other than my family and friends reads this then I didn’t lose anything anyways.
So, hey family and friends thanks so much for taking a look, and if anyone else makes it this far thanks for reading. I really hope at one point you can find something I write about that is relatable and if anything, at least helps you know that no, you’re not the only one, and yes we are all just a work in progress.
But know now that you can do it all with Teag (ME!)
