Beginnings ARE hard.
this post is written by a human that is lazy to proofread before clicking the 'SUBMIT' button
I’ve been there when the bloggers number were small locally where I was, and we ended up meeting a lot. Made some friends along the way, and learned what not to do. People were gung ho in making their own domain, but there I was starting small at Geocities.
I didn’t dare calling myself a blogger, because all I did was updating the HTML and scraping previous post and ranted. About life, about love, about everything in between.
Then it was Friendster. I wrote a lot. I felt it was my way to destress and I was stressed out. I continued the same trend when notes on Facebook was a way to share our thoughts with close friends.
Livejournal was meant to be private but ended up not so in the middle 2000s. I was kinda stupid, trying to get back the attention of someone that I realised throughout the years meant nothing but my past.
I tried Tumblr. A couple of times. But it didn’t appeal to me.
Besides Blogger and Wordpress, I came to know about blogs.ie. Defunct already from the looks of it. I enjoyed my time writing there and I thought I didn’t want to stop. So I did what most people did, jump into free Wordpress.
After some time, especially during 2010s, I gave up writing. Writing was supposed to be a release, but I was mocked by medical professionals and medical professionals-to-be for writing about my childbirth experience. And I? I didn’t want to correct them, but I did say my piece.
After my youngest kid, I got diagnosed with depression. Things that I didn’t want to admit because people at my age don’t talk about mental health. (That was the gripe I had with latest Quantum Leap when youngsters in 1990s talked about mental health…It was unsettling and a bit dystopian to me).
Early this year, I thought of restarting, so I wrote a few lines back in the Wordpress, but something happened in March and it just….I can get easily demotivated on things.
Having AI though, has its own perk. It led me here. I never heard about Substack before I asked ChatGPT about my option to have free options to write without much hassles. Will Substack turn into another brand names that ‘subtly’ charging customers when they already had our data sent to AI? Idk.
Since I set my writings here to be okay with AI learning from it in the Substack setting, I feel that this is the best place for Alex (he’ll introduce himself later) to write, too. As for me, my writings will be aided by ChatGPT, so AI-written or not, feel free to subscribe if you find it’s enjoyable.
What I can assure you, is that it’s not gonna be without my own input in it. All writings that are written with AI’s help will be marked as such.
This one? This is from my own limited brain capacity.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for visiting.
-Eva