A First Blog Post

It’s been difficult to decide what my first blog post was going to be. I knew it had to be meaningful, at least in some form. My original thought was that I should just make content like I would otherwise. Just review or analyze whatever was on your mind recently. However, that felt insufficient. 10 years down the line when I look back at my first post, I do not want it to be about a show I barely remember (sorry Dragon's Blood).

Something that holds up over time feels like the correct decision for curating my blog.

Something that holds meaning when it is looked back upon, not just as a form of nostalgia, but as something more than that. I considered top 10 lists, but I do not feel like I’m particularly knowledgeable on the entire scope of any topic to write a top 10 list. This does not mean I will not do them, just that those lists will change so drastically over time that what they say may not hold weight in the future. While it would still be cool to look back upon those lists in the future and see how my opinion has changed that still just doesn't feel meaningful enough. Not for what it has taken for me to finally start writing consistently.

What should be my first blog post is already on the front screen it seems. A description of why am I here, and what I am doing.

And then it hit me.

10 years down the line my blog won’t look like this.

10 years down the line I may have forgotten why I began this in the first place.

10 years down the line everything this is supposed to be might be lost, or at the least different.

So I’ve decided that my first blog post isn’t going to be representative of what the content will be like from here on out.

It will instead be a reminder to myself for how this all began. How I finally ended up starting my blog.

So here, future Esah, is what you wrote on the front page when you finally decided it was time to put your writing out there.

I wish you the best. I hope you never lose what has driven you here.

And for everyone else who is viewing this,

Welcome to my journey.