This is a short blog post to say that in 2023, I challenged myself to vlog every single day of my year. It was a lengthy and sometimes emotionally challenging experience, but one that I held myself to. If you want to take a look at that, all of the videos are in a playlist here. Weekly vlogs chronicling every day of my year. And while a lot of monumental things happened in 2023 while I’ll be glad to have a permanent record of forever, I’d have to be slowly losing my grip on reality to continue that into 2024. It was a lot to film something every day, but it was even more to have a record of every era I’ve had staring back at me from a YouTube channel. It made me introspective to a fault. Was I happier two months ago? Why are the vlogs getting shorter? Am I having less fun? And so, the breakdown ensues.
For 2024, I want something more manageable that still pushes me creatively. And I’ve tried to have a blog before, but it’s always been somewhat of an exercise in futility. I think my drive has shifted a lot in 2023. Previously, I hadn’t even been able to keep up with 1-Second-a-Day. And suddenly, I’ve vlogged every single day of the year. Previously, I’d never been able to finish writing a novel. And suddenly, I finished writing two in the space of a year. So, for a resolution for 2024, picking up a new blog and forcing myself to produce content on it seems like a realistic shout. One of the comforting things about vlogging was that it felt like shouting into the void, a little. I was sharing my life to an extremely personal extent, but there were hardly any people watching. I liked that – it felt intimate. It was never about engagement, because it was about maintaining a personal record of my life. I hoped it would help me to slow down. And, maybe to my surprise, it worked. This blog will hopefully keep that energy going.
Anyway, I’ll likely start populating this over the course of December, but here’s to 2024. Strangely, it’s a year I have extremely good vibes about.
A x