Hello Bear-World!
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I've never been a blogger in my life.
I missed the mark during the skyblog era. Spending my time mostly on MSN and on a few forums. Although a few years after, I embarked on Facebook - which took the overhand on the approach of journaling online, changing the status quo: posting and writing became easier and streamlined to the bone. Which felt perfect for a teenager like me at the time. Impatient and nonchalent.
Anyway. There is a strange nostalgia that emanates when I see old blogs. It's a time machine that makes us feel older each time a little more. And I miss those personalized elements that are so tangible. Sometimes quirky or extravagant - yes, absolutely, but it has its charm. Those old blogs hold precisely this idiosyncrasy proper of an era long gone now, on which we superpose the impression of innocence (the innocence of our childhood and the innocence of the internet of that era).
By essence, those old blogs were always the result of a thought process of the individual behind it. Every aspect could be adjusted. While other plateforms become more and more impersonal: everything blends into the rigidity of an imposed grid. While the algorithm - like an overarching presence or "a new god in the system" - takes care to choose what you'll discover in your feed.
The idea here is not to reiterate by nostalgia something that is missing in me, or trying to connect by communion to a past self. I want here to go on the journey of nurturing this blog. To commit on the page. To break the bad habit of passivity, and hopefuly it will be a good exercise at formulating ideas. I'll take a thread out of the ball of wool and see how it unfolds.
So, hello bearblog! Your minimalist aspect calms my soul. And going through your discovery feed allows me to follow my instincts actively instead of scrolling passively indefinitely...