Hey Folks...

This month surrounds a theme called “Define Yourself” and it’s a theme I needed this year, especially for this month because I feel like I’ve faced so much changes over the course of the year and it’s time to really define this new person I’ve become as weird as that sounds. So confession time! I signed up to blogger as a sort of academic requirement and I wasn’t planning on  using it at all until I was somehow persuaded to write a few things by this really nice young lady I hang out with… She’s a fashionista and a great blogger, check her out. http://hellorasida.blogspot.co.uk/

Anyway, when I started this blog everything was so directionless; therefore, I thought it would be wise to give it a very broad title that would allow me to just ramble on about anything. However, when I posted the first post I thought it had this sort of optimistic, philosophical aura, which was really different from anything else I’ve written and I remember thinking consistency was going to be a major problem. I developed this sudden interest for quotes last year and it led to me unknowingly creating my own for the first post and I thought wait, why not make quotes a reoccurring factor in the blog – so I did. Valentine’s week came around and I wrote two poems and that caught me off guard because the only time I’ve ever written poetry is when I’m asked, forced or faced with the unusual urge to just write one (but I’m pretty sure I could count on one hand how much poems I’ve written in my entire life prior to starting this blog) and love is a topic that is very rare in my work, so I was amazed by how well those poems turned out. Then came my first rap-etry piece which stemmed from a poem I started to write but found myself later rapping; the interesting thing is I feel rap-etry is a remarkable technique to use if you want to slaughter issues you feel passionate about (despite me using it to stupidly attack Autumn). I feel to really do rap-etry justice you'll need a lot of passion for a cause and a sort of deep rooted interest for that particular art and that’s just never been my lane. However, I like a good challenge so I’ve decided that when it comes to discussing more controversial topics I’ll definitely launch a few y’all way. The main point is one post led to the next and it sort of all fell into place; I’m trying to show that there are these little unnoticeable steps we take in life that leads to something much larger, but that’s just one of my many reasons for writing this post.

My initial intention surrounded this idea of simply addressing certain topics from a superficial perspective in order to avoid posting anything too personal or controversial.  Truth is I knew by doing that, I’d be robbing the blog of having a personality and I think that was just extremely sad because in my opinion, one crucial element that makes a written piece really great is that engaging identity it emits if that makes any sense. Most importantly, I knew I wouldn’t be giving this blog my very best and that’s something that disappointed me because I feel whenever you’re given a platform you should stomp the hell out of it until you leave your mark, but yet that was exactly what I wasn’t doing. I think it’s time to really change my initial approach to achieve that and that’s another reason for writing this.

I was talking to someone earlier this year and I remember he gave me some sage advice about incorporating my own experiences, emotions and so forth into my blog and I remember telling him that it wasn’t something I’m keen about doing because to be honest, at the time the whole candid divulging thing was just not something I did publicly, but he was right and I knew it. I don’t know if that led to me slowly unveiling because somewhere down the line I went and wrote that Dear Mom post and I swore that I wouldn’t post anything as personal as that again, but here I am about to take this to another level and it feels weird but I think somehow it’s needed.

Looking back I feel like maybe I should have examine the actions of other bloggers - really assess their approach to their blogs before launching mine - especially since the pieces written in my spare time is so different from blogging materials. To be honest, I didn’t do my research because I’ve always felt so strongly about running my own lane and just letting the pieces fall where they may, but the thought of longevity pertaining to my writing in general didn’t even occur to me until now. I feel like whenever you pursue anything in life you take these routes you think you’re aware of and will be content with and without noticing you find out you have to take a step back and really dwell on how best to approach things in a manner that is more you and will guarantee personal fulfillment. Honestly speaking, I feel like I’ve found my standpoint now – I’m ready to really feed you folks what you subconsciously desire – the truth, at least my truth I should say.

My main reason for telling you all this is because I’m planning on really blessing this blog by sharing my knowledge about various things and I’ll do so by sharing messages I’ve learned from events that have occurred or yet to occur and I might finally share a few stuff from my personal collection (we never know). I’ll still be posting my philosophical pieces (as I like to call them), but I feel as though they’re not brutally attacking the topics I’m trying to address head on and that’s my fault because originally I chose to dilute them before serving it to you folks; my aim right now is to make them more down to earth and entertaining but at the same time really blunt yet heartfelt as well. Hopefully, I’ll post a lot more poems (I’m really enjoying those) and you’ll definitely be getting a few more rap-etry because personally I want to see what I can bring to the table, especially since I’ve got so much monthly themes in mind. I will tell you this though, starting today I will make sure that this blog undergoes some profound changes and by doing so, hopefully I’ll open a few minds when thinking about various issues because BRINGING A POSITIVE CHANGE is the overall goal folks.

Before we end this, I want to say that instead of jumping straight into my first post earlier this year, I should have took the time to introduce myself – My name is AKIL and  this blog folks is called Life’s lessons - I hope you enjoy it – READ AWAY!