No More Overthinking—I’m Finally Writing Without a Niche

 Hi, I'm Janie 

I'm a 25 year old self-employed fashion designer with an itch for entrepreneurship. Through the years I've had an interesting journey to where I am now in life, but at some point I felt like I've lost parts of myself that I really miss. Not to be dramatic or anything, but I'm very familiar with The existential crisis. The amount of things that bother me to the point of "I don't feel like myself because xyz" is mildly whack in my opinion. (I would say it's nonsensical, but my boyfriend has been reminding me a lot recently that if I tell myself that my thoughts and ideas are nonsense, then I'll truly start to think that I don't have any intelligent thoughts). Nonetheless, in my 25 years on earth, I've gone through many interesting phases in life and "re-invented" myself, and tried to change my reality and plenty of other things, yet there's still a big part of me that feels like I'm not living according to my true self. And one of my most valued life ideologies is living intentionally. But sometimes it's hard to stick to that, so I'm writing this blog to document this process of living like my true self. I'm hoping to make some friends along the way that relate to my way of thinking. And truthfully, I've always enjoyed writing, so I believe the fact that this documentation of my journey is in written form is the first step to living more authentically. In school, writing essays were probably one of my favourite things to do. It was usually fiction, but still, I miss that. To this day I sometimes still find myself making up narratives for all sorts of things. And one of the most enjoyable seasons of my life was when I was writing my Honours dissertation. I loved the fact that I was allowed to read for hours a day and formulate my own thoughts and theories from that. I've often thought about continuing my research and potentially doing a Masters degree and eventually a PhD and possibly writing books. But none of that's decided yet. For now all I want to do is practice my skill of writing. 

Many times before I've attempted to start a blog but gave up pretty quickly because I always got stuck on what to write about. I'd think I'd decided what I wanted to write about, and then 5 posts later I wanted to write on a specific topic of something entirely different and then I'd feel the need to rebrand the whole blog. So this time round I'm not deciding on a topic or niche. I'm just going to write about what I feel like writing and see where it takes me. 

Peace out for now 

Janie :)