- Anais Nin
In the three years I’ve been blogging and the three journals I’ve kept – one outgrown, one deleted, one still a constant in my life – I’ve remained anonymous or, at the very least, closeted from a wider readership within one of the more insular blogging communities.
It was a combination of wanting to write freely without the self-censorship that access by familiar people brings, and of not wanting to leave myself vulnerable by revealing too much on the Internet. In a sense, I sought comfort in anonymity, meting out as much or as little of myself as I wanted to the very strangers from whom I guarded myself.
But over the past few weeks I realized how I’ve limited my own sphere by remaining tied to this one community. I’ve stumbled upon beautiful blogs, intelligent, well-written blogs, honest blogs, blogs I may have never even come across had I not followed the yellow link road outside of my comfort zone.
It’s why I decided that it was time for me to join the collective, to not be afraid of airing not only my writing but also myself to the world.
It has begun.
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