Why I am me

Like so many others before me, I appear to have fallen prey to the black hole that in popular culture is known as blogging. This came to pass because three long weeks ago I started a journal. This journal of mine contains all my darkest and most horrible secrets, and trust me, there are many of them. Within two weeks I had already filled up over a tenth of the back of my over-sized college notebook. Most of the book is bleak and depressing and while it is a representation of me and who I used to be, at the same time it isn't. It doesn't show the good times, the happy times. There is no balance. And that is why I have started this blog. I feel there needs to be a balance.

My blog is titled "I Am Me: When being someone else becomes too much". This is because there have been many things in my life that could fall under the category of 'the kind of thing that happens to someone else'. A lot of that is what my journal is all about. I am sick of labeling myself as someone else. I am sick of being someone else. I am me. My name is Louise Anne McConnell. This blog contains thoughts and ideas that I don't share with people. It is full of mirth, sadness, and even possibly anger. I will try to write in it every day, but even the most experienced bloggers know that doing so is highly unlikely. Maybe you will laugh with me, maybe you will cry with me, maybe this will be the only post you ever read, whatever the case, I thank you for taking time out of your schedule and reading what I have to say.

Louise Anne McConnell