roast marshmallows on dem flames. ️‍🔥

So I've been considering publishing this blog for YEARS now, and I srsly waffled around about it so much I could have opened a CHAIN of waffle houses. 😑

Recently, I had a month of completely re-ordering my priorities, so I was like, O! I'll open my blog now, full of all the article ideas I've been putting aside! Yay! I will have *tons* of great content, super quick!

Well.

After looking for hours I finally found my old files and DAMN. I could tell right away that all those "amazing" half-written blog articles I thought I had?? They were all outdated af. Ideas I don't agree with anymore, old topics I don't want to engage in, and some just...horrible writing. 😰 I am so not publishing Teen Sky's Emo Rants. So then I had...nothing. And I had a self-deadline coming up quick! 😭😭😭😭😭

I was srsly so disappointed in myself, and feeling all this pressure to get it launched so I could move on to other projects...I felt awful. 😞

And then I had a tiny epiphany:

WHO THE FUCK SAID I had to launch with a certain amount of articles?! And why is losing all that content a BAD thing??? It means my thoughts, ideas and opinions have evolved, and I've grown as a person!

Then I was all like: BURN IT DOWN!!!️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥️‍🔥

Burn all of my ridiculous expectations, like things have to be up to this perfect standard. Like I have to open my blog with a certain number of posts for it to be "good enough"!

And burn all that old shit too-all those old article ideas and ranting. I've grown past that, and I can let it go. Let's start FRESH!

So. Burn I did. And now mah blog is open--with some updated old stuff, and some new stuff! And I kept those metaphorical matches in case I start killing the FUN in any of my other projects.

High standards are great. But when they replace fun and compassion in a situation, something is *way* off.

This is what works for me. #imaketherules

It might not be what's best for you. #makeyourownrules #thinkforyourself