1 year since Arristella was launched!!!

So yesterday, July 24 2020 marked 1 year since Arristella was launched!!!

I know, I know this post is a bit late. The best thing should have been to do this on its actual launch day, but I didn’t. I wasn’t home, I didn’t know I would be out the whole day and night, didn’t have my laptop, and honestly wanted to enjoy my time. Yes I could have scheduled it in advance but I don’t plan what I post. And I could have done it on my phone, but I’m not going to put out something that I’m not proud of. So I guess its better late than never.

If you would have asked me whether this blog would still be a thing a year ago, I would say it was too much work or that I gave up. But I didn’t. A few months into having this blog, I stopped posting for a while because I didn’t know how to balance school, volunteering and this blog. At the beginning of this year, I learned how to do it all and started posting a bit more.

One of the biggest things that you may not realize is that I started becoming more real. I’m not here giving you advice. Instead, I am trying to be relatable. I am sharing what I go through and sometimes how I resolve it, and the actions. I am sharing my thoughts and feelings to those who may want to read, whether that is about anxiety, depression, traveling, university, find a job, dating. We all have our problems and we all go through things, but we never talk about it. Since I love to learn about who people are rather than make assumptions, its only fair for me to try to start a conversation.

Another thing you may not know is that I no longer about care about the analytics of this blog. When I first started I was obsessed with the views, likes and follower count. Now, I couldn’t a fuck. Some posts do well, some do not. And that’s okay. I’m not saying that its a bad thing to care about the analytics, I am just saying that I do not.

I also used to plan and schedule my posts to go up 3 times a week, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I stopped doing that became too much too handle and I didn’t care about what I wrote anymore. Now I post whenever I want, so sometimes there are 5 posts a week and none the next week. And because always about whats on my mind, its going to be random. I’m not going to force myself to write something that I am not proud of, so expect more rants and rambles.

Yes, this blog has changed a lot and probably will moving forward. And that’s okay because it is a part of growth. I don’t regret this blog. I love the wordpress community and interacting with people who comment and reading others blog posts. You never know that someone might be living close-ish to you or going through something similar. I was so excited to get my first comment and honestly I still do whenever I get one. When I got my first blog award nomination from blondeyonamission, I was shocked but also happy that someone considered me for it. And I know that I still haven’t done it, its just that I never plan anything. I just admitted that. Maybe I might have to this time.