It's Been a While - The Minty Pink

I’m back! Well, I’m trying to be. It’s been over three months since I’ve written a blog post. It’s hard, because I care so much about the blog from a personal stand point, but lately it’s felt too challenging to write about things like clothes or brands. It was feeling trivial and fake, not what I was really feeling. For the last two or three years, I’ve written at least four blog posts a month, averaging at about one a week. If I was getting close to my personal deadline, I’d drop everything to get a post done, photos and all. So, to drop the blog completely felt like a decision I didn’t actually make intentionally, it just happened because I couldn’t possibly do it. I couldn’t write about anything happy – and I wasn’t up for writing about the sad, either.

I won’t get into it on here, but the last few months have been a fog of trying to find some normalcy while also continuing to feel a very real deep sadness. I’m doing what I need to do each day, I’m doing my job to the very best of my ability, but at the end of the day – it’s felt like all I can do right now. It can be exhausting to sustain, at the moment. Essentially: Blogging regularly the last few months was not an option. I could not do it.

However, I’m now going to make an active effort to try to write about the good things here because I’ve always felt it’s been the perfect way to look back on all my favorite moments. Anyone close to me knows I have countless journals filled – some entirely cringy to look back on – from the time I was in elementary school. I’ve been a journal-er, a documenter, most of my life. The blog became a new way to do it, and it’s been lovely to be able to look back on things in a digital way. I think I need some of those happy memories documented as they come in. I want to look at this platform as a way of feeling hopeful for what’s to come.

Below are the photos from the last three months where I’ve felt the most hopeful. My proof of happy times. These will be my focus going forward: