About Me

November 4th, 2024

Hello, world!

In my life experience, blogs have been something primarily for millennial aged people and above. I myself have never taken the liberty of reading a blog outside of various cooking and baking websites (where my true intention was to simply get the recipe). In fact, at a point in my life, I deemed blogs as a stupid endeavor that had no contribution to the wider world. Yet here I am, writing to you in the medium that I have so much disrespected. How did we come here? 

I am a basic man. For much of my childhood, I felt fairly isolated from my friends, being one of few to live in the suburbs rather than a neighborhood in the city. With my isolation I did not expand much- or at least, I never accessed the potential that I believed I had. My life has not consisted of much, at least relative to my counterparts. I spent much of my childhood at home, with my family. My brother and I often watched sitcoms together or played various video games. I had one true love as a kid, that being baseball; there was a point in time where I was one of the better baseball players in the Madison area, though in retrospect, that means practically nothing. Madison is not a town of baseball players, nor football or basketball players, in fact, we excel in swimming, track and field, and ultimate frisbee. However, baseball was what I knew, it’s what I was good at. Outside of that however, I never truly took the time to develop genuine skills that I care about. I feel my life (so far) can be best summarized as a wide, shallow pond. There’s various things I know about and care about, but my knowledge and skill relative to those things is quite bare.

What I lacked in various skills and knowhow, I feel I made up for in relating to people. This skill certainly was not with me since birth. I grew up with a fair amount of social anxiety which prevented me from truly delving into many relationships that I still genuinely care about to this day. However, by pushing myself to connect with people, I became more comfortable in those social situations. My connection to people helped me develop a love for politics– or, more accurately, a love for trying to find a common solution, one that’s suitable for all. That love carried me into college, where I chose to get a bachelors in political science. In college, as is for many, my world became much larger. There seemed to be so many possibilities right in front of me, so many things I believed I could do. Though I didn’t pick up on any of my aspirations, rather, I fell more in line with what I had already known. My conversations with peers became deeper and more thoughtful. I started to yearn for understanding people, how they work, and how I could help them. College made me the man writing to you today. 

Though I had a degree and a newfound motivation to understand, my hobbies were still lacking. Herein lies my wanting to start a blog. I love to converse about the larger issues in life, issues that span generations, not a mere week. I love the idea of thinking I have all the answers (even though no one can). I love to advocate for the things I care about, things that can bring about a real difference in people’s lives, improve them for the better. This blog will be a culmination of the things I love to do, it will be messy and incoherent. One day I’ll be talking about what’s wrong with policing, the next, my stance on voting rights, and another, maybe I’ll show you some of the bread I made, but it will be me. I hope that from this blog, I learn more about myself and also the people around me. I hope to see problems for what they are, not how they’re construed.I hope to become a bit closer to the man I aspire to be, day by day, piece by piece, post by post.