My blog has not always existed in the same place or on the same platform, but if it were a human? It’d be old enough to vote; to get married, and drink (in the UK, at least); to get a tattoo, and a credit card; to move out and get an apartment, or go to freaking university, all without parental consent. How wild is that?
My very first ever post was in February 2007—over eighteen years ago!
Or to put it another way, I’ve been sharing parts of my life online for just over half the length of said life.
Most of the old posts have been taken down in the years since, which is honestly for the best, but I still have copies of a lot of them. This site is archived back to 2015, and I have 2010-2014 saved to my laptop.
I once printed out my 2008 and 2009 posts, to keep in hard copy, because I was proud of having written so much (valid) and I considered them to be profound and worth keeping (not so valid). Those printouts no longer exist, and I don’t believe digital versions of those particular posts are stored anywhere either, which is a shame. They may not be profound, or matter to anyone else, but I do wish Past Ellie had kept them to look back on—especially considering how much paper and ink they used! (I’m cringing just thinking about it.)
Regardless, I still think it’s great that I’ve been writing for so long, and I am proud of myself for keeping it up and coming back to it, even if there have been absences of the like discussed in my previous post.
I highly doubt I have any readers still with me from the beginning, but who knows? Feel free to leave me a comment to let me know how long you’ve been following along.