Starting Fresh

What is FirstPersonPolitik?

FirstPersonPolitik is a small experiment by me. It is a small blog that will hopefully be able to contain the many thoughts, feelings, and ideas that I deem worthy enough to write down somewhere.

But why all of a sudden?

I've always felt like my online life was very one-sided; continuously consuming and taking in information, while not really giving anything back or making my mark. This is hopefully an attempt to balance the ratio.

But you suck at writing or expressing yourself.

Thank you for your honest criticism. Fuck you.

So you're probably doing this to learn how to better express yourself?

That's correct. 

And anybody can read this?

At first, no. While I do admire honesty and transparency, not everybody needs to know about my thoughts. In addition to being an outlet for expressing myself, I also want to use this to organize and track my real, as well as my digital life. The key idea here is having a digital presence.

What kind of content should I expect?

At first, I plan on submitting short musings about recent thoughts I've had, as well as a link or two to the pictures I upload to Flickr, along with a short description. 

Up until now, I've always felt like the things that fly around inside my head haven't had much significance to anybody on the outside - nobody's ever asked me so why should it interest them? The more I get to know myself and the people around me, the more I've realized that what I have to say or think does really interest the people around me, or at least the people that are willing to be that open with me. 

Tell me about yourself.

This is superfluous. Only people that know me personally will have access to this at first, so anything I say here won't be anything new to anybody. 

Whatever.

If you are among the few that take the time to read this, don't hesitate to tell me why something sucks or is actually good. I can take it, so don't worry about hurting my feelings or anything like that. 

Lastly, thank you for taking the time to read this. I really do appreciate it.