This blog has been staring at me for a while now, mocking me with its emptiness. I wanted to update it, but like all things that come to a pause, it gets more and more difficult to pick up where you left off when so much time has passed.

I kept waiting and waiting for a killer blog post idea to come to mind. Sometimes inspiration did come and I would start writing drafts on my notebook or on my phone only to delete everything. I worried about criticism. I worried about disappointing readers. I worried about hating what I wrote five or ten years later.

But today I’ve built up the courage to post something. In fact, anything. I had the opportunity of meeting with an alumnus today who shared how much storytelling has been integral in his experience in marketing, more specifically branding. In his blog, he encourages writers to set aside twenty minutes during their daily routines to just write – about anything and everything. Due to the time-crunch, you don’t have time to edit, look up words, or even think! I am typing like wildfire right now, trying to get the word vomit out before I run out of time.

It’s similar to how I have been feeling so far as a senior. I always feel like a timer is ticking down, and I have to chase after my classes, internship, student organizations, and then career prep. There is never enough time to do everything that I want to do. But I’m realizing more and more that the notion of not having time for yourself is very much a part of being an adult. Unless you set aside time to do it, it will never get done.

So that’s what I’ve been working on. I’m trying to learn how to set aside time for activities that make me happy. More so than just unwinding by mindlessly watching Netflix, I’m looking for things that feed my creative spirit. Whether that’s writing or playing the guitar, I’m finding ways to care for myself, which I think is very easy to forget how to do when you’re in college.

I realize now that this post does not really capture the big and little things that happened in the past few months that were so important to me but my twenty minutes is up. Time to hit “publish” and not look back.