Becoming A Free Spirit

 Can you believe it's already half way through summer and I still haven't swam in a lake yet?? With it being well into July, I figured that it was time to start going through my 2023 goals list and see what I've completed and what is still yet to be done. For those of you who haven't found that page yet, Here was the list I created back when I started this blog in March: Stand outside of a sunroof ✅ Swim in a lake Ice skate Go to the drive-in Run through a field (preferably in a flowy dress)✅ Go camping with no plan -> forestry campsite Spontaneous trip  Runaway (just disappear for a few days SAFELY WITH MY BF AND PARENTS KNOWING OR WITH ME) Watch the sunset at local paintball field Hike Joffre Lakes Have a picnic ✅ Take a pottery class Take a horse-riding lesson Chase waterfalls Swim in the ocean ✅ Sleep under the stars Get my first tattoo Have a baking date with BF Scream at the top of my lungs✅ Study at the Vancouver Library Plan to move out within 2023/24 Have a

 It's nice to have people support you, there's no doubt about that. But there comes a time when you have to stop begging other people to support you. That is something I am still learning. Take this blog. When I started it I was SO excited. I wanted to share it with everyone, all of my friends and people I know. I told everyone about it. I even emailed my close friends a "newsletter" to tell them when I posted. I talked about it on my social media, I sent my friends the link. And yet only one of my friends even bothered to read it upon launch. ouch. Something I had worked so hard on and clearly was so excited about just went unnoticed or ignored by the people who mean the most to me.  It really sucked. But maybe they were busy. Maybe they didn't see the email. I tried again the next time I posted. I tried again and again. After about the third time, a few of them at least viewed the blog, maybe reading one article. It wasn't at all the amount of support I was

 Like many tween and teens back in the 2010s, I created videos to post to YouTube in the hopes of blowing up and going viral. Actually, I’m not even sure if those were my intentions when I first started.  My very first video was uploaded in 2012 to my first of many YouTube channels. It was a Littlest Pet Shop ice skating video that I filmed while staying at a lake house in the winter. The video had no real purpose other than I was having fun filming a video on my new iPod touch. I was watching a lot of LPS YouTube at the time which inspired me to play with and record my own LPS. I think the video is still public somewhere on the internet, but only TRUE fans will ever be able to find it… And thus, my YouTube career began. One that’s still ongoing today, 11 years later. Now, to be clear, I was never “internet famous,” I think the most subscribers I ever had in any channel was 1400. But for a while there, I had a big community. I had recurring subscribers who would watch and comment on ev