To be perfectly honest with you, I’m a bit unsure about what exactly I’ll do with this blog. I guess I just want to try out what one can do with this format. And I found some truly amazing blogs in the recent past, so I said to myself: “Why don’t you just give it a try?” So that’s what I’ll do.

There is also one additional thing that played into my decision to start this blog, namely the fact that I desperately need some writing practice. I finished gymnasium (which is a kind of grammar school which one has to complete before starting at a university here in Switzerland → Wikipedia) mid 2022 and underwent my military service (which is compulsory here in Switzerland) directly after. I truly didn’t enjoy myself during my 500 days of service and while I definitely learnt a lot during this time I also lost a great deal of academic and social skills I had acquired throughout my life. One of those skills I lost is the ability to bring my thoughts and feelings down on a page in a manner that satisfies me. Before I felt I could sit and jot down the content of every last corner of my mind in a linguistically pleasing and engaging way, all in the space of a few minutes, but now I seem to pause before every other sentence, trying to find the right words and formulations to express what I think and feel, words which before always seemed to be right in the palm of my hand. The same is true for conversation, even when talking to my closest friends. But that is yet another matter.

So, yeah … I really need to practice writing again. I think it might even aid me in finding some lost pieces of pre-military-me that I’d like to have back. I feel like even those few lines above already did some good, even if it took me longer to write them as I’d care to admit.

I think I’ll close with another thing I have given some thought to while building this site here. It is the question of whether anyone will ever even read this. But, frankly, I think I don’t care too much. I’m doing this more for myself than for anyone else. But please, dear reader, if you like what you are reading, do go on. Read my other posts (if there are any by now), and explore my site and the ones I linked on my /links page. I truly don’t expect the content of this site to be valuable to anyone but me, but if it is, I’ll be glad nonetheless. For if there is one thing I can always stand behind, it is bringing a little bit of joy to someone.