The Introduction

     Hello blog universe.  This is I--Andra.  I like to believe that there is a greater purpose to my online presence, and yet I find that perhaps I am just a typical Millennial trying to make sense of a world over-saturated with information (although, again, I really do hope that it might be much more than that).  I've been thinking about starting a blog for several months.  The reason?  I have thoughts and ideas, many of them - actually, too many of them and I need an outlet so that I can pour out my metaphysical musings and existential angst.  I've often found myself mentally organizing my thoughts into  hypothetical "blog-like"compositions; which is useful in terms of articulation, but the problem is that I tend to forget many of the thoughts and ideas that I've worked so hard to articulate.  Thus, I figure, starting a blog would offer offer me a space in which to materialize at least some of the little inklings that pester my sanity every now and then.  I'm still a little iffy about using the whole "blog" format because I do worry about things like "intellectual property" and having online footprints come back years down the road to bite me in the butt.  True, they are things to consider--but I've concluded that the pros outweigh the cons at this point.  I need an audience-if not a real one, then an implied one (that is why the imaginary blog that I hosted on my desktop didn't work out).  It doesn't matter if no one ever reads my blog, but as long as I feel as though I'm writing for someone somewhere across the vast expanses of the cyber-universe, then I will feel (hopefully) that I must be accountable and will faithfully (even half-assedly would suffice) write blogs.  The truth is, I need to write.  Surprise!  I am a writer- or at least I'd like to think that I am.  My problem?  Not writer's block, it's continuity.  I start things and never finish them and I also have ideas that I never explore.  Of course a large part of my problem is that I never have enough time to sit down, think, and put all of my thoughts onto paper (or the computer screen, whatever).  So, I need to exercise my writerly muscles--hence, this blog.  But I also feel like this blog might be a good tool for me to articulate and form new ideas (hence the title).  I'd like to think that as a twenty-something year old person, I still have a lot to learn, and yet I still have learned quite a bit even until now.  So maybe I'm onto something and what I have to say is actually wisdom-not-yet-developed--of course, there is also the other possibility that I am insane, hopelessly idealistic, and burnt out.  I haven't figured it out, but feel free to join along with me in finding out.