Simone Reddington

Hello.

It’s been over a year since I last wrote on this blog and its a very strange time to be alive in 2020 isn’t it? In the last 12 months, my own life has been a bit manic with constant changes in my work and personal life that has made me forget about my own writing and blogging. I was too caught up with the other goals and plans to produce ideas for blog posts and I also lost a lot of confidence in myself. There were so many other people my age on the internet who seemed a lot more interesting than me who were writing and creating amazing content. I didn’t believe that anybody would be interested in anything I wrote, and I certainly didn’t want people I knew reading my work and laughing at it.

However as the whole world is currently taking a step back from our busy lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been spending the majority of the last month in the house with nothing to do. There is nothing I can plan, and nothing I can really do except look at my phone, watch Netflix and go for walks to clear my head. The last time that I had this much free time, without work, studying or socialising with friends was the summer in 2015. I had just finished my A-levels and didn’t turn 18 until the very end of August so, as you can imagine, there wasn’t a lot for me to do. The one thing I can remember doing (other than watching the entirety of my brother’s Friends box-set) was starting my first blog. It was hardly cutting edge journalism but I did enjoy it and got a few compliments from my friends after sharing the link on my Instagram bio. I stopped when I started university and removed it from my social media as I was very nervous about fitting in with the cool girls in my first year at uni, but four years later I really wish I kept going.

So that is why I’m going to have another attempt at blogging while I’m in quarantine. I’m not promising that I’ll be publishing new posts as regularly as BBC News, or claiming to be the coronavirus equivalent of Carrie Bradshaw. I’m simply going to share my experiences of life as a 22 year old young woman and write about my own views because I enjoy writing and Iife’s too short to not do what you enjoy. And you know what? We’re in the middle of a global pandemic and the last thing I’m bothered about is whether Becky from up the street thinks it’s shit or not.

Stay safe xx