I find it very difficult to ever admit that anything I write is worthy of an audience, so the idea of publishing my thoughts on a page accessible by an entire wireless community is, to put it simply, terrifying. But I have reached a crossroad in my thoughts, and I hope blogging will help.
I have always been vocal about my beliefs and have often been told that I am articulate with my views. However, getting this across on a web page is an entirely different matter. But I am at a point where I cannot keep up with my thoughts and I'm hoping that the process of writing and editing them on a page will help me to come to conclusions that accurately reflect my attitudes in life.
So, herein I lay my mind, heart and soul on the line to you, whoever, wherever you may be. I don't want this page to be viewed as the ramblings of a 22 year old female student, who has had the luck and privilege to have been educated well and to come from a loving family, who makes swooping statements and idealistic points that bear no reflection to real life and that only a small minority of people can relate to.
I want to create a page that makes people stop and think about what is happening to the world around us, be it our immediate, intimate worlds or the wider, troubled societies that have been so vehemently publicised by the media. The London riots were the first acts of social disorder that provoked a strong reaction from myself, watching them from my student house in Cowley, Oxford. The images of the destruction of my beloved home city were more upsetting to me than I ever anticipated, and I want to feel that I am at least doing something to try and come to terms with what has happened to our society for such behaviour to occur.
So essentially, as is true of all bloggers, I am hoping to achieve something through this medium, and I will not deny that it is most likely the only person this process will benefit is myself. But if I get even just one person thinking about or questioning what went wrong, how we can help, or asking for a way to channel all this negative energy into a much more productive movement, then I hope that I can go away fulfilled and clear-minded.
