Hello and welcome to my blog!
It is very nice to meet you all!
To shortly introduce myself: I am Lena 
A (not-so) humble newly born blogger, enjoying the hike
I also love thinking.
I am completely new to blogging. As my username indicates, this blog will probably end up being a dump of my thoughts on random topics with intermix of posts on my personal experiences and daily life.
So, without further ado, let me start sharing my chaotic opinions and thoughts.
I often thought that I should try to maintain a blog. After all, putting your thoughts on the paper, disk drive, flash memory, stone, papyrus, napkin, street wall (attention: may be considered illegal by local authorities) or whichever external storage you may think of ... in other words, writing gives these thoughts a clear shape and a life of their own.
Sharing your experiences with your circles and a bunch of strangers is also somewhat cool. You get a chance to hear different opinions and see the things from a different perspective. I love a constructive criticism (just joking, I hate it, I am always right and how dare you?!!)
However, I hesitated for a long time to start (I forgot to mention in my introduction: I am an excellent procrastinator) . But I have my excuses (naturally). The things which have always stopped me from blogging:
- I know that when I write I will try to present myself in a favorable way or, to be more exact, in a way I want my potential readers to see me. I think it is a human nature to do this. No matter how honest I try to be, I will probably end up bending up the facts, the truth, my real thoughts. I like to show off.
On the other hand, I think very few of us have a clear understanding of what their real thoughts and opinions are. So, I let it be my excuse as well. - I am not a native English speaker, but I want to write in English. My native languages are Belarusian and Russian. You will probably notice this because of my grammar mistakes, missing and redundant articles (I genuinely hate them, articles, "the" articles, what's the point? sigh), over-complicated and long sentences (like this one), messed-up punctuation and a lot of brackets (I love them! (I can even put brackets inside brackets (if there are Lisp developers reading this: cheers!))) .
Being sort of "grammar Nazi" when it comes to my native languages, I feel somewhat guilty and hypocritical, since I know: there are mistakes and typos and all the other terrible things in my writing. A known fact: whenever I write one innocent kitten dies in this world :(
So... why English, then? Well.. I consider myself a person of a world, not of a specific nation (wow, this sounds so pretentious… but I like to think it is true). With English I can reach people from different countries. I am surrounded by people of the world every day and I want to speak to them.
- I do not particularly like my writing when I read it.
I tend to overuse some words (mostly "I", "me", "mine", "my", because I love myself). I cannot communicate some of my thoughts well and simple enough. I know what a good writing is. I cannot stop comparing myself to the amazing authors I read. I edit, and edit and it is a never ending story. So every time before I gave up. Not this time, though
On a side note: bullet points are my favorites.
I read a lot. I listen to audio books a lot. As your fellow Internet user, I am consuming enormous amount of content every day.
But one day after reading Ray Bradbury's "Zen and the art of writing" I thought: it is probably time to stop being just a consumer. I felt a need to try writing.
I could say I want to contribute my share. But, more honestly speaking, I want to try blogging because of my egoistic nature. It looks like a lot of fun.
As I progress with this post, I can already feel that writing is also time consuming, not so easy and somewhat frustrating (I have rewritten every sentence at least twice, damn it!). But somehow it feels rewarding.
Let the challenge begin (evil laughter)!
Hope we enjoy it together.
Cheers!
P.S. I hope that kitten is not sacrificed for nothing (or better not sacrificed at all).