"Add a Catchy Title"

Here I am, sitting down to write my first blog post, after having ideas swirl around in my head for weeks about what I can share. Maybe poetry, maybe raw and authentic stories and encounters I've had with people and places on my travels around the country, or I could use this as a platform and safe space to share and process my own experiences without having to water it down for any specific audience. I have plenty to share, but I already ran into a problem. I have to come up with a title for each post! The website builder has this written in the designated title space: "Add a Catchy Title". Because that's what is supposed to draw people in. A catchy title. However, I am a woman of many words and complex ideas, and it feels nearly impossible to come up with a catchy title for this specific post. Instead, I sit here thinking about the flashy exterior our culture wants us to wear in order to be noticed, to draw attention to ourselves, in order to be seen. And I think about the mess that I am on the inside, and it's not flashy, it's not "catchy". It is complicated, it is beautiful, it is ugly, it is good, it is bad; I am a series of contradictions, I am in a never-ending war against myself. I am on a journey, and that means my feet get dirty, I get sweaty and smelly, I get tired and need rest. So welcome to the war inside of myself. Welcome to my journey, Feel free to walk with me as I guide you on my path of life. stepping with curiosity and a desire to learn. And maybe occasionally I'll have a post with a catchy title.

(Also I made this whole thing up as a way to get out of not knowing what my first post should be about. I figured out as I was nearing the end of writing this.)