Call it ordinary or anything

I've followed big bloggers like Chiara Ferragni (https://www.theblondesalad.com/en/, fashion influencer), signed up and read newsletters like Foodhack (https://www.foodhack.global/ food industry, where start-ups match with investors), listened to Call her daddy or Daddy issues (lifestyle podcasts) and always admired that these people had the courage to put themselves out there at some point and started something that grew into a big thing. How they became voices that are heard in a world that tends to be very noisy. I felt like I'd love to have a voice, but what would it be about? What kind of grand concept would I follow that might end up big?

The more I've read on innovation, talked to "experts", tried to figure out how to be better, to improve to maybe have the voice and knowledge for my grand concept someday, I realized: nothing ever started big. Every good idea started somewhere, as a prototype, unpolished and ordinary. So-called "experts" are considered as such, if everybody around them agrees that they are an expert. Naturally these people usually have credit in a certain field, years of experience and have made a name for themselves. Are they perfect, allknowing and infalliable? Absolutely not. They remain humans and make things up as they go along, just like you and me.

It hit me: I don't need to perfect an idea and regret never having tried a blog. So this is it. A personal blog that follows a "brand" I've had for a while - anythingf.

I used to get weird looks, why this was my socialmedia handle. Because I post "anything" from my life - "f". Someone once told me if I wrote a book, the chapters would probably not be in their numerical order. That I might start with chapter 11, move on to chapter 27 and circle back to chapter 5. At first I was taken aback, but that's me. It captures my thought process and my personality. I tend to get very excited about all sorts of things and share the resulting reflections with anybody who comes my way. Some people don't get it, they smile awkwardly or laugh. But I always feel like they leave in a better mood - they might categorize my enthousiasm as entertaining and let's be honest: isn't it contagious when a person is enthousiastic about a topic? That pure, raw and warm energy that enthousiastic people exude - Many others live off this energy. I know I do.

"But what might other people think?" - if we all overthought our posts and stories online, the internet and especially social media would be a very quiet and boring space. Some people post their breakfast. Do I really care? Well, I did look at the picture and it may have inspired me to make cinnamon roles or made me smile because I recognized the café.

"Many people have already written about this." - my sister's response: "Sure, but they didn't have your take on the topic."

So here is my outlet, an ordinary blog about anythingf.

xoxo, your big sis