...and thus I join the blogging masses.

It took me a while to get to this.

I am sat here, in my bedroom, looking out the window at the sunlight. Its a nice day, good for walking, but as usual I am indoors doing absolutely nothing on my computer.

I was out there, cutting the hedge down. The local kids were giving me grief again, but they soon run when you chase after them with an electric hedge trimmer. I cut down, tidied up and relaxed. So now I am here, in my bedroom, drinking coke and listening to Beethoven, while writing this blog.

I'm also, at the same time, logged into an MMORPG by the name of EVE Online, a long running and constantly updating game within which I have played for many years with little break.

You see, I am a videogamer. I have within five feet of me enough hardware and software from so many "generations" of consoles that I have literally travelled back in time to before my birth in the search for a good gameplay experience. But this is not why I post this.

I have a love for writing that I never really expressed in the same way as my love for Music or the visual media of Film and Videogames. Sure, I have tried to write a book a couple of times but I could never really articulate myself over such a long period. As such, I turn to Journalism.

I am not as well educated as people first assume when they meet me or read my words. The education I do have is geared more towards the practical side of Film production rather than the theoretical side, and I have very little to no qualifications in the English language or writing as an art form.

Nor am I as old as people first assume when they meet me or read my words, for while you may assume I am in my late twenties or even my early thirties (as some have suggested), I am only twenty years old, and not that long by it either.

As it stands, I am unemployed, and as such the sands of time are giving me a break. I have enough to spare that if I could motivate myself I could write an entire novel in a week. However, I look at such a  project and while I have had a story idea in my mind since I was nine years old, I could not and will not for a while be able to manage such an undertaking.

So, here I am, becoming one of literally millions and millions of people who are charting, have charted, or will start to chart their life to the rest of the millions and millions of people who have nothing better to do than to read them.

However, I want to. I want to get more of my work out there so people will look at me as a serious writer. I want to get my views and experiences out there so people will see me as more than just some empty shell in today's society.

I want to be allowed to be myself, and thus I join the blogging masses.

- Jon Shire