Blog Revamped!

Well, well, well. Fancy having you here! It has been a while my friend, so please come in, make yourself at home, I will go make us some hot chocolate, and tell you all that needs to be said!

My effort to create an expression of my passions in a blog called "Interest of the Month", ended up become what the name suggested, an interest for the month. Hyper-focus is something I struggle with, and different interests will grab my attention and energy, only to be put aside with the rest of my ideas, collecting dust and being forgotten.

Well it was hard, and I believe it was because I specialised what this blog was meant to do, focusing on one interest at a time, and this burnt me out. I over committed, especially in my series about Yu-Gi-Oh! At that point, I had moved on from that interest onto another thing, but was planning on writing a total of 10 different posts. Gee Whiz that was a very hopeful idea.

So I stopped blogging, I lost interest and then it became what all those ideas were, just caught in the moment.

However, I have been feeling pretty under-utilised, in the sense that I have all these ambitions and dreams, but no drive to do so. I do believe it is because I don't actually have a way to put all my ideas into an easily digestible system, and instead let them run rampart in my brain, eventually causing me to feel exhausted and wanting to binge Netflix and eat chocolate.

So that got me thinking. Right now, most of my time is spent with my partner and work, but other than that, it's usually on the computer playing games. My first thought was just streaming whenever I play a game, that way the time I spend isn't as wasted as it would be. However, as soon as the wheels hit the ground, I found a large snag on the way. I'm not this overtly loud, incredibly child-like, entertaining person, but rather loud in my own, some what quiet way. I'm not an introvert but an extrovert, based on my innate to want to do things with people, even play games, but I don't fit in that stereotypical extroverted style of being the life of the party. I had to reassess my intentions, my desire, my motivation to even want to flick the camera on, get it rolling and putting myself out there. It was during this time, and also just reminiscing about my attempt to blog that it struck me. I am loud in my own way, I like doing things my own way. I don't need to stream for others, but for myself. I like doing things with people, making people enjoy the games they play and feel like, hey I can do this. I decided to create a stream where you feel like a community. I play a game, switch it on, but its not for you to watch epic plays, or be dazzled by high tier level analytics. I mean if those do occur then great! But the main point of it is a place for people to come, watch, chill, and feel like they aren't alone and are surrounded with people on a common interest, being able to be themselves and not feel judged. Will it be a multi-million dollar stream like the famous people have? Absolutely not, but that's not the reason for its inception. Over time, it will grow into this activity people can tune in to get away from stress, to relax and interact with people who are feeling similarly.

I do ramble too much, but streaming isn't the point of this blog either. Well the ramblings are, and that is what "The Mind of George" will be about. It becomes a place for me to place all my thoughts, feelings, ideas and failings into an organised platform, that again is meant to help me, but can benefit others if they will it so. The paragraph before is but a snippet of my inner workings, and more posts will follow that have a similar trend. Will it be ambitious and have a strict release date? Probably not. For now it will be based on my thoughts, feelings, and spare time that dictate how often they are released. It doesn't stress or burden me out, and leaves me room to write more freely. Heck another point is for pure, unaltered honesty. This post itself, to declare my intention of revamping an interest blog into a personal one, has taken me over a week to complete.

So welcome again, to what will be a venture into a personal world of my own creative thoughts. Welcome to The Mind of George!

Until next time.

~ George Wakim