Showing posts with label why a blog?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label why a blog?. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Revisiting a Question to Myself

It's been a Long while since I last posted on this blog.
My lack of blogging doesn't mean I have stopped actively reflecting (during fieldwork placement, in life and about myself) to improve my OT lens. I've found that I've actually written a few unfinished posts throughout my placement and I just never got around to finishing my thoughts and posting them. I hope that I will find the time to do that later this weekend.

For now, I'd like to revisit the question that I had asked myself when I initially started this blog and add on other new ideas I have for the purposes of this virtual outlet of mine:
Why a Blog?
A place to think... That's what this blog should be for me.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

So. Why am I starting this blog? Why now?

While procrastinating from studying and looking for light reading, I've come upon some blogs that have made me look again and bookmark them. The concept of keeping a blog, a sort of online reflection journal, has always intrigued me but I've always been a person who has to take a while to decide and a bit slow to warm up to new things. I guess you can say that some of this "light reading" has played a part in motivating and inspiring me to finally start a blog for myself!

I'm currently enjoying the first year of my Masters in Occupational Therapy (MScOT) program and I find myself doing a lot of reflecting. It's partly because some of our courses require a lot of reflection, and also because self-reflection is something I have found myself doing naturally -throughout my life since highschool. Now that I'm just over 3 months into my program, there have been quite a few opportunities and experiences (both in OT and life in general) for me to reflect on. I'd like to use this blog as a way of getting these thoughts and feelings down and to act as a sort of journal to look back on when I graduate to see how much I will have grown (hopefully!). =)

Given my busy school schedule and my general slow-ness in getting my thoughts out in an articulate manner, I don't know how committed I will be to posting... Ah! There I go, setting myself up for failure eh? But I will try. I mean it. I WILL Try my very best! I want to be able to see how my way of thinking will be changed by this OT program and my life experiences along the way.

Reflections. Random musings. Photos. Metaphors of life... Here we go!