Toddlerhood: Day 1
Sunday, July 14, 2013 @ 5:12 PM | 0 comment(s)

My blog is officially 4.

I can’t believe how my days with Diaries of Woes and Chaos flew by so fast. I remember, back in 2009, I made this account just to have a blog, with no definite, life-changing reasons. I wanted to blog so I made one. But as it grew older and I learned that I was blogging not only for the sake of blogging but for expressing my opinions and practicing my grammar, I realized that, hey, DOWAC isn’t just a blog anymore; DOWAC is my friend and the child I continually look after, feed, bathe and send to school. I am a mother of this blog; I am a mother of my many online accounts (I don’t practice family planning in this area). I started my own family, without a father figure, at the age of 16 (no wonder I look this disheveled).

Putting up a blog is one of the best decisions I’ve made (which is saying something). When I don’t have a friend at the instant moment and nobody wants to listen to what I have to say about certain issues (i.e. The RH Law, Great Crush, Awesome Books of All Time, Dave Franco, Great Crush), I can always count on this baby right here. Never did it disappoint me, even though I’ve disappointed it a couple of times already. I’ve almost abandoned it when I was so busy with everything and didn’t have enough time to shave or vacuum my booger, but still, DOWAC was there, it’s text area welcoming me with a clean, open space.

Blogs are like books in a way. 1) They don’t pack off their bags and run away when you somehow didn’t notice them or give them enough attention; they just wait and wait and wait until you wake up and realize that they’re still there, loving and yearning for you from a distance. 2) Blogs and books are the gifts that keep on giving. They’re not just there to execute their assigned tasks; after satiating your immediate needs, they still have something in them that would fill you up and answer the need you didn’t know you had. Books not only entertain us but they also improve our imagination that would make us cry like legit fangirls. It’s the same with blogs: they not only serve as a medium to express our thoughts online but they also plant something in us that would make us write more that would somehow tug people’s heartstrings. They make us better persons. And anything or anyone that makes us better is worth keeping.


To my darling, never-leaving, forever reliable friend, DOWAC: you will always be my first born. Even though I’ve discovered other websites that divide my attention for you, always remember that all of you are my children – my love for you and your siblings are equal. Thank you for always being there when I need someone to listen to my ranting. Thank you for accepting my posts when all they said was “I miss Great Crush”. Thank you for finally acknowledging that Great Crush is real. Thank you for being the home of my Two Cents, my Photo Blogs, my Cluttered Minds and my Monthly Nutshells (I don’t know what to do about Teenage Dreams – ugh). Thank you for keeping up with my weirdness. (Thank you for letting me believe that you’re a real person – which I swear you are.)

You were there at both the rise and the fall of my love for Sam Concepcion. You were there on my birthdays and my immortalization. You were there at my stressful moments and my worth-the-confetti successes. I thank you with all my heart and the correct grammar that I know. I will never leave you, DOWAC. We’d be together for five, ten, twenty years more. We’d both be famous together. Ha!

You are most awesome ever. Happy anniversary!

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