The Back Story
This blog was originally started through Weebly back in January of 2014. At the time, I created Inspire Those Who Inspire Me to be a positive light and share things I had learned over the years. The idea I had was to share the platform with a close friend of mine where we would both share our life experiences and the lessons we absorbed. However, things did not go as planned.
At the beginning, majority of the posts I made were either book review blog posts or journaling, nothing too exciting. It wasn’t until 2015-2016 that Inspire Those became something special for me. It all changed when I made the leap to attend college in Denton, Texas (roughly 950 miles) from the Chicago Suburbs. The change was much needed and tremendously inspiring. I had only ever dreamed about living in Texas. But in 2015, that never-thought-possible, long shot dream, finally became a reality. Texas was more than I could’ve ever hoped for. The university I attended, opened my eyes to all the world had to offer.
In 2015 when I moved to Texas to pursue my Bachelor’s Degree in Integrative Studies at the University of North Texas, I dealt with so much while being on my own. Since I didn’t know anyone prior to moving, I experienced some bouts of homesickness, my car broke down on a few occasions, and I relied heavily on two friends I had met early on. These two friends were amazing and had helped me through a lot. I’m thankful I was able to meet them within the first couple weeks of school. It almost felt like destiny. It was confirmation that God had listened to my prayers.
Anyway, the experiences I had motivated me to write not only about lessons that I had learned but about topics that were important to me. So by 2016, I began posting more consistently. I would discuss college topics, adventures I took, new foods I tried, daily quotes, and some of the lessons learned. But that was not the only thing I began doing, I also started an Instagram page for this blog @those.inspire (has since been deleted) and Pinterest to advertise my blog posts. And I slowly started building my blog.
Then, came late-2017. The year things took a turn for the worst. There were things that happened in my personal life that changed me. It took me a while to deal with and move on from but I still continued to blog. Unfortunately, I put an extreme amount of pressure on myself to stay consistent where I tried to post three days a week. Eventually, it got to the point where I was too overwhelmed and was completely burned out from writing that I no longer enjoyed blogging or writing of any kind. However, I still tried to push through. When I was not able to come up with anything to post about, I would instead post a picture with a saying. And then, I just got into a bit of a cycle of posting pictures for a while before I stopped altogether.
Over the next couple years, I was no longer writing. Instead, I was working out a lot (another passion of mine) and trying to “find myself”. After all, I did graduate college from UNT at the tail end of 2017. Once I graduated, the main focus was trying to find a job. No surprise there. However, that is a story for another time. So there you have it, the Back Story of Inspire Those Who Inspire You.
Thank you for reading!
