Happy Birthday! Year 6

Here we are.

Six years ago, I had an idea in my head. I wanted an online journal, a blog, to record everything I would experience in high school and college. On this day six years ago, I was 13 and still three months away from high school.

I didn’t get everything — this has never been a daily blog. But it’s clear that this blog has fulfilled and exceeded its original purpose. At this point, I actually should be out of college. I need to take a couple more classes, but if I didn’t, then this blog right now would take you from my pre-high school state to my post-college one. That is an amazing breadth of time, and a fathomless depth of growth and change.

Like me, this blog has not stayed the same, and there are a couple major changes I would like to highlight.

First, there was the change from the address carolofthebells.blogspot.com to blog.andrewrabon.com, and later just andrewrabon.com. There were the multiple design changes (we’re now on number nine.) There was the brief merging of this blog with my other personal site, the Temple of Andrex, forming Schedryk. Probably the most major change was the abandonment of Blogger itself for self-hosted WordPress, finally giving me ownership over all of this blog. And finally, there was the most recent change of “rebranding” this blog from Carol of the Bells to simply, “Andrew Rabon’s blog.”

These are what I would call the most pivotal points in the history of this blog. Most people wouldn’t find stuff like this interesting, but I definitely do. After all, this blog was meant to record, and this is a record of the biggest changes.

This coming year will be this blog’s last under the promise I made in January 2007, where I vowed to keep it going for at least seven total years. I can’t say yet if it will continue after that, but looking into my heart, I will say it probably will. I’ll keep changing it and shaping it to my needs, and I’ll keep using it as a reference of myself to make me into a better person.

Six years. An eternity has elapsed in the blink of an eye.
-Andrew