Welcome to my blog.
I’m Liam, 24, and I’m having trouble describing myself because my identity is in a constant state of flux. Telling you who I am seems like an impossible task, so I will let my articles speak for themselves.
I’m creating this blog out of a deeply rooted urge to tell stories about my life. Whether this is the result of a healthy passion or an aggrandized sense of self-importance is unclear, but also inconsequential. The urge is there, so I must create an outlet for it.
I have previously attempted to use my YouTube channel Liam on the Loose as this outlet. For various reasons, it failed. But perhaps my biggest failure is that I never felt like I was truly expressing myself the way I wanted to. I was playing a character, a persona, an idealized, dramatized and brandified version of myself. I never felt that I could just talk about the things that troubled (or excited) me in life. This changes now.
I want to be more open, honest and vulnerable. I want to teach myself to trust people with my deepest darkest thoughts. In some way, I want to teach my 15-year old self that not everyone is hell bent on using his confessions to humiliate him.
Let this be the end of running from my fears and the start of facing them head on.