You can now find me here:
https://rahmadhussein.wordpress.com/
(It'll be the same bloglovin account, I'll just change the URL registered!)
Thursday, 28 August 2014
Sunday, 17 August 2014
on lifestyle blogging
I thought I'd make a post on blogging itself, and this very idea of what blogging essentially is has changed for me over the past year.
Around this time last year, I started this blog. Writing things on the internet is something that I've always wanted to do, but I didn't really have the time to formally start a blog. So when I started, my aim was to write about things that I found interesting, and not a beauty or fashion blog - trust me, I'm totally totally useless with those kind of things. However, 'lifestyle blogging' didn't really occur to me at the time.
I enjoy writing about things such as feminism, politics, history etc and I thought that I could do that by starting a blog, but I quickly realised that everything that I was writing about was student related somehow - either directly or indirectly. I didn't think that my blog would fall under the category 'student lifestyle', but it has.
Over the course of this year, I've started to realise that this sort of writing really isn't my thing.One of the things that really stood out for was the fact that when I started blogging, things started to go pretty badly, therefore, a great majority of my posts encircle the ideas of "I hate school" or "I'm not coping", and trust me - this is exactly how I felt throughout Year 13. This has obviously affected what I was writing as everytime I gave an update it was always negative news. What surprised me more is that people are actually reading this, and I think to myself "Does this really deserve any reading?"This place felt like a diary and probably the only place where I could write about my feeling honestly without my friends telling me to stop being melodramatic.
I think that I've now realised that I don't really fit in with the 'lifestyle blogging' world. One of the things that I want to undertake in my gap year is activism, predominately through writing. I've never really been involved in activism before - other than ranting on twitter, but I'd like to start a new blog - entirely personal - and write about things that I find interesting and more grown up than moaning about student life. If I was to write about feminism for instance, it wouldn't fit into this blog. It would be entirely out of place. I want to exit the negativity that I've been focusing on and look forward in life and think about all the great things that I've accomplished along the way.
I enjoy reading beauty/fashion/lifestyle blogs, but these things really aren't for me. I want to start fresh. I won't delete this blog as I'll probably return and read back the year I suffered anxiety, but I'd like to think that I've come far in coming to terms with it. I'm now the happiest I've been in a very long while. So, it's time to say goodbye to 'A Student's Confessions', and hello to the future!
This however, isn't the last you'll see of me. I'll update you readers when I start my new blog (coming very soon!). But last but definitely not least, I'd like to say a huge massive thank you to everyone who's read this over the past year and to those who've followed me on this short journey. You are all amazing people! Thank you so much for sticking by and commenting etc, sharing experiences is always a lovely thing. Your blogs are great too and are always a pleasure to read!
For now, a heartfelt goodbye!
*hugs and kisses*
Rahma xo
Around this time last year, I started this blog. Writing things on the internet is something that I've always wanted to do, but I didn't really have the time to formally start a blog. So when I started, my aim was to write about things that I found interesting, and not a beauty or fashion blog - trust me, I'm totally totally useless with those kind of things. However, 'lifestyle blogging' didn't really occur to me at the time.
I enjoy writing about things such as feminism, politics, history etc and I thought that I could do that by starting a blog, but I quickly realised that everything that I was writing about was student related somehow - either directly or indirectly. I didn't think that my blog would fall under the category 'student lifestyle', but it has.
Over the course of this year, I've started to realise that this sort of writing really isn't my thing.One of the things that really stood out for was the fact that when I started blogging, things started to go pretty badly, therefore, a great majority of my posts encircle the ideas of "I hate school" or "I'm not coping", and trust me - this is exactly how I felt throughout Year 13. This has obviously affected what I was writing as everytime I gave an update it was always negative news. What surprised me more is that people are actually reading this, and I think to myself "Does this really deserve any reading?"This place felt like a diary and probably the only place where I could write about my feeling honestly without my friends telling me to stop being melodramatic.
I think that I've now realised that I don't really fit in with the 'lifestyle blogging' world. One of the things that I want to undertake in my gap year is activism, predominately through writing. I've never really been involved in activism before - other than ranting on twitter, but I'd like to start a new blog - entirely personal - and write about things that I find interesting and more grown up than moaning about student life. If I was to write about feminism for instance, it wouldn't fit into this blog. It would be entirely out of place. I want to exit the negativity that I've been focusing on and look forward in life and think about all the great things that I've accomplished along the way.
I enjoy reading beauty/fashion/lifestyle blogs, but these things really aren't for me. I want to start fresh. I won't delete this blog as I'll probably return and read back the year I suffered anxiety, but I'd like to think that I've come far in coming to terms with it. I'm now the happiest I've been in a very long while. So, it's time to say goodbye to 'A Student's Confessions', and hello to the future!
This however, isn't the last you'll see of me. I'll update you readers when I start my new blog (coming very soon!). But last but definitely not least, I'd like to say a huge massive thank you to everyone who's read this over the past year and to those who've followed me on this short journey. You are all amazing people! Thank you so much for sticking by and commenting etc, sharing experiences is always a lovely thing. Your blogs are great too and are always a pleasure to read!
For now, a heartfelt goodbye!
*hugs and kisses*
Rahma xo
Thursday, 7 August 2014
Seven days to go...
We've once again re-entered the dreaded month that is August. A month to find out whether all your hard work, constant crying and stressing your brains out has paid off. You've guessed it, it's the month containing a day known as 'Results Day'.
I'm not going to lie, I'm extremely petrified. I'm terrified. I feel like my anxiety is returning. I feel so...argh.
In seven days time, I'll find out how I did. Exams didn't go down well, or at least I don't think and at this point I'm pretty sure that I've missed the entry requirements. I've already had dreams that I've failed and the thought of this is just so sickening. My last exam especially was so so awful and it's haunted me ever since.
As you can tell I'm expecting the absolute worst, but I hope that everyone receiving A-Level results next week have a cause to celebrate for. BEST OF LUCK EVERYONE! We're all in this together! :)
I'm not going to lie, I'm extremely petrified. I'm terrified. I feel like my anxiety is returning. I feel so...argh.
In seven days time, I'll find out how I did. Exams didn't go down well, or at least I don't think and at this point I'm pretty sure that I've missed the entry requirements. I've already had dreams that I've failed and the thought of this is just so sickening. My last exam especially was so so awful and it's haunted me ever since.
As you can tell I'm expecting the absolute worst, but I hope that everyone receiving A-Level results next week have a cause to celebrate for. BEST OF LUCK EVERYONE! We're all in this together! :)
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