I don’t know what I want to do. It makes sense, as I’m still
a few months shy from entering my 20’s. I don’t expect to know what I want to
do until at least my 30’s, and that’s because our lives, and the lives around
us, are always evolving. Sure, in a year I’m going to want to do things, but am
I going to know what I want to do?
I know that I want to create, and inspire others to create,
but how do I figure out the best way to do that? Certainly, the act of simply
looking at something inspiring can make you feel more creative, but how much of that ends up staying only in
your head, and how much of it actually pushes you to make?
In the past year I have moved three times, enrolled in two
different universities, and studied three different majors. I have had a
plethora of jobs, a number of which I'm still involved with, and I’ve spent way too
much of my time with my ass glued to a train seat. As laziness is in my nature,
I wasted much of those hours on small things; rather than doing school work, I scrolled
through countless Instagram feeds, Pinterest boards, and wasted plenty of data
downloading, deleting, and redownloading twitter (based on the level of
tolerance I had that day).
A normal person would feel guilty about the time spent
looking at pictures and funny text, but I have given myself room to look at it
from a different angle, one that doesn’t make me remorseful. I see my time
spent with my internet buddies as time spent soul searching, performing market
research, and inspiring myself. As I mentioned before, seeing something
creative can inspire creativity in a person, and I have been inspired. I have
been inspired to work harder, and to do more than I have already been doing. I
am broadening my area of interest, and in turn, I am extending the horizons of
content that my blog possesses. Due to this fact, I am taking some time to
remodel and reassess what I am doing here. I will still be focusing on food,
but I will incorporate other ideas and interests into the posts. Oh yeah, and I
will start posting againJ.
Elk in the Kitchen will most likely be replaced with a new name, a new ideology,
and certainly a new bio for myself, but the idea will still be the same. And I,
Elke, will still be the same, with maybe a bit more drive, and some more
diversity.
So, please, keep checking in to see how my remodel is going,
and please stop by if you ever want for some inspiration. My hope is to create
something beautiful and lasting, and to make people feel a little happier than
they already did.
Thanks for sticking around, thanks for reading what I have
to say, and thanks for (hopefully) coming back to see what progress I have
made,
Elke