Hello, all!
My name is Alexandra and I am starting a blog! How original, right? What could I possibly say that hasn’t been said before? The answer to that: probably nothing. So, what am I doing on here? You could probably have a better answer to that question than me, because I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’M DOING. But I’m doing it, and I’m going to do it to the best of my ability.
So, enough with the shpeel, let me introduce myself!
Let’s do bullet points, I love me some bullet points.
- Name: Alexandra (Alex)
- Age: 21 (Oct 25th)
- Ethnicity: Hispanic (Peruvian (but also very white))
- I am a full time student at UTSA
- I am engaged to a lovely man
- I am a Certified ACE Personal Trainer
- I have two dogs: Sparky (10 year old beagle mix), & Luma (6 month old Black mouth cur mix)
- I am vegan, have been since July 5th, 2014
- I’m 5 feet 1 inch
- 108-112 pounds
- I suck at public speaking and I’m even worse at private speaking
- I love photography, I have too many* pictures of my pets
- I’ve had Episodic Depression and General Anxiety since about age 12
- I have Trichotillomania and PCOS
- I struggle with Standardized education
- I’m a sensitive soul
- I want to fulfill my life without having to work a desk job from 9-5
- I want to help people but mostly, I want to help myself.
Well that last one sounds pretty douchey, but let me explain. Imagine that you are me. A 21 year old female who is set to marry her “Mr.Right”. They’ve verbally planned out basically their whole life together. “We get married in 3 years (long engagement), have kids soon after, build our careers around our passions, pay off all our student debt, advocate for those who have no voice, help people live healthier lives and retire to a farm sanctuary.” Sounds alright, yeah. Of course, it’s not everyone’s plan, but it’s ours and honestly, it could change at any second. You see, this plan involves events and actions that make us happy, that make ME happy. So, in my eyes, I come first. I mean, I know what some mothers would say to that, “My kids come first” and I see what they’re saying. I don’t have kids right now and I have no idea what it’s like to be a mother, but I believe that you need to take care of yourself in order to take care of your children, right? When we’re on a plane why do we put our oxygen masks on before our children’s? Because you won’t be able to help your child if you’re not alive!
And I believe this is the same with relationships, romantic or not. Before my fiance and I got together, I was a personal mess. I couldn’t communicate with any of my partners before, I couldn’t figure out why none of them filled that void that I had. It took me a while but I finally realized that they weren’t the ones who were going to fill that void. That was my job. I had to do it myself, I had to care for myself, I had to heal myself and so on. To be honest, I’m still healing, it’s a long process and I will never stop caring for myself, even when I have kids. I’ll just be caring for more souls. It’s not like I ONLY care about myself, that’s not the case at all, but that’s obvious, at least I think so.
I proposed a challenge to myself to start this blog in the hopes of finding what I can succeed at. Maybe blogging wont be my “calling”, but maybe it will. And there’s only one way to find out.
P.s. this blog will (most likely) be composed of health tips and tricks, personal stories, vegan recipes, free workouts, photography and the like. Hope you stop by every week!
P.s.s. I accept and value any feedback, critique and advice from anyone who is willing to provide it (nicely).
*too many for the average person
AlexVictoriaFit 