The Surprise

You know when you think you know stuff, but you don't actually. Well something very similar to that happened to me recently. The thing that surprised me was when occurred I was walking to my German class. As I was heading down the hall I was being waved down. When I reached the wavers they told me, out of the blue, "Ian do you have a blog?" At this point my head fell of its hinges. For one thing I have only been writing for a few days, so the blog itself is very new, but the even bigger things was that I had did not think I had shared my blog with anyone. I presumed I was the only one seeing it. While you might think someone could have just stumbled upon by accident, that would be very unlikely. It would be so unlikely because this website has yet to be indexed, which means people can not just find it through google searches. The only way to find it, to my knowledge, is to type in the URL which, once again I didn't think anyone had.

Going back to the question I responded with a candid "yeah, what how do you know." Apparently someone I knew, not very well, had found it and told them. The fact that the person who found it was someone who I didn't know very well only further baffled me, as to how they found it. At this point the only way I think they could have found it, was that I made a twitter account and shared it. This may seem like an obvious answer as to how they found it, but my twitter account wasn't linked with any other accounts, so I don't think it would pop up as something to follow, and my twitter account has zero followers (Cause I'm popular!).

This baffling occurrence got me thinking on other stuff, I personally thought that this was a blessing in disguise. It was a blessing because while I love making this blog, and reading it, one day I would like it if others could read it. While you could say I could just share it, I had mixed feelings about that. While I am totally fine if someone plugs themselves, personally I really dislike having to shamelessly promote myself. I feel like by promoting myself I am not doing what I am doing for myself, but instead so that other people think I am impressive. The silly thing about this is that when someone else promotes themselves I don't think they are doing it to impress me. Really this experience was just a complete shock, showing the world really is a crazy place. Well that's 16 minutes bye!