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AWOL.COM/Alice Edwards’ Incredibly Unimaginative Travel Blog
25 July – 1.47 p.m.
Hello out there, if anyone is listening.
I know I haven’t been posting proper blogs lately, and I don’t really have an excuse. Life?Busy-ness? Intense laziness?
(Copy and paste those excuses for literally everything.)
The truth is, I’m realising blogging is probably just notme. I can’t spell for shit, I use thesaurus.com at least twice a day, and I still don’t know how to upload a photo that isn’t upside down. It’s notme.
Ha.
Not that I know who or what ‘me’ is – does anyone? God, we spend so much time chasing this idea offinding yourself. But aren’t all selves a bit of everything? Mymechanges every day. Some days I am a kind, nice, happy person. Otherdays I’m a selfish, heinous, miserable bitch. Just like everyone, surely? I am not one thing, and it was silly to think I could find a box to put myself in.
I also wanted to say sorry for all that pretentious, forced stuff I wrote before. I thought it was what I was supposed to do as a blogger. It was stupid, but also, most of what I wrote was nonsense. Yes, this trip has been fun and an adventure,but it’s also been rubbish at times. I’ve been bored and disappointed a whole bunch – just like I was at home – and all my problems were still waiting for me at the end of it. I’ve realised that travelling is great as an experience in and of itself – a great distraction – but it can’tfixyou. It can’t fix problems when the problems are inside.
So anyway, this is my last post on here. I’llgo back to Instagram, where I almost post something every day and then chicken out because at the last second it doesn’t seem worth posting. Yay.
In the meantime, me, Hannah, Mark, Joe and Mum are off up the east coast for some scuba diving. Hannah and Mum have lived here for years and never visited the Great Barrier Reef because they are clearly straight up monsters. I feel fairly confidentmy first time underwater I will hyperventilate, run out of air, get a nose bleed, and be eaten by a shark. So this was probably going to be my final blog either way.
Bye everyone. Thanks for listening, look after yourselves.
Alice x
15 Comments · 385AWOLs · 326 Super Likes
COMMENTS:
Mark Edwards
|I’m going to push you off the boat at the first hint ofa shark nest.
Alice Edwards
Replying to Mark Edwards
|Obviously my official party line is: please don’t do that. But off record: omg how cool would that be as a way to die.
Karen Gill
Replying to Alice Edwards and Mark Edwards
|Finally. Me and mammy have been waiting months for this.
Hannah Edwards
Replying to Mark Edwards
|there’s a boat?? no1 told me there was a boat???? i am not going on a boat
Alice Edwards
Replying to Hannah Edwards
|Hannah, what did you think a reef was?
