To anyone who may be reading this, you've either accidentally stumbled upon this by chance or you are one of my friends who has been badgered into staring at this page for reasons I shall explain later. Anyway, whoever you may be, welcome. I really would like you to stay but if the urge to go on Facebook and play Candy Crush is too great then I forgive you. Oh, you're staying? Sweet.
If you're wondering who I am, my name is Deanna - or as everyone calls me, Dee. I'm 18 come this October, a Sixth Form student from the UK and to be honest I'd never planned on writing a blog. I'd always assumed that people who spent their time writing their feelings out to the internet were - despite being probably lovely people - most likely socially devoid in some way. Then YouTube popped up and after experiencing the way certain people could utilize its potential (particularly people like TomSka, Slomozovo and OMFG It's Jack and Dean) I came to realise that this big god-like thing we call the Internet was one of the greatest things to come into our lives - for near limitless reasons, but in particular, as a way of helping each other.
People share experiences with other people from around the globe on a daily basis and well, that's pretty awesome. But everybody knows that. It's not like we've got off to a particularly groundbreaking start here but I'm getting there, trust me.
What I realised, was that I have had and are currently having some pretty big experiences in my life; experiences that I could share with the small amount of people in the same boat as me. Or, in a lot of cases - even more appealingly - share the truth to others as to what it's like to go through what I or people like me have. Enlighten, perhaps.
One thing that has happened in my life, unfortunately, has not been very pleasant. It was something pretty big and pretty common and yet something that changed my life so drastically that I think about it every day. HOWEVER, that's a matter for my next post as it winds down a rather unhappy road and, if you couldn't already tell from the title, I generally prefer to keep things upbeat.
So what do I want you to know right now? Well the moving force behind this blog comes from a need to help a friend. I plan to use AdSense on here and make some moneys. I didn't originally know what I would write or even if I would start it, but it was a suggestion I found in a list of 'ways to make money' and seems one of the most fun. This friend was, and is, in a bit of a fix. You see, he's one of those poor unfortunate souls to be in love. Not just that, but in a long-distance relationship. Try from here to America. Anyway, his girlfriend's birthday is coming up and he planned - or at least hoped - to get her over here for a little while. Previously time had been limited due to her being a crazy smart lady who was working very hard consistently for most of her term time. And then she graduated from high school and everything was sunshine and ponies. Then, the constant butt-ache that is financial un-expectancy, reared its ugly head and announced that it would be extremely unlikely that he would be able to afford the £900+ it would cost for her trip here and back. Paying for study and prep to go to University meant that this money couldn't come from her side either. It's safe to say, my friend was, and is, pretty bummed out about this, but pretty much knew it was coming.
My friend, you can call Red, has played a big part, along with the rest of my beautiful friends, in keeping me together for the past year and a half. It baffled me to think that someone so truly and immensely good and kind could be denied something so simple and yet something he wanted so dearly. I knew that, potentially, I was someone who could afford this kind of money and offered to lend him the money, though unsurprisingly, he declined. Red described it as a matter of principles and I understood but still felt frustrated that I couldn't do anything to help him.
And that's when I ended up researching ways of making money relatively quickly and wound up here, telling you this ill-planned story. This blog, for the time being, works towards raising that money, and by reading (as long as I've sorted out the AdSense) you've already help me out, intentionally or not, and for that I owe you a great big smushy thank you. It's not going to give me hundreds any time soon but it's a start and that's more than he expects. As of yet, I haven't told Red that I'm doing this, mostly because he'd probably tell me I didn't need to bother. He describes himself as a realistic and though he hates it, he's pretty much accepted that what he wants right now isn't possible. Being the person that I am, I see the possibility still there. It's going to take close to a miracle but for what he's done for me (as I'm sure you'll learn later) it's more than worth a shot.
Once again, I thank you for reading and all I can say is if you want you help me get that little bit closer, keep reading. There will be SO MUCH more than this I promise but this kind of stuff's always hard to start.
See you soon, Dee x
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