I can’t believe that it has been over three years since I started Fake It. At that time, I was eighteen years old, just out of secondary school, anxiously awaiting starting college. I had a summer of no plans ahead of me and I really wanted to sink my teeth into a new project. For months I was thinking about starting a blog. I wasn’t sure if it was something that I would be any good at as I was a mediocre English student at best and my MacBeth synopsis essays were not the subject of critical acclaim.
During my teens I kept a diary so I knew that getting my thoughts down on paper was something that I enjoyed. The thing about most diaries is that no one else is supposed to read them so I wanted to be able to share stuff about my passions out there in the open. I didn’t care and still don’t if I get 3 readers or 3,000 readers (although the former is probably more true to life).
So, I had decided that I wanted to start writing. The next decision that I had to make was what was it that I was going to write about. Clothes and food were always two huge passions of mine so that made the most sense to me! The name of my blog came to me as I was lying in bed, in a haze as I was about to drift off to sleepy town. It is a play on my own name:
Fa-Ke It
Farrell-Kelly It
Some may call it narcissistic, but I call it unique and something with my name all over it!
As I have gotten older and bolder, I like to think that I have learned a thing or two. The three and a bit years I have spent in college so far has taught me so much about myself and the person that I want to become some day. People who think that your school days are the best days of your life are seriously deluded. College is where it is at if you ask me. I have met some of the best people and I am honoured to call them my friends. At 20 I secured my dream internship and again met some more amazing people who turned out to be the best mentors, team mates and friends anyone could ever ask for. I have started my quest to see the world and spent 5 weeks this summer just gone, touring the west coast of the USA with six others, the majority of which were complete strangers and who I only first met on the first day of our trip. A truly once in a lifetime experience filled with stories that I hope I will never ever forget.
So as you can see a lot has happened and a lot has changed in the years since I started Fake It. I think that I have grown up a lot and I think that Fake It has too. I laugh and even cringe a little when I look at a few of my first posts. The outfits, the blurry photos-I definitely had a lot to learn! Sometimes I couldn’t dedicate all of the time that I wanted to the blog-sometimes because I was too busy and other times because I was too lazy! Somewhat of a paradox one might say! But knowing that it was there and that I could return to it anytime I wanted was always comforting to me because it meant that I always had an outlet to express my creativity as and when it suited me!
So going forward, I would love to dedicate more time for blogging and to continue to explore new ways of expressing what I am passionate about. Hopefully if I get the chance to travel some more, I can incorporate that in too! Thank you to everyone who has supported the journey so far and here’s to the next three years.