I think that 18 is too young to say that you don't know what you're doing with your life. I mean, technically, you are just beginning 'your life', but for the past four or five months, I've been in a rut. Now, I know that whoever reads this will think, "why do I care?" and the answer is: you won't. That being said, feel free to carry on reading.

I hate my Instagram account and my rated PG Twitter account that I made separate from my own one, because God forbid you have an opinion in the 'working' world of social media. I've been told what's to be censored, how to address image use and how to 'gain 4,000 followers in one month' from a Pinterest pin written by a 40 year old woman who's been blogging for 15 years. Now I'm not bashing her, in fact I think she's remarkable, but I do disagree with this cookie cutter image that many bloggers take on.

I think with the recent events taken place on YouTube with content being de-monetized on videos that are 'free-speech' and shouldn't be considered offensive, has brought around these feelings. I don't want to ramble, but I do want to rant. I hate not having the confidence to make the kind of content I want to watch or to take the pictures I want to see, all because the blogging world is quite generally a boatload of beautiful, slim people that seem to have wads of cash for hauls. I'm not quite sure how to write this post without it sounding like I'm a jealous maniac but in some aspects, I am.

However, I do want to achieve the cool blog with the cool shoes and cool persona, but the longer I yearn for that the more time I miss out on the cool people around me and the cool things I actually get to do. So from this moment on This Student Wears is going to be a life blog. Not a 'lifestyle' blog because everyone should be busy creating their own. It will be a collection of thoughts and feelings that I have and whether or not you'd like to stay for the journey, is down to you.

Much Love,
Katie x