Hi, my name is Brian, I am 31 years old and I live in the middle of Missouri. I like watching movies/tv and sports. Outside of that I fear I don’t really know how to describe myself. I feel like with the internet there so many voices and ideas out there that I don’t really know what I believe in and even if I did, I would feel like I don’t feel as passionately about them as some people. In the time I went to therapy I was advised to face my fears (which socially is a lot) and to start writing a journal of my thoughts. I did that for about a year, but just writing for myself felt kinda pointless and I would tend to put off writing. So I thought that maybe if I at least started a blog then in will be somewhere deep deep deep within the underbelly of some dark corner of the internet.

My Goals

My goal with this blog is to find out more about myself. With all the loud and passionate noise out there from seemingly all different viewpoints, it’s hard for me to know where I fit in with everything. I often find myself not wanting any confrontation, so I decide to either say nothing or say what I think others want to hear. I’ve tried to getting into more artsy stuff like movies and music. And even though I’ve found songs and movies I like, I still feel like I don’t know why or could really explain why I like them. I’m hoping that by writing out some of the things I like I may figure out something about myself and hopefully eventually to express them orally (though I think that would require actually talking about them out loud rather than writing it on the internet).

Why I named the blog Village Idiot

The reason I went with this name is because I don’t want to be taken too seriously. I want to feel free to express and find my true opinions without feeling like I’m on some soapbox educating the world on how anything truly is or should be interpreted. I mentioned earlier that I try to be nonconfrontational to the point to where I don’t feel like I have true opinions on things, so I want to be able to find what I feel without the weight feeling like I need to be “right.”

In Conclusion

If by some miracle you are reading this I hope you find something interesting or entertaining from it, but this is mostly just for me to find out more about myself. I look forward to seeing how much I improve as a writer and, hopefully, someone who is able to form and express personal opinions and beliefs. Right now I don’t have a schedule of how many post per week or what day, so let’s say right now I am trying to do one a week. Then once I start getting some momentum, then I’ll look to get more ambitious.