The first blog was created in 1994 by Justin Hall, a then university student. It was a compilation of short personal posts, images and links to whatever pleased his heart at the time. Over the next 10 years, personal blogs grew in popularity: a place to vent ,a place where you could talk about the mouldy bread you found at the back of your fridge or how sad your manager made you that day.

Now in 2025, it seems like those little spots on the internet have faded away. For some reason, everything needs to fit a certain aesthetic, and the little imperfections of our day have been completely ironed out. The things that once made us imperfectly perfect; our little quirks have now become odd. Scrolling through mediums like TikTok and Instagram reels, I am constantly bombarded by the ‘perfect’. Perfect hair, nails, bodies, faces, careers, perfect ‘lives’, to the point where I genuinely started to believe that everybody’s life was perfect apart from mine. So, for a long time I felt stagnant because I saw everyone around me posting their seemingly perfect lives, whilst my camera roll grew in videos of me attempting a deadlift with perfect form.

So, maybe personal blogs are truly dead…

Well, hello everyone my name is Emilia. I am a 22-year-old just trying to navigate this thing we all call ‘life’. To my Instagram page, it seems like I have everything figured out: medical school, powerlifting, an amazing God and church family but behind closed doors, I still find myself drawing comparisons to my screen. Should I be studying more? Am I strong enough?  God, am I doing it right?

I named this blog, ‘ Almost Figured Out’ because I don’t have everything figured out, and my life is NOT picture perfect.

I wanted to create a community of people who feel the same. A group of people that feel like they’re kinda, sorta figuring things out no matter how slow. I’ve come to realise that ‘this thing we call life’ is a journey, not a race. It’s not a competition and if we all try to push out versions of perfect, we’ll miss the little bits that actually make it special.

Thanks for reading 🙂