What's ours is mine

I told one of our mutual friends that I think about you in many of the things I do. He said to make those things my own. I think I've begun to do that. When I watch our favorite YouTubers, I watch them because they make me happy. When I take pictures of my family like you'd often be forced to do, I remind myself that they are my family. When I watch TV series and movies, I keep in mind that I am enjoying the show. Anime was always more my passion than yours, so watching anime is easily my thing, no emphasis required.

On the flip side, I'm not going to lie and say that they are only mine. I do occasionally remember how we used to do these things together, and I wish we were still doing it together. But that isn't the primary thought in my mind, at least not while I'm actually doing those things. While I'm enjoying myself, those thoughts of us being together aren't regretful but hopeful. We'll do this again someday. It'll all be fine, and we'll be best friends again. And you still won't want to watch anime with me, but I'll just do that on my own.

While I'm making our things mine, I'll play Final Fantasy VII all the way through. You aren't holding me back in Midgar anymore with your plea, "Don't play any further than I have!" No matter how much you roleplay FFVII, that game and its lore are going to be my experience. The flip side to this? I'm looking forward to roleplaying it with you again... you'll like that, too.

Blogging

A new friend of mine told me that she'd like to blog as well. I think, similar to this blog, it'd be a vent. She's posted some well-woven words on her G+ profile. She asked me to impart blogging knowledge to her (which I didn't really consider myself having) so this post will be a reflection on what I do on this blog.

Subject

Tell Her Before I Die is about a person whose struggle with depression is alleviated by communicating to a particular woman, though that woman refuses to respond. The posts, thus, have to do with that struggle or with that woman.

Fictionality

This blog is nonfictional. Nothing that is posted here will ever be fictional.

Presentation

I present my blog as a digital collection of unsent or open letters. You may notice that the gadget that connects to my G+ profile is identified with "Yours truly," as if it were my signature on these letters. I do recognize the letters as part of a blog, though.

Addressal

The second person, or the reader, in my posts is assumed to be the woman that the person wants to communicate with. The person is referred to in the first person as the author. Except for celebrities, other people are addressed by their relation to the person and the woman rather than by name. These rules don't apply to other elements of my blog, though. For example, the Suicide & Self-Harm Prevention box is addressed to the internet at large.

Language

My blog is written in American English. The mood of the language used ranges from casual to romantic.

Patterns

• I update the blog twice daily.
• A post title's only capitalized letter is the first letter. The titles follow proper grammar rules for capitalization. The titles lack ending punctuation (periods, exclamation marks, question marks).
• In terms of HTML, I adhere to HTML5 standards. I place my content in an article element. That element's ID starts with the letter a followed by the date and daily post number, in the format of aDD-MM-YY-#.

Tendencies

• I often end my posts with a closing thought, normally only a sentence long.
• My posts usually consist of some paragraphs of prose in mostly-plain text, with some italics for emphasis. This post and my Valentine post are examples of deviations from that.
• The post titles are usually a phrase or sentence that summarizes the post.

Someone wanting to blog should consider what their blog's subject, fictionality, presentation, addressal, language, patterns, and tendencies will be. Those are the essence of a blog, as far as I can tell. I wonder if you would want to run a blog?