The Grey Area

I have always been an artistic person, from a very young age I loved to read and write, draw, paint, bake, dance, sing, act, anything you artistic you could probably think of I have tried. Some stuck more than others, I danced for many years and worked my way to being in a pre-professional program before I graduated high school. Unfortunately, my dance career came to an end after that since I had become rather unwell after all the years of pushing myself so hard while dealing with chronic illness. Since then, I have tried to keep my creative juices flowing, mostly because I go crazy if I don’t, I paint often, I bake still when I can, and I write.

For many years my writing hobby has been extremely private, I would write letters to people with no intention of ever giving them to the person (very to all the boys I loved before iykyk), I would write essays about whatever topic just for the fun of it, I would journal here or there, come up with random short stories, write fan fiction, etc. But all of this I never shared.

I think my main reason for never really taking writing seriously was that none of my writing has ever been cohesive, there is no one thing I prefer to write about over others, which led to me thinking that writing wasn’t really for me since I know I would never be happy with sticking with just one avenue of writing.

Well, I recently remembered blogs existed, I think growing up in the age of YouTube, and everyone wanting to be an influencer caused me to miss out on blogs all together, which is a big part of why I never thought to try it before this. I myself have tried the whole YouTube thing, for me it never worked out. It was too performative, I could never commit to being consistent because I always had to look my best to sit down in front of a camera and film when I would much rather be in my pajamas (as I am now), I was never happy with how anything looked, I would become frustrated and tired with the algorithms, and the constant pressure to post the perfect content 3x a day, and would typically give up after a couple videos filmed, most of which I never even posted.

Most of these videos I tried to film looking back were just blogs that I was speaking out loud, I would share my opinions on things, talk about things I loved in depth, and I even briefly had a podcast. But then, it hit me. One of my friends recently shared that she had a blog and it made me realize that I had never considered that as an option before, the only problem was that blogs typically have a topic that is woven into everything they write about, and I know that’s not what I want to do, so I came up with “The Grey Area”

If it wasn’t already obvious it’s sort of a play on words since my name is Kaelin Grey, and my blog will not be centered on a cohesive idea, rather what I want to write about when I want to write it, making it a “grey” area.

I so look forward to working on this blog! Get ready to read my thoughts on the dance world, dissect Taylor Swift songs, hear about my daily life, talk about pop culture, and honestly whatever else I feel like writing on when it comes up. I have so many ideas, and I can’t wait for this site to become my personal brain dumping place.

So grab a cup of tea, a blanket, and welcome to The Grey Area!