Learning the Basics. As a Twenty-Year-Old. Oops.

I knew I had slacked off a little bit when it came to my blog, or at least my learning experience posts. I have been at a loss for what to write about, and not because I think I am all-knowing and have nothing else to gain from observing society. I simply have not felt I have experienced anything worth writing about. However the semester is coming to a close and I knew I needed to get them done, so today I logged on to get them finished. I got onto my actual blog page to double check and make sure I had all my other posts done, and I had a moment where my stomach dropped.

I was missing almost half of my conversation posts. HALF.

I completely panicked. I probably scrolled through my pages for a solid ten minutes, just hoping that maybe they would magically appear. Maybe I had counted wrong. Sadly, this was not the case. The last few posts I had made about my conversations with Youness were no where to be seen. Now, I am new to blogging, which I  am sure is a shocking fact considering I am immersed in almost every other kind of social media. Yet despite my veteran status I have no idea how Blogger works. That being said, my search to find my missing blog posts was fairly futile for a while. It took me a solid fifteen minutes (as it usually does) to find how to create and edit a post. Once I did, however, there my posts were, sitting all pretty and typed out for the world to read. Yet on my actual blog page they did not appear, and for some reason I could not figure this out. Again, another five minutes probably passed before I finally got my slight panic to subside enough to see the little "Draft" next to the post. 

I had never hit publish, and this is why they were not showing up. 

After this realization I laughed out loud at myself in the middle of the library. I got a few stares, I wasn't ashamed. Not realizing that I had forgot to publish my blog posts made me feel like my 84-year-old grandmother trying to work the DVR. It is such a simple thing to accomplish, especially for someone who is supposed to be "young" and "hip". However, this did serve as a good learning experience. This incident did not just occur because I do not know how to navigate this site, but because I was not being careful enough. I need to more closely proof read and double check when I complete assignments because it would have been so easy for me to lose those posts and have to re-write them, as I had originally feared. For this class it would not have been the end of the world because the blog posts are based on personal opinion. If this would have happened for the twelve-page research paper I had due last week, however, my freak out would have been a little more severe. Yes, I am still learning this as a supposed 'adult', but this is just another reason why this was such a good learning experience for me. It shows we are constantly growing in life knowledge and in how we can be more successful in life. People are truly never done learning.

Anyway, the moral of the story: always double check.