The First Post

I first wanted to create this blog over a year ago as a place to spill my thoughts and share my ideas, no matter if no one was really listening, I wanted to give it a go. Being a person far too obsessed with aesthetics and branding my immediate thought when creating this blog was its name – what phrase or few words could be worthy of summing up who I am and what I stand for, whilst also being catchy and simple as well as suiting the content of what I was going to write about?

I knew my blog was never going to be just one thing; it would never purely be about movies and TV, or thoughts on celebrity culture, or stories about my personal life. It was going to be a fucked up mess of everything. After a day of searching through blog name generators and trawling through theasaurus.com I finally settled on the name The Pink Filter.

The Pink Filter came from the idea of rose-tinted glasses, seeing the world through a filter of pink, happiness and roses. That just about summed up my entire world view a year ago. As a child I was brought up on a diet of Disney movies, happy endings and fairytale characters, and this attitude had definitely filtered into my adult life. I knew the world wasn’t cookie cutter perfection, but I always saw the best in it and believed that things would always work out if you tried hard enough.

With as much passion as I had for this blog last year, it ended up shelved in the back of my mind like many of my other ambitious ideas, long to be forgotten about – so what made me pick up my metaphorical pen again? Last week I went to the first meeting of my university’s magazine society, and realised that everything they wanted us to write about was snobbish, not my taste and incredibly inpersonal; if I was going to dedicate my time to writing, I wanted to write about stuff that I cared about, and that I thought other people would care about too. So, I decided to unshelve the idea that had been collecting dust in my mind for the past year and logged into this blog once again.

If you hadn’t guessed by now, my view since first choosing the title of this blog has changed slightly, not that I’m a completely cynical and disenfranchised now, but I guess you could say ‘a series of unfortunate events’ forced me to see that the world doesn’t always work in your favour, not every movie is good, no person is flawless and sometimes Channel 4 ruins the Great British Bake Off. My rose-tinted glasses had a crack in them.

So I suppose my aim when writing this blog is exactly what the title of it suggests, I know I’m not going to love everything and sometimes I’m going to write about things because they annoy me or disappointed me, but I’m also going to discover things that I love, and write about things that inspire me. My aim with this blog isn’t to look at everything through rose-tinted glasses, but try to find a positive in everything whilst knowing things can be flawed, and maybe gain back some of that Disney purity of 19-year-old me – to write looking through The Pink Filter.

Molly x