This Is Life

Meet Zowie

Hi. My name is Zowie.

I’ve always known I was a little different — in the best and messiest ways. I’ve always felt like I had something to say, even before I knew what the words were. So this is me finally giving myself a place to say them.

My name feels like the right place to start.

My mom fell in love with the name “Zoe” when she was a little girl. She imagined it spelled “Zowie” long before she ever knew it was traditionally spelled Z-O-E. Even after she learned the “correct” spelling, she stayed true to her younger self and named me Zowie anyway. I like to think that says a lot about both of us.

Zoe means life in Greek.

My middle name, Esperanza, means hope in Spanish.

I grew up knowing that — knowing my mom named me her “life’s hope.” What I didn’t really look into until ironically a few weeks ago was the deeper meaning of my first name, Zoe. I had this conversation with the boy I was currently dating (not in a relationship) on December 28, 2025.

In this next screenshot i start to shift topics, a little lol 

I’m largely Greek and Spanish, wildly right-brained, and very openly ADHD — the inattentive kind, the kind where your mind lives in a thousand places at once. I’ve never wanted to be just one thing. Ever.

I am interested in practically anything media related because i am interested in anything and everything having to do with the arts and creativity. I am 1000% a right brained human. To be honest (maybe embarrassing confession), I’ve always wanted to be a triple threat or more for as long as I’ve been in existence. I have never wanted to do just 1 thing or be just 1 thing. 1st dream triple threat idea I had (and still would love to carry out): Actor, Singer, Dancer. Like Zendaya or JLO. I literally requested that for my birthday in 5th grade. Then i started modeling too.

But the longer I live the more I want to do so some other media-related interests I have are photography, video editing, digital marketing, graphic design, social media manager, social media influencer, content strategist, and now very recently, journalism. I think the desire to do all these different career paths might be a product of my adhd, but I could be wrong. I just know I wanna do it all. Beyond media-related stuff to. I just wanna live life to the fullest and experience as many experiences and as many places as I can before it is my time. I honestly don’t have any questions to list about media that I’d like to have answered right now at this very moment. I will attribute that to the quote from Socrates “the more I learn, the less I know.” I currently feel like I have a really good grasp on media and don’t have any questions (by the way I just changed my major so I haven’t been learning about these topics thus far in my college career). I am positive that I will quickly develop loads of questions as I start to dive deeper into all of this new content.. 

This blog exists because creators once did that for me.

People like Trisha Paytas, Tana Mongeau, and Emma Chamberlain showed me humanity when I needed it most. They showed me imperfection. Mental health struggles. Insecurities. Boredom. Growth. Mess. And because of that, I learned how to give myself grace. And eventually, how to love myself.

That’s what I hope this space can be for others.

This blog won’t be consistent in topic — and that’s intentional. One post might be about pop culture. Another about mental health. Another about art, philosophy, creativity, or simply existing. The common thread isn’t a niche.

The common thread is me.

This is my life — my thoughts, feelings, questions, and experiences — shared honestly, without pretending to have it all figured out. If you’re curious about life in all its forms, if you like humor and depth, art and chaos, softness and truth — I hope you’ll stay.

This is life.

And this is mine.

• January 27, 2026