Good Intentions...and New Beginnings

Before I graduated this past May, some friends and I were sitting around talking (and not talking) and dancing around the truth that loomed ahead of us...the fact that change was inevitable, and fast-approaching. We tossed around the idea of beginning our own individual blogs in order to make it easier to keep up with each other and to temper the callousness of change and the pain of separation. While I embraced and supported the idea wholeheartedly, and my intentions were genuine, I clearly lacked the follow-through. I wish I could say that I purposely waited in order to gain the much "wiser" perspective of a person eight months out of college, a person eight months into the real world, but I would by lying. And honestly, I don't feel wiser. If anything, I am more confused when it comes to where my life is heading, and even with where I want my life to be heading.

I don't know what made me want to start writing...it is probably another whim that I will hopefully not give up on. Putting pen to paper is one thing (metaphorically speaking, of course, since this is via type)...but when I write about my life, I'm putting a part of my heart on the page, and the idea of having that available for others to read is foreign to me. But, its kind of exhilirating, too. I've become a lot more open and a lot better with sharing bits of myself over the past few years, and maybe this is another step in that direction... a "new beginning" if you will. Although the title would probably have been more appropriate coming straight out of college, I guess you could say this is a new beginning as well, much smaller and less daunting, but new nonetheless.

At this point in my life, I am uncertain about a lot of things, but I am damn certain that I want to keep in better touch with people, especially the ones that mean the most to me. I don't know how this will help me keep in touch with everyone else, unless we all jump on the blog bandwagon, but at least I'm making it easier for you all...and that's a start.