Reality

So I'll start with the obvious. I've neglected this blog for the past year or so. I've gotten busy with other things, and writing my opinions and feelings often falls to the side as unnecessary. I want to make it more of a priority, so I decided to start by revamping the look of my page. I liked the look of my page, but I decided it was too simple, and not really keeping up with what you can do on blogger as far as templates go, so I hope you like the looks of it. I tried to keep some of the color choices the same but I think that it looks more professional and smooth now.

For quite awhile, I've had it set up so that facebook would post my blog postings as notes on facebook, but after this post I'm going to remove that setting. I'm thinking I'm going to move away from just politically focused writing,  and while I want to express myself, I don't need everyone and their cat to read it. If someone wants to see what I have to say, they can go to my actual page instead of having it just pop up on their newsfeed.

Sophomore year has been... I guess the best way to describe it would just be that it's been a big year for me. It hasn't been a phenomenal year, but it hasn't been completely horrible. I've had a lot of great days, and a fair number of pretty awful ones. I've been challenged in so many different ways this year, and it's really helped me learn who I am and what I want out of life. I feel like I've grown through so many things like having a responsibility in my job, leadership, making some amazing new friendships in my co-workers among others, looking for and wanting to believe at times that I can find love, falling out with friends for stupid reasons or for almost no reasons at all, seeing death and how it's affected me, trying to define where my faith is, and most importantly, just trying to figure out what I really believe in.

I don't know where I'm going, but I do know where I've been. I'm going to keep being honest with people, especially the people that really matter to me in the hopes that I'll find a few more answers.


I've got more things I'd like to say but I don't really know how to say them, so this will do... for now.

November 10th Resolutions

New Years is still almost two months off, and I figured, why wait? I might as well start now and hope to better myself. So here they are, a simple seven. I may add to the list at some point, but I doubt it. If someone has a better one or something to add feel free to comment. Yet here they stand.

1. Have more "silent freak outs".

2. Smile More. I think this would help me a lot.

3. Try not to get attached. Attachments make failures more pronounced. This goes for people and possessions.

4. Listen to more music. Music is such a beautiful escape from everything. Even the simple oldies of "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News, have been able to console me for days upon end.

5. Read more Non-Fiction. Right now i'm reading "The Year of Living Biblically" by A. J. Jacobs, and its really good. On second thought... it doesn't neccesarily need to be Non-fiction, just books that truly provoke thought and broaden my view of life.

6. Blog more. This almost goes without saying, but I need to blog at bare minimum, once a week. I'd prefer to do it more, but the posts wouldn't have much meaning or substance, especially now that the election is over.

7. Go for walks. Silent and alone. For exercise and to process everything that I think about throughout the day.

Blogging is like confession to the world. Truth is Marching.