I think I'm going to start keeping a real journal. People use LJ for one of two things: legitimately keeping people posted on their lives, or seeking attention. I have no desire to do the latter, and I would prefer the former be more face-to-face and personal. Without having a place to write for now, I'll give you an entry ( Read more... )

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The problem with change sometimes is that if it's subtle enough and spread out over a long period of time, it's incredible easy to miss it until it is substantial. I was looking at some old things that reminded me of a year or two ago. I didn't remember until now that person that I used to be, nor do I know how it changed into the person I am now ( Read more... )

This is disturbing, no?

I want to get so unbelievably good at guitar. I just don't know where to begin, which is why I want to get lessons in the fall. Let's just hope that this, unlike most other similar things in my life, will be something I will follow through on. I think I need to finally realize that guitar is similar to how trumpet was in that you actually do need ( Read more... )

I've never watched or read the news much in my lifetime. As such, I've never been informed of a lot of current events and thus haven't been a person who thinks much about politics. But the more I read and the more I hear and the more I am exposed to what is actually going on, the more I worry about this country and where it is going. It really is ( Read more... )

So I've been thinking a lot lately about the whole college track and what I want to do with the rest of my life. I am not really much closer to knowing what I want to do than I was a year ago today. But the one thing that has changed is that there are a lot more possibilities than I previously thought ( Read more... )

I don't really know what I'm feeling right now, but it feels pretty important enough to write down even if I have no idea what it is or how to express it. It is a combination of nostalgia, the passage of time in general, a realization of the importance of making memories to be nostalgic about, the incredible amount of memories you can have in a ( Read more... )

1) Learn to relax and understand the fleeting but great nature of most things in your life. You will meet incredible people and you will have incredible times. You will meet the sorriest excuses for life you could imagine and you will have times where you feel like you're breaking. If you really analyze the things and people around you, you can ( Read more... )

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