Today is also the one year anniversary of this blog.
As hard as it is for me to believe that I am now a 22 year-old, it is even more mind-blowing when I think about the fact that I have had this blog for an entire year. What a year it has been! So much has happened. And thanks to this blog, I can look back on those memories a little more vividly.
I played "Beth March" in Little Women the Musical.
I went to New York City, saw celebrities, lost my purse, and miraculously got it back.
I went to Charleston, SC and fell in love.
I directed a one act play.
I wrote a short film (which I'll actually be filming very soon).
I wrote a feature length film script.
I read a BUNCH of romance novels and loved each and every one of them.
I lost two pets in one summer.
I took summer classes at a different school.
I was in a music video.
I was given the lead role in the fall production at school.
I got to see/hear Sutton Foster sing live.
I got bangs for the first time since I was 3.
I learned in many different ways that love can be lost and found and lost again and found again in the strangest places and when you least expect it.
I learned that disappointments don't always lead to an end.
I learned that love covers a multitude of sins.
That last one I should have known already.
I went back and read my very first entry. The description I gave of myself as a new 21 year-old wasn't really all that different than how I am today. There were a lot of things about today, my 22nd birthday, that were strikingly similar to my 21st. Such as it snowed. And we got a snow delay. Two years in a row on that precious gift from nature. I felt very blessed. But at the same time, too much has happened in my life in the past year for me to really feel "the same." I don't feel the same. I feel (this might sound obvious but) older. Wiser. A little more mature. But I don't feel any more "serious." If anything I think I've lightened up a bit since last year. And honestly a lot of that development has only occurred in the last couple of months. I'm still just as much a work in progress as I was a year ago. And I guarantee you that a year from now, I'll still be. But I'd rather be a work in progress than stagnant, boring, without care. I would only wish the same for anyone.
Since I've rambled on about me me me for this whole post, I'll contribute something a little more real to what I've made this blog about. I'm going to simply share something I scribbled down in my journal last night. All I'll say in conclusion to this celebration of the anniversary is that this blog has been a real blessing for me in the last year. It's really helped me. It's something I've cherished and hope to cherish for a long time. Readers or no. It's a nice outlet for pretty much any kind of day I'm having. I would encourage anyone to have an outlet of some sort. Bottle things up and you'll drive yourself mad. So why not put it on the Internet for the whole world to see, right? Ha...okay seriously I'm done talking now. Enjoy. And thanks for reading.
"TREASURE ISLAND
If you find a treasure chest on a deserted island, are you really a rich man? What good are gold, silver, and jewels if you have nothing to spend them on? Nowhere to spend it. No one to share it with.
A man may be worth more than all the world combined, but without the simple gifts...
Family
Friends
Home
Companionship
Joy
LOVE...
He is as poor as the penniless fool.
True treasure is rarely buried. It is usually right in front of our eyes. No map. No 'X' marks the spot...But it's there.
Don't miss the tide."
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