Shiny New Slate

It is in the days after the party balloons no longer stay afloat, the cake has been eaten away, and the celebration high starts to loose its spark that you have to finally come to terms that you are another year older. I say "come to terms" with because this birthday, unlike any other, was a lot harder to accept. Its not that the double deuces club didn't have the anticipated cool sound to it, I just wasn't sure if I was ready to move on and away from my 21st year. 

To sum it up (I saw this somewhere): I think part of the reason why we hold on to something so tight is because we fear seething so great won't happen twice.

and then life does what it does best and throws us the hard truth we really need to hear :

"Its ungrateful and whiny when someone complains about getting older instead of celebrating another year of being alive and making it. For one, This world isn't easy to live in so give yourself a pat on the back for surviving the hurdles and learning to swerve around the BS. Secondly, getting older is not a right, it's privilege...not everyone gets to."

--Stephanie Cook

I thought I would wait until Dec. 6th to officially start the blog as it would have been a month since I had turned 22-- An entire 30 days to have gotten over the 'shock factor' (what am I even talking about? Its not like I turned 50...) and time to set the new bar and set of goals for my 22nd year. I have had a lot of anticipation and thoughts to document since I joined the double deuces entourage.

and that's just what I hope this becomes- a documentary. Or more so an online chalkboard that I can use as a drawing/writing map of things that happen day to day throughout this next year. As with the definition, a chalkboard or blackboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of chalk. My plan is not only to post writing entries, but also projects that I am working on, pictures I have taken for that specific day, quotes I see and want a way to share, why things inspire me, and anything else I feel worthwhile to document.

And just as a teacher walks into their classroom every morning to a clean chalkboard to start a new day, I  will be logging in to a clean blank post. Although it will technically be blank everyday, I also know that there are things that can not be erased from memory and sometimes we have to reuse what we have learned or witnessed in the previous days or weeks. Ultimately I want this to be a total reflection of what is to come and what doesn't come.

"Another fresh new year is here...Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest...To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!" 

-- William Arthur