WAg - Quietly, and with little fanfare,
the soapbox is once again mounted…
Wonder who will still be around to listen…?
I am on the tail end of one of the most chaotic, twisting, challenging, psychotic, frustrating, rewarding, emotion packed periods I’ve ever experienced.
Note: I very easily could have inserted many more adjectives into the previous sentence
Over the last five weeks, I’ve run five different gauntlets. I had a week of personal anguish due to a serious misunderstanding with my girlfriend’s mother, I had a franticly paced last week at the Missourian (including covering an election), I then worked to get through student staff training and preparing the halls for incoming residents, juggled opening week activities and band camp, and am beginning to sling through the start of my classes.
It has been maddening at times, but at least the scenery keeps changing.
Also included in this period, though not directly related to the above topics, I turned 22, moved twice, purchased hundreds of dollars in books, and never resorted to substance abuse despite numerous jokes about binging on alcohol, glue sticks, or marker fumes.
I have learned a lot about myself; both deriving some important pieces of self-knowledge and recognizing some new questions to be ask.
Lately, my life has been one long haul, and as far as I know, it’s not close to being over yet. After weathering the last few weeks, I feel better prepared and more confident about moving on. I still have no idea what the next destination will be, but that isn’t stopping me from continuing to press forward. A long time ago, I learned the alternative – stopping – not only isn’t a serious option, but that it is boring as well.
Along with moving onward, I hope to start updating regularly again. At this time, I am making no signal that my site producing new updates because I want to be sure I am back in the grove before doing so.
Only time will tell (as well as I) if this long running quasi-experiment is to continue (and can recover from a month’s unannounced sabbatical).
Here’s to time.
Salud.
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