I have kept a journal in the past, writing consistently for a while and then falling off - so, all in all my journal keeping has been sporadic at best. Being in college, I am ALWAYS online doing one thing or another... Usually avoiding homework on Facebook or hiding from assignments on YouTube... Since I am always online, it is the logical step to have an online journal... blog... thing... We will experiment together to see what this becomes as I write. So, in an effort to have some proof that I actually did live, I begin this online journal... blog... thing... I have several friends who all blog and they find it very therapeutic, so I shall give it a shot.
In trying to begin this blog, I asked a dear friend if there was a word or phrase that best described me. She thought for a minute (or so I assume - I asked her via a Facebook message and she took a few minutes to respond) and she sent me this link. I loved it so much that I quite nearly used it in the title of my journal... blog... thing. Alas, I couldn't make it fit. That being the case, I decided to add it into the first entry. I was intrigued by that word because - more often than not- I don't feel very exuberant. Quite the opposite actually... It is a beautiful adjective, and I hope that, one day, I will feel that it is the one that best describes my life.
Life is supposed to shape us, define us, and help us become what we are truly meant to be. I stumbled upon this picture today and I think it fits what I am trying to say. This endeavor (internet-journal-blog-thing) is to help me learn to see the exuberance and, eventually after all the rough patches, be strong.
Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote "There lives the dearest freshness deep down things"
ReplyDeleteYour deep down things have beautiful freshness. Thanks for your vulnerability as a writer - it's the one thing all good writers have to embrace :)