Here we are again.
B-day.
I'm 27.
I've been thinking about the movie Gross Pointe Blank lately. When I first saw that movie it was either '96 or '97. 12 or 13 years ago. I thought of the characters as adults. I thought about where I would be in my life when my 10 year high school reunion came around. For the last several years, I have continued to think of my life's progress in terms of my ten year high school reunion. This spring will be 10 years.
Am I happy?
Yes.
Am I satisfied?
...are you?
Allow me to take stock. I'm healthy. Not so much wealthy but I'm living. I'm wise enough to know I'm not wise. I have a bachelor's degree. I've traveled alone in Europe. I've been on stage in two musicals and jumped out of a plane (if you can count moving along like sheep in a C-130 full of soldiers until suddenly there is no plane beneath you). I've served my country. I'm no longer serving with a gun and uniform (it feels good). I have started two businesses. I'm raising two dogs. I've learned to knit. I've worked as a production assistant in California and a cook in Pennsylvania.
I met a girl. Other people I graduated with have been married, been divorced, had kids, had jobs, etc. I've managed to fall in love with my best friend and two years later still love spending as much time as I can with her.
There are other things but I'll leave it for now.
All in all I've had quite a good time. There are, however things in which I have been decidedly lax. This blog for one. I began it one year ago and it has an anemic 3 posts. I've read more than I used to (due in no small part to dating a book junkie) but not nearly enough. I'm embarrassed to have a degree in English and not have read To Kill a Mockingbird (among countless other books). I definitely have not written or drawn enough. So here is my goal this year...
I will focus on myself this year. I am going to better myself in every way I can and this blog will catalogue the journey. I will post about my projects and progress. Here are the goals I am starting with:
Improve the Mind:
Write/Draw 5 min each weekday.
Post one blog each week.
Read one book each month.
Improve the Body:
Stretch each day.
Work out at least 3 times each week.
Improve the Soul:
I don't know yet how but work to rekindle my relationship with God.
So for now, adue.
