I'm back! Or...I'm baaaaack!
It's been three years since I posted to this blog somewhat regularly.
When I stopped back in 2015, my writing inspiration had run it's course. Post
ideas had fizzled and my need for expression had faded. It was time to focus my
energies on other needs and wants. As some of you know, I've spent the last
three years to make some needed changes in my life; mainly moving back to
Southeastern PA from Rochester. In order to do that, I decided to do a lot of
decluttering and purging of stuff, junk, clutter, etc. (which will be the
subject of an upcoming post). I moved from a two-bedroom townhouse to a
one-bedroom apartment in Rochester in June 2015, and then from there to renting
a room in a friend's house in Phoenixville July 2016. Finally, I moved from
there back into my parents' house in August of 2017. The reasons for the moves will also be an
upcoming post. (See, I have ideas again!)
So, this time, I figured I'd start the
same way I did back in February 2011. Why me?
Anyone who really knows me probably won’t be surprised that I’m
(re)starting a blog. I am totally into
communicating and sharing thoughts and having debates. For one, it keeps my mind active. I firmly believe that one of the biggest keys
to a long life is to keep your mind active.
You’ll find along this journey called my blog that there are some
clichés I completely buy into. In this
case: an idle mind is the devil’s
playground.
The other reason for communicating and sharing thoughts is that on
all levels, I firmly believe we are uplifted when we talk and we share; when we
teach and we’re taught; when we validate and become validated; when we connect
and become connected. If more people
looked outward instead of selfishly focusing inward, a lot of the worries have
in our society would not be as widespread.
We all have a responsibility to each other. Our friendships, our community, our society,
and I’ll extend this all the way out to the human race, rely on that
responsibility in order to achieve happiness at all those levels.
(Note: the
above two paragraphs were basically copied and pasted from my very first blog
post almost seven years ago...!)
Why now?
Last time, this started out as just something to do; a way to pass time.
In addition, I've always enjoyed writing, at least on my own terms. But as I
started posting on a regularly basis, I realized that I had a voice, and that
voice wanted to express itself. And as my voice started to express itself, my
thought processes started to change a little bit. My daily journeys because
subject matter for posts; I would see something, or hear something, and that
would trigger a thought, and become kind of a stream of consciousness; or
sub-consciousness; and forming those streams into a post-able topic, with some
level of organization taking place. In short, writing was very helpful for me
to organize the many different thoughts bouncing around in my head. I think -
often - about many things; some serious, some not so much. And I need that again. This has been kinda
brewing in my mind over the last few months. In preparing for this first post,
I went back through my prior posts (143 posts over four years), and I could
definitely see (and remember) the different ways my thoughts formed and
transformed into posts.
Now that the holidays (and year-end close) are over,
it's time for me to say Happy Accounting New Year, Welcome to 2018, and let's
start this new journey!
In closing, again as steal from my first post; those who
know me know how much I love to drive and to travel. This is the (re)start of what should be a
fun, crazy, inspirational journey where, as cheesy as it may sounds, we’ll laugh,
we’ll shed a tear, and in the end, we’ll all walk a little taller and stride a
little more confidently. I’m gonna be
all over the board here, as I was before; sometimes serious and sometimes just
fun; plus I will probably do more in the area of photo blogging than I did
before. So with that said; we’ll fly by the seats of our pants, up mountains
and through valleys, and I hope to have a few passengers along for the ride!
Another
cliché: To know your future you must know your past...
Final one for today: Time to get this show on the road...
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