Up for the Challenge

I used to write all the time. My purse, or messenger bag, was always heavy with composition notepads, and rife with ink stains. I would write everything I was feeling and thinking, I would compose poems and songs having to do with love and heartbreak. Everyday I would write something new, something I believed to be so deep and important... And then I stopped writing.

One day I read the things I had been writing, I read my poems and so-called songs, and they made me sad. I realized everything I was writing was sad, or inspired by sadness. All these things I had written, thinking they were so good, they were actually pretty awful and incredibly depressing. I didn't want to write those things anymore, I didn't want to be sad anymore. So I stopped. 

Obviously I mean I stopped writing for pleasure (or as it was, pain), I still write for school, and I still write emails (and snail mail). But I haven't written anything else in a very long time.

So here I am, writing again. I think it will be better this time. I've long since removed the people, habits and things in my life that caused me to write sad/bad poems, and I'm a happier person now. I've learned to surround myself with people that make me happy, and to do things that fill me with joy.

Also, I'm older now and have much less angst than I did. Everything is not the end of the world anymore.

And speaking of people that make me happy... My very good friend, Jessica, decided to make an early New Year's Goal, and she has invited me to do the same. We're going to try to get back into journal writing, but since we're both online so much it just makes sense that the journal should be too. Ms. Jessica is a veteran blogger, along with her personal blog, she also writes a fantastic book blog that you should totally check out! So this goal may be a bit easier for her, but I think I am up for the challenge.

So starting now, I will try to write at least 2 times a week. About whatever I want to, regardless of whether I think anyone else will want to read it. And for those times I run into writer's block, I bought a little kindle book to help me come up with ideas.

Yay for goals!

Oh, yeah... You should also totally check out my friend Liz's blog... Why? Because she rocks, and you should want that in your life.