Life's in a great big hurry isn't it? There's some pretty strong currents out there that just sort of sweep you up. Like the "busy" current. There's hardly a person I talk to that doesn't respond to an inquiry of how they are with "busy,"
unless, that is, they give the generic "good" which is rarely the truth of the matter...
(there are so many more interesting words than "good" out there in our modern vernacular when it comes to how one is doing. If you ever catch me saying "good" to a question of how I am SOMETHING is up and I give you permission to interrogate me further (but really, I'm pretty an open book and I do take delight in talking so, if you're patient, you'll get a good story and a bajillion tangents). Like this one right now. I was talking about how busy life is and here I am analyzing the responses of people to "How are you?" Don't be surprised if I do this... I write like I talk and I talk in every direction!
But isn't that like life? All over the place. There are things to see, do, contemplate and experience. It's a gongshow... at least sometimes
When I graduated from high school, I was convinced that life was A great, BIG ocean. When you're a kid, if you have a nice childhood, it's like you're a little fish in a happy little fishbowl with food that comes seemingly from nowhere and everything is reasonably safe... there's colourful pebbles... you might even have a castle...
but then again your experience might be like that of any fish that meets "Darla"... the young, crazy kid in "Finding Nemo" who shakes the fishbowl to the detriment of the fish. Pretty much the Godzilla of the tamed-fish world. Maybe your parents split up or you were bullied in school or things were just plain bad... make whatever fish analogy fits your story... We all have a "Darla" that makes things difficult or dangerous...
Well, when I was in high school I was the safe happy fish in the fishbowl, with a middle class fish castle and food in ma bellay... but then came adulthood... and I was expecting it to be as if my family took my little safe little bowl, brought it to the big ol' ocean and dumped me in. Like SURPRISE! HERE'S Life! DON'T LET THE SHARKS EAT YA!
It wasn't quite like that ...
but life is sort of like an ocean...
Whether the great big blue is all the things you want to do or all the things you don't know or all the pressure on you to get things just right... we're thrown into this world and we have to figure out an awful lot on our own. If you have friends, family and faith, those things all help-- but the pressures out there won't go away... telling you (or yelling at you), saying how you need to be successful, what you need to own, what you need to experience, how you need to look, and who you ought to be...
We're swept up in the current. We're busy. We're trying to make things work and get through life with as much good as it has to offer.
But it can be hard.
There's scary stuff out there.
Funny fact: I can't swim alone in the ocean without the "Jaws" music going though my head...
...True story... not fun...
BUT, there are awesome things that we grow to love, experience, explore and treasure. Lately I have been so blessed by the friends that I have and how much joy it is to feel loved and supported... like having a net that makes the sharks seem so far away... and even when things get crazy busy and we're trying to figure out our way in this world, there's some things we need to remember not to miss in the process...
So, this blog that I'm attempting to write in my crazy, study-burdened mid-exam mind is my attempt at giving an insight into my side of the ocean. I've got some pretty fun goals lined up, some things worth saying and some random tid bits in-between. Life's in a great big hurry. It's a process of learning and growing and cutting out things and putting in things. It's a beautiful time and a hard time. But it's limited. What time I have I want to make count.
So, welcome to my blog. One of a million bajillion out there. If you read it, I will be pretty stoked, not going to lie. Life is huge. There's so many questions out there, so many things to hope for. My greatest joy in life is my faith, which I can't help but talk about because when you experience something AWESOME you can't help but share it.
But, ya, this is my process of progress. my blog. Prepare for a wild ride...
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