The Resolution

Okay, so here goes, an honest to Thor personal post (yeah I know I posted earlier already, but a friend inspired me to write something more personal).

I'm in grad school and it's a lot of work. More work than I was expecting to be honest. What makes it worse is that I ended up only getting into one school and that one school happens to have quarters instead of semesters which made coming back to school after the (short) winter break extremely difficult and jarring. I was happy to come back to my apartment and be surrounded by all my stuff in one place, my movies and TV and video games and computer. Don't get me wrong, I miss home and the people I left behind, but this feels like where I need to be, not necessarily where I belong, but where I need to be right now. It's complicated of course, but life in all of its simplicities is pretty complicated.

That's where the Contingency comes in: plan for the worse, live for the best, and never let the things you care about slip by. Technology and media are important to me, they help me prepare for the worst days and help me live through the best, but they'll never replace people and they aren't who I am, and they shouldn't be who you are either. What I am lives in everything I do, in everyone that has touched my life, and to some extent in every post here. 2011 is a new year, and one that I aim to make my own, and you'll probably bear witness to that evolution, much like a Pokemon trainer. My resolution: risk furiousness for bliss, get beyond the past that tries to bring me to my knees, start the path towards the legendary person I aim to be, and earn the strength to accept whatever else happens to come my way and the things that don't. So its a little long, and maybe a bit deeper than losing weight or learning a new skill, but I need to grow. I'm in my early 20s, I've been in school for 17 straight years, and I'm going to stop before this gets too too personal. The point, take this opportunity to resolve to improve yourself. You are already awesome, come on, just accept it, now it's time to become legendary.

Yeah I know, this post is wicked wishy washy for what might be considered a media blog, but beneath this technologically shielded chest does lie something that resembles a human heart (as far as I know anyway, I've never actually looked in there).

What's your resolution?

Dream on.

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