A Left At The Second Light

Where am I going? How did I get to where I am now? I can't be the only one who feels like this is all happening so quickly. Life comes at you fast, at times it feels like I'm playing catch up with the past while trying to understand the present, all while trying to figure out my future. We're all searching for direction, but I think sometimes it's important to get lost. Try to remember to live in the moment sometimes. Take a quick break from trying to figure out where you're going and appreciate where you are and how far you've come. I hope this is making sense, I'm just typing. We're all the main character of our own stories. Each one of us is the pioneer of our own individual journey. Thankfully we don't have to do it alone. Our paths cross and sometimes even coincide so that we don't have to figure it all out on our own. Life is a team game. Take a look around at your "teammates". How'd they get here, with you? How long have they been here? Who seems like they're in it for the long haul? They all play separate roles. Think about what each of them mean to you, let them know you appreciate them. Circumstances can change in the blink of an eye. Bonds are forever, or at least they can be. Some bonds are broken, some people get cut from the team. No need to harbor animosity even in those cases though. Appreciate them for what once was and learn from the good and the bad. No experience is ever wasted if you can learn something from it, and there's something to be learned from in each and every experience. Everything happens for a reason, no matter how inconvenient it may seem at the time. You can probably point to at least one day or event that changed that the course of your life. At the time you probably thought you'd never get over it. But in retrospect, you probably appreciate it. It's probably the reason you are where you're at now. For example, in 10th grade I switched schools. I was miserable about it. I kept thinking about all the friends I'd miss and how things wouldn't be the same. Looking back on it, I'll never know what my life would've been like had I stayed, but I know I appreciate what I have now. There are so many people I would not have met and so many things I would've never experienced. So in retrospect, it was a good move no matter how tragic it seemed back then. Moral of the story, no matter how strong the winds may be, there's never been a storm that didn't pass. I apologize for the irony of a post about direction being all over the place but that just happens to me where I'm at in life. It's important to focus on your future but keep in mind that tomorrow isn't promised. Life is a gift, don't forget the present.

-Swaggy T

Shoot Your Shot

This is a blog post about how I'm starting a blog.  I've wanted to start a blog for a long time.  For some reason I seemed to always put it off.  This has been among the many ideas or desires floating around in my head that I gave myself excuses not to follow through with.  So I'm sitting here on my laptop at 10:45 p.m writing my initial blog post because if I don't just do it now it may never happen. That's an outlook that I'm trying to implement across many different areas of my life.  I've got to stop pump faking when no one's guarding me. I've been stopping myself , my own worst enemy on so many different occasions. For a myriad of reasons whether it's not believing in myself, or simply coming up with reasons as to why it won't work as opposed to what could happen.  Now I highly doubt this blog is going to change my life in a major way but it's a start in the right direction, a way to get into the habit of shooting my shot.  I hope for and almost expect this blog to be sort of therapeutic in a way.  If you know me and/or follow me on twitter, you know that I have a lot to say.  This is my canvas, this is my podium.  Contrary to my ever growing disdain for all things school related, I actually love to write.  But I only enjoy writing on my own terms. Life doesn't come with a prompt, in text citations or an annotated bibliography. We all have to figure it out on the fly, and that's how I prefer to write. So this blog will be my voice. This can be my platform to speak my mind, even if no one is listening.  I wanted to develop a certain schedule, such as having a post every friday or something of the sort.  But that strays away from the very purpose of this, doesn't it?  So I intend to write something literally whenever. About whatever. Sports, music, life, who knows. If you're reading this, first off thank you sincerely for caring even the slightest about what I have to say, and consider this your invitation to come along for the journey. But I doubt that I'm alone in holding myself back from things I want.  There's probably something that you've wanted to do or try but you've given yourself every reason as to why you can't or shouldn't. A wise man once said "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take". Stop pump faking, shoot your shot.

                                                                                      -Swaggy T