The End of This Chapter
January 4th, 2008This blog has been a journey, a place of conversation. Some of which i am ashamed and some of which i am proud of. Overall i have learned so much from just simply taking my thoughts and availing them to be open for discussion.
But now it is time for this discussion to come to a close. I feel almost as if it is a chapter in my life that i have read through and am now turning the page into the next adventure.
With this story there are beautiful parts and there are ugly parts. Times when i am proud of what i wrote and other times when i am kind of sad about the way i felt and communicated my feelings. But i am learning so much.
I am going to leave this blog open for as long as i can, all the writings will be archived below and available for viewing. This chapter has come to a close, and a new chapter is now opened.
coming to close
January 1st, 2008i have learned so much this past year, especially this past 6 months or so and this blog has been a big part of it. i am constantly searching out new ideas, listening to others’ ideas and seeing how it may connect with my own story. it’s amazing what you can learn by simply opening yourself up to someone else with another viewpoint.
this blog has been a major part of this journey. as i am searching and finding this has been a place to let some of that out. it’s almost as if it’s a chapter of my own life that i am sharing with you. thoughts and conversations i have that i cannot help but let out.
with that, i have seen the good and the bad of this chapter. i am constantly learning new things about what it means to be patient and gracious when it is so quick to throw in the towel or pin the accusation on someone else. this blog has been the start of some pretty abusive language. the title itself reveals a sort of attitude in which i am not always proud of. as i look back over all of this, i see that it was a process i had to go but also was pretty ugly at certain points.
i am learning that it is always better to focus on the good rather than dwell on the bad. i am also learning that change starts with me and if i see a problem around me, instead of blaming someone else for not fixing it, i myself should take a stand.
i do not want to be a voice to create controversy just for the sake of controversy. i want to share my creativity, and i want to find new ways of cultivating that creativity through the forms of writing and art.
this has been a beautiful chapter and i feel that this chapter has reached it’s end. my voice has been shared and now it is there. and there is no reason to fight to keep it alive. it will marinate in the necessary minds and it will pass in time. and that is good. some things need to die. death is natural, things come and go.
with that, this blog will be closing. the contents and all it’s posts will be archived and kept online for viewing, but i will not continue to write here.
happy new year. may you never be ashamed of the past but let the past help you move forward.
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