About Me

Me.  I look identical now, plus a few pounds.

As a soon-to-turn 30 year old sitting at my desk at work, realizing that even after a career change, graduate school, a few moves, and overall voluntary busyness; I was no closer to knowing exactly where I wanted my life to go. What should I be doing? What is my purpose? Am I on the right path? Wait a minute, isn't 30 a little premature to be contemplating these things? Probably, but that's kind of what I do. Contemplate.

But please don't get me wrong, it's not that I wasn't satisfied with what I had achieved up to that point.  A steady job, loving girlfriend, house, and a young child to keep me on my toes.  I had no real or eminent reason to change my life's current progression, but because I find it hard to turn my brain off, I had to ponder it anyway.

So I dove head first into the "trying to get my life in order" stage.  Again, this was all without intention to obtain personal, albeit relative success; but more so direction and reason.  Think "What Color is my Parachute" but for everything.

To spark this "journey of purpose" as I dubbed it, I started talking to a few friends of similar age and similar situation about my dilemma only to realize something monumentally important.  It is remarkable how much time they and I spent preparing or prepping to achieve that next life goal only to find when the goal was reached, it was rather underwhelming. 

I decided then and there it was vitally important to me to not focus on what I should be doing as it related to the progression of my journey, but to just do, something.  

Borrowing from my favorite musical...

"Oh, my dear little librarian. You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering."

-- Harold Hill (The Music Man)    

In short, that something for me was to write. Not for exact purpose or achievement, but for fun. 

As I further outline in my inaugural post, writing is not only easy, but can also do wonders for your own peace of mind.