First Post!

Huh. So what now? I have no idea what these blog shenanigans are all about. All I know is I need to spill sometimes, and as I read my good friend Ian's blog, Phriction, it made sense to possess my own vessel of expression. The paranoid voice within me doesn't want to put personal information on this site, nor let the public eye sift through my thoughts, but the cry for a new creative outlet is louder. 

Fact One: I am a freshman in college. 

It is, to say the least, overwhelming. With the bombardment of a variety of pressures such as forming and concreting our pathway to our chosen career and choosing how to portray ourselves in a new environment, it is hard to sort it all out. In one of my require

d readings, I came across a line that rang infinite 

truth. Annie Dillard said in her book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,  

"The world’s spiritual geniuses seem to discover universally that the mind’s muddy river, this ceaseless flow of trivia and trash, cannot be dammed, and that trying to dam it is a waste of effort that might lead to madness."

I have found that I am always demanding immediate answers to any question that passes through my mind. Any wonderment of the spiritual mind can be shared and discussed with others, like that of the academic mind when one raises their hand in class. However, to choose that one question, that one thing to ponder, is damming the mind. To accept the new ceaseless flow of information and opinions I have been surrounded by, I have been trying to accept the full flow as a whole. I realize that in order to transform and become educated, I must form my opinions on each thing specifically, and decide which information is trivia or trash. I suppose this blog can be that place to sift through my mind as I focus on each internal question. 

Fact Two: The college I go to is an Environmental Liberal Arts college. 

The word "Hippiecrite" is something I overheard one day while attending this college. It was used to describe the people who party in the woods but do not clean up after themselves. This school is for the environmentally minded, for each class is related in its own way back to the environment. So the ones who chose this school should be the ones who truly care for the environment in which they live right? Apparently not. The things one says and the things they do are apparently entirely different things. 

I am not any different. No one can be fully conscious of their consequences of their actions, they can only choose to take responsibility and change the repercussions they see. I am not blind. I am not average. Everyday is a constant struggle to rise above the average, and I choose to take that challenge. How can that immense change that everyone cries out for happen if no one chooses to struggle and rise for the things they are passionate about??

Fact Three: My life-long Challenge

...is to live life with passion. Throughout my blogposts I suppose I will share what fills that heart of mine...in the meantime, thats a wrap!

p.s. I'm going to be a fairy for Halloween and it's going to be grand :]