A New Beginning

I am starting something new, this blog! It will replace my Facebook and Twitter posts because those are a waste of time and I can communicate with people that I really love and care about through calls, texts, and letters. Snail mail isn't completely dead, right?

In addition, this blog will keep people posted about my adventure as a college student. But, I don't leave for another 70 days so...

I want to talk about clocks, eternities, and one of my favorite books, Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli. I may also quote John Green a few times from his book The Fault in Our Stars because I did just see the film. (Don't worry, I also read it, twice.)

Eternity seems like a very long time.  It extends past man and protrudes into the afterlife.  I find it quite ironic how clocks are normally circles and how they will forever go around and around and will have no end yet they demand an end. They say when something has begun and when it must stop. They rule our existence to take us from one activity to another.

One of my favorite quotes:

Clocks--that's the problem.

Every clock is a nest of minutes and hours.

Clocks strap us into their shape.

Instead of heading for the nearest star, all we do

is corkscrew.

Clocks lock us into minutes, make Ferris wheel 

riders of us all, lug us round and round

from number to number,

dice the time of our lives into tiny bits

until the bits are all we know

and the only question we care to ask is

"What time is it?"

- Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl

As the time approaches ever faster for me to depart my home, I think about Kindergarten and how this time seemed an eternity away. It seemed like an infinite circle as if my childhood would never end. 

But, it doesn't really have to. As John Green said, "some infinities are bigger than other infinities." Childhood is not lost when we get older.  To me, childhood is when we make mistakes to learn and grow. Yes, we are not really responsible for our actions,and that is the difference in adulthood. We become accountable. We learn: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. 

Right now, feel like a circle.  I like it.  It's not a square and doesn't have pointy edges.  It's perfectly rounded and goes around infinitely and right now in my life, anything is possible. I can accomplish anything, if I use my time wisely and don't procrastinate(: