Intro

Since I moved here, everyone’s been asking me if I’m going to write a blog. There are a few problems with that. 1. I’ve been saying from day one that blogs are, for the most part, lame. No one wants to read your diary. However, my sister is a fourth grade teacher and she has a blog and I love reading it – it’s hilarious. 2. I don’t like talking about myself that much. Anyone that knows me, when they first hear this, laughs. I am quite a loquacious person (translation: I talk a looooot), but if you take the time to stop and listen (quite a challenge, I know), it’s usually not about me. It’s about events, it’s about things that I think are interesting, it’s about people I interact with, it’s about things going on around me. Really, when it comes down to it, I’m just not that interesting. Which leads me to point 3. I’m not super funny/smart/stylish/healthy, etc. which is what blogs are supposed to be for: people with knowledge or advice that others don’t readily have available.

I realized, however, that despite all of this, my new phase of life has dropped a particularly interesting set of circumstances into my lap so it would be a disservice to those who have exerted so much effort to get me here not to commemorate it in some way. But how? Well, part of my reason for moving here was to better myself. For a while, I was thinking that I’d moved here to ‘start over.’ But that would be stupid. I have a lifetime of memories, stories, experiences, loved ones, an lessons learned that it would be foolish to try to walk away from. Despite whatever appeal starting over may have, I am still the same person with the same gifts and talents, weaknesses and demons. I still have the most amazing family in the world who has carried me through without ever asking anything in return.

It dawned on me one day as I was reading a book, then, what I should write about. People that inspire me. If you have spent any amount of time with me you’ve heard me say more than once “I want to be her/him.” And even more frequently, I talk about attributes or talents of people that I’m jealous of. When it comes down to it, though, I don’t really want to ‘be them,’ and I’m not really jealous. This is all my way of expressing admiration and how much I admire these people. So, in the hopes of improving myself and becoming a fabulous combination of all the wonderful people that I hear about and know, this is my blog.

I don’t really know what format it will take yet, it will probably different from day to day. Many times I find inspiration in books I’m reading. And since the author has already said it in a way that I found inspirational, I may just quote the book. I might give background, or I might just tell a quick anecdote.  Who knows?  Now that I’ve actually begun writing this blog, I realize it will not always be about other people. Sometimes I might just put in good quotes, or interesting anecdotes about Indonesia living… this thing might take on a mind of its own. I also really suck at endings so sometimes these entries  may seem to come to a very abrupt halt. No use dragging things out, right?

 I will also include a song recommendation in every entry. This will not have anything to do with the person I’m talking about, I am just a music addict and like nothing more than introducing people to awesome music that will make them happy. So without further ado, please read on and I hope that you are as inspired as I am.