The beginning of the middle.

Today is Ground Hog's day, and as significant as that may be for some people, today marks a much more important milestone for me. Today is my first day being 25 years old. Something my mom always told me was that "when you turn 25, everything changes." For me, things have been changing for a while and turning 25 only propels the momentum. Among many commitments I've made to myself about being 25, I've decided to start a blog. Since the last blog I wrote had a decent following and mostly positive feedback, while being about my bowel movements and bodily fluids, I figured I've got a good shot at keeping people engaged. However, the intent of this blog is multi-fold. As I experience incredible growth and awakening, I feel compelled and almost responsible for sharing this. Not because I have all the answers, in fact quite the contrary; the further along this journey I go, the more curious I become. This blog is also not intended to be a story with a beginning and an end. I'm starting now, only because today felt like the right day to begin. I'm right smack in the middle of my story and have no idea when it will end. There are no monumental things happening to me, other than life. And to me, that is exciting in and of itself.

My hope in writing this is to inspire you. To ignite within you the light of life we are all entitled to. What I'm realizing, and what I want to share with you, is that life is what we decide to create for ourselves. We have a power over our lives that is incredible. Waking up in the morning, being filled with happiness and peace is a way we all deserve to wake up. Going to bed feeling fulfilled and content is a way we all deserve to fall asleep. We create our own suffering, and as dismal as that sounds it's actually great news!! By creating our own suffering, we can also dissolve that suffering by changing how we live. I'll be honest with you (I promise to be honest with you this entire journey) every once in a while a tiny voice speaks up in my mind. It says, "are you sure about all of this? What if you're wrong, and what if this IS what it's all about?" I acknowledge that voice of doubt and kindly tell it to go away. The point is we have a choice. We have a choice about how we live. Millions of choices, actually! We are so lucky about how much choice we have. We can choose weather to walk or drive. Recycle or throw it away. Smile or just walk by. Honk your horn or refrain. Go to bed or stay awake. Eat this or eat that. Think about how many decisions you make in your life. Soup or salad? Go to the gym or go home and watch The Bachelor? Call him or don't call him? And now, the realization that perhaps by making different decisions, we can actually change the way we feel. Change the course we are on. Change the destination. Change our destiny. We all have our own personal legends. We all have an incredible purpose for being here. That purpose is to reach complete self-realization and enlightenment. I say that with the utmost confidence. However, in order to fulfill that purpose, that legend., we must be honest with ourselves. We must slow down, and take a look inward. That is where you will find your answers. not from me, and not from this blog. But hopefully, this piece of work will inspire you to seek out those answers. I hope you will join me on this journey. We can support each other through times of doubt and charge each other up in times of enlightenment. We can evoke in ourselves and in each other the insatiable zest for life and unconditional love for, well, everything. So chew on this a while. Perhaps something has stirred inside of you. Maybe you'll visit this blog again, because just maybe a part of you knows all of this is true. So I hope we meet again here.

It's time to wake up.