It's August already people. Where has the time gone? I have indeed neglected this blog for a while, so please forgive me? We can share a cyber hug and a peck on the cheek if that's okay with you. I've neglected blogging and some other things perhaps, because I feel kind of
confused about well, everything. Now I know, this blog is supposed to be positive and it is! Don't worry. I will graciously provide the goodies later on. But right now, I feel it is important to express how one is truly feeling and I honestly feel the pressures of young adulthood getting to me. The decisions, the responsibilities...ya feel me? For instance, people will ask me why I haven't gotten my license or what it is I am planning to do as a career once I finish school? I will say that some of these questions are far-fetched, but are nonetheless a part of this game we call life. But the path and pace for everyone is truly different. In spite of this, I guess I thought I would have everything figured out by now.
I want to be swift and purposeful and have it all together, but it doesn't seem that way at all right now. When you look on social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram, on the surface, everyone looks as if they seem to have life all figured out. But what about the behind the scenes? What about the grind, the contemplation, the moments of frustration that people do not see? These are all real. However, I am a fighter and I'll figure everything out slowly but surely. Even as a writer, I will admit that I feel lost. I am in school for writing, but the actual title of a "writer" seems distant to me. Although despite that feeling here I am in front of my computer screen writing, because I refuse to give up and just throw in the towel and say "Life, take me as you will." I am now realizing that "Bang Ups and Hang Ups" push us beyond our limits. They force us to straighten out and really fight back when we are feeling defeated. Up is all we got people and we have to fight everyday to stay there and reach the stars despite how we may be feeling. The title of this blog post is inspired by Dr. Seuss's "Oh the Places You'll Go" and it does indeed discuss the bang ups and hang ups of life. He says, "You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear toward a most useless place, The Waiting Place..." The Waiting Place is real indeed and is experienced by us all. It's uncomfortable and a little shaky. However, Dr. Seuss provides us with the encouragement that this too shall pass and is only a stepping stone to greatness. "Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed...Kid, you'll move mountains."
