just the chance that maybe we'll find better days
So, it's the end of the year.
It's seemed really scattered to me, to be honest. Lots of ups and downs, lots of goods and bads. I don't thing that any one of them outweighs the others, and I don't think that it's a bad thing.
I guess if there's one thing that this year is marked by, it's cosplay. I first decided to dress up as a character amongst a bunch of other people in January a year ago, I think, and I first did so in February. I don't think that I ever really dreamed that I would do this, but it has been a truly rewarding experience. I have met some lovely people who I never would have met through this, and I value and treasure every one of them for what they mean to me personally. I've also learned a thousand new skills, which in the coming year I hope to put to much better use.
I don't know where I'll go with this. Right now, I'm enjoying it so much - much more than I ever expected. Where I'll be with it in a year? Well, who knows. I think that I am a better person, for all of the new friends I have made and all of the new things I have learned - not least of which is the ability to look and be ridiculous in the midst of people I have only just met, but soon come to love dearly. I have never been a very open person, least of all with people I have never met before, and I think that the ability to just be my ridiculous, over-excitable, space-cadet self around others is quite the treasure in itself.
Closer to my heart, this year also heralded the return of my muse. I'm so glad to be able to write again, when I scarce could before. It's been difficult. I'm not sure that I like most of what I wrote, but then, I seldom do. But I managed to finish things, and start others, and that is an accomplishment in itself, I think. I'm sitting on the brink of two new and wholly original stories, which I won't talk about much yet. One is a fantasy and the other is sort-of, as well. I hope that they come to fruition, or at least that I learn something from attempting to craft them.
As for my personal, less-nerdy life (haha), I'm not going to talk about it much here. It is, as I said, filled with many ups and downs and goods and bads, and I think that maybe I stand on the brink of something new in my life. I'm still in the process of figuring out me, as you might say. Maybe that will be my project for the new year - though its successes will, in all likelihood, vary. I've found a lot, and learned a lot, already, but definitely not all.
Well, here's to 2011, and the awesomest birthday ever! (I still need to figure out what to do for that one.)
It's seemed really scattered to me, to be honest. Lots of ups and downs, lots of goods and bads. I don't thing that any one of them outweighs the others, and I don't think that it's a bad thing.
I guess if there's one thing that this year is marked by, it's cosplay. I first decided to dress up as a character amongst a bunch of other people in January a year ago, I think, and I first did so in February. I don't think that I ever really dreamed that I would do this, but it has been a truly rewarding experience. I have met some lovely people who I never would have met through this, and I value and treasure every one of them for what they mean to me personally. I've also learned a thousand new skills, which in the coming year I hope to put to much better use.
I don't know where I'll go with this. Right now, I'm enjoying it so much - much more than I ever expected. Where I'll be with it in a year? Well, who knows. I think that I am a better person, for all of the new friends I have made and all of the new things I have learned - not least of which is the ability to look and be ridiculous in the midst of people I have only just met, but soon come to love dearly. I have never been a very open person, least of all with people I have never met before, and I think that the ability to just be my ridiculous, over-excitable, space-cadet self around others is quite the treasure in itself.
Closer to my heart, this year also heralded the return of my muse. I'm so glad to be able to write again, when I scarce could before. It's been difficult. I'm not sure that I like most of what I wrote, but then, I seldom do. But I managed to finish things, and start others, and that is an accomplishment in itself, I think. I'm sitting on the brink of two new and wholly original stories, which I won't talk about much yet. One is a fantasy and the other is sort-of, as well. I hope that they come to fruition, or at least that I learn something from attempting to craft them.
As for my personal, less-nerdy life (haha), I'm not going to talk about it much here. It is, as I said, filled with many ups and downs and goods and bads, and I think that maybe I stand on the brink of something new in my life. I'm still in the process of figuring out me, as you might say. Maybe that will be my project for the new year - though its successes will, in all likelihood, vary. I've found a lot, and learned a lot, already, but definitely not all.
Well, here's to 2011, and the awesomest birthday ever! (I still need to figure out what to do for that one.)