The Road Ahead
Thanks to a bit of birthday money from my mother, I have bought myself a nice, new journal to record the next chapter of my life in. I would normally wait until the actual day of my birthday to break in a birthday journal, especially since I still have room in my old journal, but I have to work on my birthday and with a birthday pub crawl planned for afterwards there won't be a lot of time for journaling. So the first of the month is the next best thing to satisfy my strange desire for starting journals on some temporal milestone.
As my thirty-eighth year of life outside the womb draws to an end, I am not sure how I feel about how it went. Obviously, it started out pretty shit with the split with Brenda and having to start over from damn near scratch. Breaking my foot sucked pretty hard too. Losing my side job also goes pretty solidly in the bad column. Other than those three things, though, I have been doing well and am even finding bright sides to all the bad things. I have learned a lot this past year that I probably would not have if not for things being so thoroughly shaken up in my life. Things that will help a lot in my future.
I plan to do the best I can to move forward towards my goals this year. More writing. More photography. More searching for people with similar beliefs to share my goal of an art focused commune. More responsible management of my money. More saving money. More of anything that will help facilitate my ultimate life goal of the art commune.
I know things are about to get harder. I hope that I don't have to wait too long to see some kind of pay off. I don't mind hard if I am rewarded. It is when I bust my ass with nothing to show that I feel the temptation to quit. Not that I ever will.