Blogging = ?

So.

This blog is a spur of the moment idea that bloomed from a conversation I just had with a friend about becoming "stuck" even when you've got some dreams. Aspirations that are put on hold due to any number of reasons: routine, comfort, lack of drive, doing what generations before has have done but That Has Worked Out So It Must Be Okay.

Specifically, we were talking about the idea of going to bars as a young twenty somethings. I disagree with the concept of it, because I feel it's a waste of life and experience to do the same thing that millions of facebook pictures tell you that millions of other people do. He claims that what's different in his case is that he's enjoying it as a place holder until he moves on. I argue that's how it originally got it's start, probably.

I brought up the "allegory of the cave" and how we should feel like the enlightened soul released and recaptured. Me especially, he's still got the city at his fingertips. Me, I've gone to school in a major city, and held internships in another, only to return home and live with my parents. It's now a year since I've returned, and I have no "real" job and the year has not made me any closer to what I want to do. Still, I refuse to just sink in to whatever else other people are doing at my age. The things that get them stuck into the lives that their parents had before them. I'm not saying their parents are terrible or a waste, I'm just saying just because they did it doesn't mean you have to. You don't have to have the same life as them, even accidentally.

So I feel stuck, but less stuck. I'm not official yet, and I won't be. And I won't let my friend back in Philly be either. I will grab him by the collar when my time comes, and drag him out of obscurity.

At least I hope to not be obscure for so long. So much is up in the air when you want to be a writer.

So I start this blog. I will be blogging like countless others, perhaps a new generation's way of becoming stuck.

Could I say stuck a little more?

Okay. Down to specifics.

This Blog:

Mainly about the journey of writing and the observations that flow forth from wanting to be a maker-upper for a living.

Sometimes about ideas and pontifications.

Mostly about my mind.

Hopefully a little about yours.

I'll update again eventually. I have a hard time doing things without a deadline, so we'll see how long this lasts. My other blog didn't last very long and degenerated into a place where I could post sophomoric pictures and laugh at them. I also have a wonderful girlfriend that I love, and she thankfully takes up time, and that time spent could never ever be a waste. She makes being stuck not so bad, even if she's a few hours away.

BLOGGING = SERIOUS BUSINESS.