perspective

how great is it to talk to someone with a different view on a situation. it is so affirming to have someone give their opinion, and realize that maybe you aren't so crazy after all.


my head is swimming with potentials.


last night, i couldn't sleep because there were so many opportunities on my mind. i cannot help but think that this is an amazing time of life: the things that keep me up are not stressors, instead they are visions of a sweet future.

maybe this makes no sense, but maybe i just haven't reached the comprehensible state yet...

serving

I am convinced that it is the little things that make all of the difference in life. It is the people who help you with an unexciting task, who share their snacks, or their apartment, that make life great.

It is not about grand gestures, rather the everyday moments that change the whole situation.

After spending time with these people, I wonder who I was without them. They are the ones that make me better simply because I want to imitate their giving.

Ultimately, who are any of us without friends? Is there true life without them? I doubt it...

busy

I am supposed to have so much free time right now... and yet somehow my life seems less busy when I am actually taking classes. There is neevr enough time for all of the life that I want to live. How unfortunate!

If I can just pull it all together, then I can go home for the weekend. What a relief!

relationships

There are so many things to be said, and so many things that have already been said.

So here is the extremely brief summarization of my current thoughts.

No matter how great the distance, or the time between communication, the people that I share relationships with can expect three things.

one. that i love them.

two. that i am here for them, whenever.

three. that i will do whatever i can to meet any need that they share with me.

Those three things are true of every relationship in my life. Some may balk at my use of the word love, so here goes the explanation. Regardless of depth, I love you because Christ loves you and I'm here to share that love. There are some people closer than others as things naturally progress, thus I may love on a personal level as well, but underneath it all is the basis of the love that I have been shown.


This is no great manifesto, simply a reaction to the various thoughts that I have heard about types of relationships and their dynamics.

dtr

i hate the dtr.

It is painful, awkward, and emotionally costly. It is also necessary.

The complexities of a person are amazing. The way we grew up, the people we call family, the environment in which we are comfortable, the facets of our personalities, these are the things that make and break relationships.

This is not about chemistry... or compatability... This is about how two people can seemingly have everything in line, and still miss it.

Miss it entirely. Two people that simply grew up in different areas, with opposite family relationships, who are most comfortable in varying environments with complementary, but separate personalities... This is how they do not get together.

starting

january is the perfect time to begin.

time to begin new habits, new relationships... new journeys.


but for now, new blogs.

this blog is to be filled with the rantings, ravings, and basic thoughts of a vagabond.

lines from someone on the journey. someone discovering, growing, and changing through the experiences of travel.

lines from a vagabond.