This is still here?

I figured by now these entries would have long been wiped away. It's nice to see that they are still here.

Before I go any further, I would like to shout out the Bad Pitch blog for bringing me back. I have been reading the blog for sometime, but adding a comment today provided me the inspiration to log back in- a necessary evil to making a comment. I would also like to thank my boy Straight Shooter and is lovely wife for providing the other half of the returning inspiration. I believe they were the only two loyal readers I had, but that would be my fault. Inconsistency and hesitancy are a killer combination in the blogsphere (do people even say that anymore?). The inconsistency is pretty self-explanatory, whereas the hesitancy takes a little more [Scarface]'splainin[/Scarface].

Those that know me, know that I am not the 'in your face' type. The majority of my first entries were me typing to myself. And, perhaps, the occasional person who stumbled onto the page. Other than those two people -one of them being me in the third person- there was no one else, and I liked it. Then, one day I put the link in the siggy of my email. I think it was there for a month before someone asked me about it. From there, I think I hit my peak by having 10 people visit in one day.

I think the question that most of them had then and probably still have now is, 'why'? It's simple, I liked the anonymity. I liked being one of millions that had a voice, even if I was the only one to hear it. Who doesn't like a good echo every now and again? The blog also created an avenue for me to practice my writing skills.

It's funny, back in my middle college years I sat in an Intro to Journalism class and hated every minute of it. I wanted to "do" PR, so what does knowing how to write a story have to do with it? That was the question I quietly asked myself. Now eight years after graduating, I realize the answer is simple: EVERYTHING. It's crazy how simple things seem in hindsight. I often ask myself and my friends, "How could I/we be so dumb? The answer was always right in front of us. How did we not see it?" Maybe it's the simple difference between being smart and being a genius. Maybe the geniuses figure it out on the spot, while the smart, intelligent and the hope-to-be's figure it out down the line.

Getting back to the point, what I have come to find out about myself is I love to write. And according to others, I do it pretty well. Being my biggest critic, the things that people seem to love are the things I seem to hate the most. I'm sure I'm not the first nor will I be the last, but it's how I feel. So, I hope that the fire that inspired me way back when has now been officially re-ignited by the aforementioned sources. And maybe this time, I'll share it with the masses. Who knows; that's a thought for another day. It just feels good to be "back". For all I know, this could be my only offering to the world that doesn't exist within my little space on Earth.

A friend of mine unexpectantly lost a friend today. You never know when that day will come, so I hope whoever reads this, lives their life to the fullest each day. I say I will and very seldomly do. That being said, I will end it here. I have some things I need to do before the day ends and HOPEFULLY tomorrow begins.