A New Chapter

Today is the fifth day of a new year. Lately I've been thinking about how life, or even days, can be split into multiply chapters. With this in mind i feel like my return to Santa Cruz yesterday marked the fresh begin of a new chapter.

It's hard to determine what the title of this new chapter will be, or even how long it will be... I just feel like my life has taken a huge turn. I think what's really changed is how I want to deal with other people. As selfish as this seems to me I want to start looking out for the things that make me happy instead of looking to please other before myself. This may seem obvious, but until now I don't think i was living in this way at all. Another goal I am try to achieve is to speak in less abstractions. I want to speak clearly and to the point, I feel like this will clear up a lot of the miscommunications that occur on a daily basis. The last thing that i want to try is to take advantage of all the incredible opportunities that are available to people of my age. For example I am really interested in participating in an Outward Bound program which would allow me to go backpacking for a majority of the summer.

Looking back on what i consider the previous chapter of my life, I've realized that i wasn't very happy... But as i was discussing this with a friend he stated "Life has a healing effect." I found this to be a very profound thought. Often it seems that the world is too heavy and is trying to depress me. I guess what this quote reminded me of is that all things pass with time and today's problem are usually solved by tomorrow.