I really miss the days of Xanga. Boy, that was such an excellent outlet for me, and now it feels as though I cannot write in this thing as candidly as I could on Xanga. Xanga wasn’t serious. It wasn’t a big deal. Just friends read it, and people on the Web couldn’t access it via google. No biggie whatsoever. No expectations.
Sigh.
Journalisming, as I like to call it, is hard. Proving to be harder than I thought. What happened to my writing skills? Did I grow out of them? Or did my millions of college term papers grind them out of me?
Without really realizing it, I think I have started to keep a tab of my life regrets. This doesn’t really coincide with how I have chosen to live my life, which is without much of a plan. And I don’t have many regrets, just two that I really can look back on and honestly wish I had done differently. One, really, to be honest. And I can go on and say I don’t regret anything til I’m blue in the face, but that doesn’t erase this slowly-forming list in my head. And it doesn’t make me not afraid of making more mistakes.
I really want to go swimming. I want to feel cold salt water drowning every inch of my body, and I want to move in it, slowly, twisting and feeling it. For now, a bath will have to do.
2 responses so far ↓
jack2sisters // February 16, 2009 at 10:29 am |
Can you not make this page private?? I thought WordPress had privacy settings. Anyway, I am totally with you on swimming…I would LOVE to go swimming!! But, not with my kids….just with my husband.
Brooke's Father-in-Law // February 17, 2009 at 12:19 pm |
It is not courteous “journalisming” to refer to two regrets, and then not tell us what they are. You’re smart to choose not to dwell on regrets. Fix the ones you can, and forget the rest (except to keep from repeating them.) Stick with my boy, Sam, and I don’t think you’ll have many.