List of Things

It's been awhile since I've blogged, officially. I've been doing the Tumblr thing and kind of fell off the whole blogging for myself.

I'm trying to start accomplishing things more. Delve into the idea of making lists and ticking the things off of them. Like a blog, for instance. I've had many in the past: xanga, bebo, etc. All those blog sites that it seemed everyone had. We all made them our personal diaries and basically confessed our souls to them, and that's not what I am hoping to do on this. I'm just hoping to get my lists out there. The accomplishments that I achieve, that way when I get down in one of my "everyone seems to be doing great things in their life and I am still stuck" type moods, I'll have a place to see all the things that I have achieved in life. (Phew! That was a run on sentence!)

This idea came fresh in my mind yesterday when I saw someone from high school that I haven't seen in awhile. Someone that I used to be really good friends with and we both went our separate ways, like you do. He seemed to have his life together, figured out in a way. He had just come back from abroad for studying there for a year. He had an internship lined up over the summer. He had a girlfriend. He was almost done with school and ready to graduate.

As he is telling me these things, I'm slowly processing the things I have done and can't seem to come up with any. Yes, we all compare ourselves to the others around us, and it's an automatic type of thing. It happens. It's not as if we think we are better than the other person, but we want to seem as accomplished as them. Because I was getting down on myself, I compiled a list of things that I have done so far in life that I am proud of:

1. I have a job that overpays me and most college students would kill to have.
2. I have been to Europe twice and paid for both trips by myself.
3. I paid the first two years of my college in full.
4. I paid off my car by the time I was 18.
5. I go to a private university that is extremely hard to get into.
6. One of my short stories has been read by one of my favorite writers, and she told me she loved it.
7. I'm moving to London at the end of August.


That's my list thus far. What's yours? I will be adding more as the year goes off, and will definitely be ticking more things off my list as I go abroad.

Until next time.