Future Topics?

I catch myself thinking all the time. I'm an introvert, so thinking is what I do. I've thought of various topics I would like to blog about, so I thought it would be a good idea to list them. Then, I'm able to refer back to this page when I'm trying to find a topic to blog about. I'll also update this page as new topics come to mind, and I'll cross topics off my list after I've written about them.

Topics:   

• iOS vs. Android
• My favorite:
• books
• tv shows
• celebrities
• recipes
• websites
• mobile apps
• Gifts I Hated as a Child But Love Now
• Social Media and Productivity
• My opinions on:
• fanfiction 
• education

I'll add more topics as they come to mind. If you have suggestions, please let me know in the comments! 

"I'm Feeling 22" - But What Does 22 Feel Like?

According to my birth certificate, today, January 9, 2014, is my 22nd birthday. Yet, it feels just like yesterday I was eleven and in fifth grade. Where has the time gone? So much has happened in the last eleven years, but yet I feel like I've accomplished so little.

I mean, everything from the time I was born up until about last May was laid out for me. I knew that I would go to high school and graduate. I knew that I would then go to college. Although I often stressed about my grades, I wasn't the person who worried if I would actually graduate. I know there are so many people out there who don't know if they'll be able to pass. They don't know if they'll actually graduate, but I wasn't one of those people. I was determined to do whatever it took to get my degree. When I was in school, my primary focus was schoolwork. I was the student who completed every assignment with the intention to get an A. I didn't strive to just pass, I aimed for excellence.

Now, I'm not in school, and my future is an open book.  I'm twenty-two years old now. My twenties are already 20% over with. I find myself wondering: where do I want to be in another eight years when I turn thirty? I'm not an overly social person, and it's not easy for me to meet people. The funny thing is I'm not all that shy, either. I just often don't know what to say to people, and when I do, I find myself talking too much and I always feel like I'm annoying people, so I find it easier just not to talk.

Because of this, I live very much inside my head. I love reading. I love thought-provoking books, and I love to learn. My dream in life has always been to publish a novel. I've spent a vast majority of my time since I was nine years old plotting stories and writing stories. Recently I've become fascinated with television scripts, though, and I've thought about how fun it would be to become a screenwriter.

I know the only way I can become a writer is by writing, and unfortunately, my thoughts can't write themselves. In order for something to happen, you need to take action. The universe won't make something happen for you. There are two types of people in this world: the type that sit around and dream, and the type that actually make their dreams a reality. You don't want to be the first type of person, because then you'll grow old and be full of regrets. My worst fear is that's who I'll become if I don't take action soon, and I don't want to be that person.

So, where do I want to be in eight years? I would love to be working on a television set, writing television script. I would also like to have at least one published book. Right now all of that seems so impossible, but I know if I set my mind to it, I can do anything. Wanting to do something isn't enough. However, I need to figure out how I'm going to get there first. If anyone has any insight, please let me know. 

Let's Start the New Year out Right--by Blogging!

"I'm going to do it for real this time--I'm going to blog regularly!"

Happy January 3rd! It's not the first time the thought has crossed my mind. In fact, I've told myself countless times that I'm going to start blogging on a regular basis. Blogging on a regular basis is just one of the many items on my Bucket List. Now, what's a regular basis? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? I would like to commit myself to blogging at least once a week, if not more. It can't be that hard, right?

After all, I've only tried this how many times before? I'm not even sure, because I can't remember the usernames and passwords to all the blog accounts I've started on various websites.

Besides, blogging is like keeping a diary. I've had two diaries/journals in my life. One, I started when I was nine, but I ripped it up because I was so humiliated by what I wrote and I was terrified my mother would find it. I look back now and realize how silly I was then, though. Whatever I wrote couldn't possibly be that embarrassing and horrifying, right? I guess the world will never know.

The second diary (I renamed it "journal" when I was older) was started when I was thirteen, after I had read The Diary of Anne Frank. I thought it would be cool if something like the Holocaust happened during my lifetime and then people came across my diary after I was dead. (Okay, that sounds really terrible,  because it would NOT be cool if something like the Holocaust happened again. There was nothing cool about it). Nonetheless, I wanted my future children and grandchildren to have something to laugh at (assuming they exist, because at the rate I'm going now, they won't).

Honestly, I just love writing. I love going back and reading what I wrote when I was younger, no matter how humiliating it is. It's exciting to see how much I've grown over the years, so why not blog? After all, I do think--a lot. I have so many thoughts that I don't know what to do with them all, so I ought to write them all down and share them with the world (assuming anyone cares to read them. If they don't, at least I'll be able to entertain myself in a year or five or ten).

So here it is. My first blog post of 2014. If I don't write before next Friday, there's a chance this blog has joined all my other blogs in Blogger Graveyard.

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