I'm a dreamer.

I want to blog more often, but sometimes I feel I have nothing interesting to say. I don't want to write a boring blog listing off the things I did today, but I want to find the interesting things that would make a good story, or the things that make my life seem more intriguing than I feel it actually is. A lot of interesting things do happen, and often I fail to write them down because in a way I feel that reading about my life would be such a bore, but that is probably how everyone feels at times. There are times when we are so excited about something that we feel the desire to share it with the world, but then there are those in between times when life is just a conglomeration of working, eating, sleeping and then repeating.

I've been thinking a lot about the future lately. I guess that's what happens when you've just graduated from college and are living at home and have one thousand possibilities in front of you. Or maybe only one hundred with the economy and unemployment rate the way they are. I still want an exciting future though. I want a job that is new everyday, that will keep me learning for the rest of my life. I think that's part of the reason I studied Journalism. I will always have to keep reading, researching, asking questions, and opening my eyes to worlds that I never would have seen if it weren't for the desire to explore that world and share it with others.

I am a huge people lover. I love meeting and talking to people, and not to sound cocky, but I have a strange something (I suppose you could call it a gift) of getting people to open up to me. People feel they can trust me, and the truth is they can. I don't have any intentions of ruining peoples lives to obtain success. That's not what I'm about. It's funny though, because I've had random strangers divulge their deepest secrets to me when I am just sitting there next to them minding my own business.

All this to say, I just started reading the book, The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose, and so far in only the first chapter, it has made me laugh out loud more than once. This book caught my attention, because of the way Roose wanted to place himself in a culture unfamiliar to himself and learn about that culture and write a book about it in away that could be critical without being demeaning. The idea behind this book kind of exemplifies the way that I want to live my life. I want to get to know people, hear their stories and share their stories, without seeking to bring the other person down in order to bring myself up. All I want is to get to know what people are really about; what makes them smile, cry, laugh, shout, or run. What inspires them, and what gets them through the day? Their source of motivation.

I long to learn and to love. To accept and to share. I want to be inspired, and be an inspiration.