The Beginning

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."  -Mel Brooks

I am twenty-one.  One of my biggest fears is growing old and realizing that I haven't done anything with my life, of waking up and saying, "How did I let my life pass me?  Why didn't I really live my life?"  I am part of a generation that is constantly connected to technology.  We are always on the computer, watching television, playing videogames, etc.  Like many others, I know I am one of those people who just stares at the computer when I'm bored, not really doing anything to fix my boredom, constantly refreshing Facebook hoping for something interesting to happen.  I'm not satisfied with that.

In my freshman year of high school, my Health teacher, Ms. Mickey, assigned my class project options that would illustrate who we are.  I chose to write a list of 100 life goals.  It wasn't an easy assignment.  While I could have just made up goals, I really wanted to think about what I wanted out of life, no matter how impossible it may seem.  While I have since lost that original list, I have continued to focus on goals that I really want to reach in my lifetime, and made a second list of these goals a few years ago.

I would like to use this blog to record my goals and to write about achieving them.  It is my hope that, in doing this, it will help me be more motivated and will keep them in mind.