Holding Back

5-12-2000. 22 Years Old. Lately I’ve been paying close attention to my thoughts and they all seem to revolve around the notion I held myself back in areas to not make others feel left out.  Now that my opportunities seem to have run dry and others are...

Jobless

5-10-2000.  The Start of Something New Journal.  22 Years Old.  Feelings of emptiness and loneliness seem to be plaguing my body more than ever.  What am I doing with my life and how am I contributing to it?  It seems like everyone around me is on their own trail of...

Moving On

4-27-00.  The Start of Something New Journal.  22 Years old.  I had a talk with a friend of mine yesterday about past girlfriends and what they are doing.  He asked me about one in particular, Amy, and if I still talk to her.  I informed him of her latest doings and...

Where’s Potential

4-23-00.  The Start of Something New Journal.  22 years old.  What is my potential?  If I’m not being utilized correctly then how can I find the answer to this question?  Going to work for simply a pay check is not my definition of potential and yet this was how...

Day Care

4-5-00.  The Start of Something New Journal.  22 years old.  I have a difficult decision to make here.  For the past 8 months I have worked in a day care trying to figure out what direction I want my life to be heading in, the field of psychology or something else.  I...

A Change Is Growing

3-7-00.  The start of Something New Journal.  22 years old.  I feel as if my life is on a painful replay.  I want to change.  I feel the change within me.  However, the change feels so far out of reach.  The weird thing is I feel something is holding me back,...

Sleep Choices

3-4-07  Self Study Book #1.  29 years old.  “As long as I continue to follow the reasoning of the past, the past will continue to follow.”  This quote came to me today as I was walking up the stairs in the late afternoon.  Poker night was last night and I...

Timing

2-27-00.  The Start of Something New.  22 years old.  Nothing seems to go the good way.  I tend to always entertain the worst case scenario.  I really believe that what you think about does come true and for me there is that doubt always lingering in the back of every...

A Conversation

2-15-00.  The Start of Something New Journal.  22 Years old.  If I was to die today and I had a chance to talk to my body, what would the conversation look like?  I think it would go like this: Soul: Why did you care so much and so long about how others viewed you?...

What She Meant

12-21-99.  The Start of Something New Journal.  22 Years Old.  A girlfriend allowed for me to express my feelings with the knowing that she would understand them.  And now that 3 years have gone by and I haven’t had a girlfriend, I cannot help but notice my...