pack your bags.

i’ve recently been inspired. and maybe it was the threat of a new year, or the realization that i’ve been spending way too much time thinking and stressing about things that don’t really matter in the grand scheme of life, or maybe it’s my brain yelling at my subconsious to exercise it before it dies completely, but i’ve been inspired. by books, by movies, art, websites, you name it. but it’s today, tonight, this night, that i am choosing to do something.

i used to keep blogs all throughout college, and i miss having that outlet for my stress, my feelings, my life. i miss readers. i miss the publicity. i miss when my dad used to email me back my own entries, commenting on my life, and when my mom used more exclamation points than usual in her IMs, when she found out i had quoted her, and wrote it on the blog for everyone to see.

when my good friend mika from college sent me the link to her blog, about her new life as a liberal 20 something college graduate living in israel, i got inspired to start writing about my own. my own life as a liberal-conservative 20 something year old struggling to come to grips with her new life in the harsh face of reality…..ok, ok, so i stole that line from almost famous, whatever. but honestly, it’s mainly about me, trying to find myself in what i think is one of the most transitional times of “growing up.”

so, i suppose, now that i know what’s out there. now that i’m not just another invincible college prick immune to the tragedies and the misgivings of life. now that i have been inspired, and have the option of taking that inspiration and doing something. now that i’m in it…

…now that i’ve met my fork in the road, do i take the beaten path or the road less traveled?