Hello wonderful people!
Welcome to the first post from Fall Semester. Fall is the season of change, and oh, boy, have there been some changes in my life with the start of a new school year.
Haha... I got totally slammed. I fell off the horse of writing these blog posts and I've really missed them. But I am a stubborn soul and I’m not going to stop making these entries so take that busyness! This project is important to me, and if that means that I’m a little bit more pressed for time later in the week then so be it. I'm okay with that trade-off.
These past few weeks have reminded me that even though I want to be an all-knowing wizard with no restrictions on what I can learn and when, I am, in fact, still just a twenty-something year old college kid who has to manage his time and budget and energy wisely if I want to function well. It is always humbling to be reminded of my limitations. It always takes a few weeks for me to adjust to a new semester, especially coming out of my summer routine with all the extra time that I had then.
With all of that sudden extra weight on my shoulders, I feel like I stumbled on a lot of the good habits I was working on maintaining over the summer when a new wave of stress and obligation and commitment slammed into my life. I haven’t dropped them completely, but I’ve been less consistent and it’s taken much more effort to work them into my increasingly busy schedule.
But one of the great things about life is that when riptides or waves knock you down, it's not the end of the world. You can stand right back up again and keep moving forwards. Whatever happens, you can always dust yourself off and try again. In my case, that means that I can still write a brief blog post two weeks late even after being totally swamped by the waves of work and school and class. For you, I'm sure that getting back up will look a little different. I am also sure I’m not the only one who’s been knocked off of the horse I was trying to ride recently, and if that's you dear reader, yes, you, I invite you to get back on the horse and start riding again. The reins will still be waiting for you to pick them up again. They didn't go anywhere when you let them go.
In addition to that, I would like to get a second installment of “Restbringer” up on the site by the end of the month, and I’d like to have Part 2 of “The Dream Hunter” up here by the end of October. I am excited for you to read them! If I feel the need to spend more time writing on them than these blogs, I’ll make a heads-up post on here and on social media so that I don’t just vanish for two weeks again.
Till next time, much love and all the best! Go get back up and do something amazing this week. I would love to hear about what sorts of personal goals you're trying work on to ride the waves right now, and about how you’ve gotten back up recently if you've fallen out of the habit of working on that goal. I think it would be really cool to put an anonymous compilation of some of the personal goals readers are trying to work on up on this blog next week. Progress is more fun together after all, and I know we're all trying to get better at something. Send me an email at storiesbyezra@gmail.com with your goal and I'll add it to the list!
