Beginnings are always hard. Even in school when I had to write a paper, I always wrote the beginning part last. I can’t go all the way back to the beginning of my life, or when it was I really felt like I started living, but I hope this blog will help me reflect on the various aspects in my life so my future beginnings aren’t so hard to do.
As of now, I am a mid-twenty-something finding my path back to normalcy. I lost myself for a while and it’s time I found my way back. My best little pal and partner in crime, is my poodle, Lucy, whom my life has revolved around for the last five years and is the namesake of this blog. Once again in our lives, it’s just going to be the two of us (a beginning I am familiar with, but still finding it hard to recreate). She and I have always been a team, and although some may see her as just a dog, she is so much more than that to me. I have always had a love of animals, but she has been my constant through thick and thin, and being able to care for another being, knowing that there is someone depending on you even when you are at your worst, forces you to carry on. It’s no wonder people have dogs for therapy purposes; the excitement she expresses everyday when I come home to her from work, makes me smile a little bit bigger and warms my heart just a little bit more.
I don’t know where the direction of this blog will go, truly. I’ve never had a blog before so after reading about the “do’s and don’t’s,” I know that the same theme should be maintained across posts. However, in experiencing this journey I hope to get back to myself, the things that are important to me, and sharing the lessons I have learned throughout my short lifetime. I may be young yet, but the lessons I’ve learned thus far are crucial in my continuing development in this life, and if I can share those with others, maybe they won’t have such puzzled looks on their faces, or maybe they’ll have a direction in which to go toward, when things don’t go as planned.
I do and do not look forward to this new beginning, as I hate change and don’t deal with it well, but I know I have no choice but to continue my life positively and I whole-heartedly owe it to myself to carry on with strength and an open mind.
So as much as I do not want to start over, I have to. I’m not giving up.
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