Update.

Last week I took the week off. I didn’t run. I didn’t blog. I barely went to class and I wouldn’t have gone to work if I could afford it. I suppose I was depressed, though at the time I didn’t realize it. Sometimes I feel like everything is happening too fast and not fast enough all at once and it just builds and builds. I suppose a lot of members of my generation feel this way.

There is a group I am part of online called “20 Something Bloggers.” Through this group I have found other blogs to read. These people are all very different than myself and from each other but we are bound together by our compulsion to write and by the generation we belong to. We are a generation marked by the 1/4 Life Crisis, that tumultuous time when you are trying to hold on to the past and transition into the future. I am constantly asking myself “What am I going to do with my life?” “Where am I going?” “Who am I?.” All these questions I ask and answer and re-ask. I am in a sort of limbo and I think a lot of my peers feel the same way.

Our generation was in high school when blogging became big. For me it is not about sounding like a great writer or being really funny. Those things are great when I can achieve them but it is more a kind of therapy. Here I can write down a few of the million or so things that run through my head each day. It helps me sort things out. Of course not everything gets put here. Some stays in my head and some is left to short stories or my other journals but what does go here is just as important to me as anything else. I encourage anyone having these problems to write stuff down. Not only does it help sort things out but it is a chronicle of your life. It’s been too long since I let things out here. Expect many more in the next few days.