New Year's Resolutions....Typical

It has been on my mind to start writing again. I used to write fairly frequently. I needed to write like I needed to breath. It was my way of expressing myself, my way of getting my feelings out of my head to make sense of anything. Heck, I even went to college to get a pretty certificate that says I can write for a living!

But then, life happens.

I don't want to say "the real world" happened. The real world began happening the second we were born. To say that everything we experienced before college graduation was not "real" is a joke. No, when "life happens," that's when your perfectly laid-out plans get pushed out of the way and your mindset gets a fine tuning. I found myself struggling to get a job as a writer or photographer. I had to stop writing for pleasure and start doing job searches, interviews, follow-ups, dealing with rejection....all the while working several part-time jobs and trying to maintain some kind of a social life.

THAT life happened.

Now that I finally have time to MAKE time for myself, I realized how much I miss actually being creative (there are only so many ways that you can get creative doing retail work or being employed at an ER before you get the pink slip!). So here is my new year's resolution to myself: bring back that high school girl who dreamed big and carried a fresh pen.

Here goes...!!

ps: The title for the blog comes from one of my favorite Bible verses from high school:
2 Corinthians 4:7-10 - But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show us that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.