PREFACE
If you would have asked me a year go how I thought my life would change, I would have listed off a bunch of regular, mundane changes. You know, the kind of changes that people say they'll make on New Year's Eve, but that never happen.
I probably would have said that I and my mother would have had a better relationship. That I had gotten into my first fist fight with some girl terrorizing me or Jess. That I lost weight, or that my looks changed. That I stopped criticizing myself so much, and finally looked through the crap and saw the world as half full, instead of half empty.
There are some changes, though, that I would have laughed at if you would have brought them up.
Like, for example, the fact that I was going to have so many near death experiences, that people would think that I tried to put myself in harm's way.
If you would have also told me that someone that I had never spoken more than a few words to suddenly had an interest in me that was so intense and so deep that he could make my head spin, I wouldn't have believed you. If you would have told me that said someone and my best friends would hate each other so intensely that it resorted to physical violence, I probably wouldn't have believed you either.
But, hey.
There were a lot of unbelievable things that happened this past year. That's part of the reason that I'm writing this; to keep myself from going insane with thinking that they never happened. I'm going to let you in on my little world, and all of the craziness within.
Try to keep up.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change- this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton