Today is my birthday. While this may seem like an odd day to start a blog, for me it is quite natural. On this day over the years I have been known to make ridiculous proclamations and demands. Throw last minute birthday celebrations. Have a huge hissy fit where I just sit in my room and cry. There are many ways to mark another year passing and I have certainly done a variety of them. This is more or less just another.
For me, it is often a day of reflecting on the journey thus far and a time to dream of the adventures yet to come. And to celebrate life in general, because, really, any day where you wake up is worth basking in a little. So here I am, now 26, and feeling a little stuck in life. Nothing to complain about, but not a whole lot to look forward to either. And I am planning to change that.
I woke up yesterday wanting to be able to say that I had achieved more, seen more and had more when I turned 26. And while it is too late to fix that regret – at least until I perfect my time machine- it is not too late to greet 27 knowing that I went out and did everything I could to develop a better life for myself across the board.
So, I started gathering challenges (more on the details of how later). Some bite sized, some more of a “mouth full”. Some familiar and easy to digest. Others scary or so far beyond my comfort zone that they will probably give me a little indigestion. I have about 100 challenges written on cards now. And I am hoping to gather another 50 or so along the way. What am I going to do with them? In the next 365 days I plan to complete them all. To feast on life and see how I grow. Some won’t take more than a few minutes; others will require a week or more of commitment. I have no qualms about overlapping opportunities and challenges. Life certainly doesn’t let me do things one at a time, so why should I cut myself slack.
I plan on carrying my cards with me as a reminder of the adventure I have started. Plus they will then be readily available when I want to draw a new one. I promise I will shuffle them often so I am as surprised as you are at what comes next. No cheating and no peeking.I am going to do my best to “act as if it were impossible to fail”[1]. Try new things and step out into the unknown with faith that I will be rewarded and supported. The title of this blog is a quote from one of my favorite books,Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. The URL is a reference to the fact that although I have tried to blend in or be more like everyone else, I am stuck being “impossibly me”, Sierra. Like it or lump it, I am here to stay.
I hope you will follow me on this journey; I could certainly use all the support I can get. I would love your words of encouragement along the way, but would truly adore your thoughts and stories. If I touch a nerve, let me know. Perhaps you will feel inspired by a couple of my challenges and try to take them on too. Feel free to join in. Let me know how it goes.
[1] Dorthea Brande
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