The Penultimate

The end of the year is already less than 48 hours away. Can you believe it? It seems like just a few weeks ago we were ringing in 2011 ... and now we're getting ready for 2012. Insane.

With the end of 2011 amongst us brings the end of this blog. 350 Posts later & 4 years of writing on this blog (and 2 more writing on my previous, more personal, blog) it's kinda strange that I won't be doing it anymore. As I said in a earlier post, I don't find the beauty and intimacy of writing on an online journal the way I do with a handwritten one. I've started writing in a leather bound notebook and it's been absolutely wonderful. In that book I can write everything out, no holding back whatsoever. With an online journal I run the risk of someone I know stumbling upon it and finding things out I probably don't want them to know about me; and if I'm going to write in a journal, it should be 100% honest and 100% me in the writings. I hold myself back too much with this blog.

It has been, however, really nice to capture events and thoughts all these years. I'm sure I will come back and look through old posts to see what I was up to in 2009, 2008, 2007 ... and so on. In my very first blog (which I will not disclose here because that one has even MORE personal stuff on it), dates back to 2005, just when I was about to graduate from high school. I went back and read all of my fears of graduating and going out "into the real world".

I think everyone should write in a journal. It's so therapeutic and a nice feeling to go back and see what you were like in the past, what you were thinking & feeling. It's good to write all out of your emotions, your dreams, and fears and see how much one changes through out the years.

Well, that is the end of my words. Tomorrow I will post my final post, a voice poem that I wrote this semester that I had to read in front of the entire class which ultimately brought me to tears. It brought me to tears because, though the words may come off as cryptic, behind them are stories I've lived and felt through out my life.

I think it an appropriate way to close this blog.

Until then, happy new year & be kind to one another.
Xoxo,
Albert a.k.a. ThespAC