It's been really hard to write lately, and I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I put my blog up against very rigid standards, and end up erasing a lot of what I write without posting it. Also, I keep struggling with the true purpose for having this blog in the first place. Part of me wants to use it as a vent for issues that I struggle with. But that doesn't make very interesting reading most of the time.

You've probably noticed that I've gotten a lot more "political" in the last several months. In a way, I see blogs as a form of journalism. I realize that the people who read this blog probably don't regularly read the type of stuff that I do. So I hope, by posting some of the things that I have, that I have exposed some of you to events, issues, and streams of thoughts that you may not have previously encountered.

There's a lot going on right now, as always. In many ways I feel that I am a different person than I was just a few months ago. I have been waist-deep in the real world, and it has really started to change my perceptions of reality. Priorities that once held a very high position have slipped into the domain of irrelevance.

I guess this is a satisfactory post for New Year's Day. I don't have any resolutions this year. But it feels good to know that, in a sense, I can start fresh and put the past behind me. Of course I can always do that, but it's nice to have an official day to serve as yet another milepost in this arduous and wonderful journey.

This entry was posted by 141NYC, on Saturday, January 01, 2005. You can leave your response.