The first of many!

So here we are!

You know, I always wondered what it would be like to have a blog, to have tens of people reading my ramblings on a regular basis.  I wondered what exactly I would blog about, whether it would be about sports or arts or video games or something else.  So I've decided to write about anything, about everything.  About life.  After several years of dabbling in notes on Facebook or back in the day writing silly stories on MSNSpaces, I've made my official blog.  

Inspired by some recent events in my life, and inspired by a note I wrote recently on Facebook, I am calling this blog "Hey you sexy beast, you're going places" because I think at the end of the day it doesn't matter who we are, who our role models are, what we're reading, what we're watching, etc, it comes down to what we can do and what we can say to ourselves at the end of the day.  A good friend of mine told me once "If you can't be honest with yourself, who can you be honest with?"  So that, along with growing up with my mother who instilled in me similar concepts about how to live, has inspired me to begin to really look at myself and who I am.  Because it doesn't matter who I'm with or where I am, the only tools I actually need are with me at all times.  They are in my body, my voice, my life experiences, my mind, and so on.  It's all up to us, and if we have our proverbial ducks lined up then the odds are we will bring people into our life that will fit in with those tools we already have.

I'm not sure what people should expect when reading these blogs of mine, and I'm also not sure if many people will, but what I can say is what I'm writing will mean something to me, whether poignant or funny or witty or emotional or everything in between.  And chances are if it means something to me, it may mean something to someone else, even if it's just one person.

A short story I'll share that is a part of all of this involves my 5th and 6th Grade teachers who incorporated theatre into their day to day elementary curriculum.  At that point in my life I had no idea at all what I wanted to do with my future (and even at that young age I was really freaked out about that), but they put me on a path that led me to where I am today.  Their help, their advice, and their confidence in me helped make me the person I am today, and for that I will always be grateful.  After this experience in my life it has been a goal of mine to have the privilege of knowing that by my existing in someone's life I have made their life at least little better, because like the author George Eliot said: "What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

And with that I'll bring this, my first blog, to a close.  Thank you to those who are following this, whoever you are.  I love you all.  Oh, and by the way:  Hey you sexy beast:  You are going places.

JB