Making up

There are three main loves in my life: family, friends, and literature. Now the third was last to join this line up. While I loved listening to stories growing up I only started to enjoy reading books when I was in fifth grade. Around the same time I started to write poems and short stories as well. But as any avid reader, or anyone really who persist in any interest for an extended period of time realizes is sometimes making it a job is the worst thing you can do.

When your passion is the one thing that gives you joy the best thing you can do is let it thrive outside the mass marketing industry while you foster it, because before you realize it whatever one might have intended to create originally no longer exists. It has been tailored to fit whatever the perception your audience has. It took me a long time to realize this that's why sometimes I can't even recognize my own characters. When that happened I knew it was time to fall in love again.

So this past year I learned to read again. I learned what it was like to fall in love with characters and just want to watch them live their lives there out on the paper. I remembered the feeling of not creating or building a character but discovering them as the words poured out of my fingers onto the paper.

After practically taking an entire year off from writing I'm happy to be back in a world of just me and my characters. I'm not going to post stories tailored to an audience. I'm going to write out the lives of these characters just as they tell me it happened, and clean them up a bit for the sake for grammar.

Melting

I smiled the other day
It took me by the surprise.
I the scent of rain stole my breath away
And I laughed without disguise.

The Key of Friendship

Friendship is one of the greatest treasures of this life. Unfortunately true friendships are one of the hardest things to a achieve. Humans are social creatures, and we create new relationships with each new interaction. That does not mean we need treat all relationships equally. If a person tried to focus the same amount of energy into each relationship they would fond themselves drained, and unable to maintain any steady relationship.
This is why we must be careful when we choose friends. Many people have many friends, but I have found it better to have a select few, and this small group is why I have been able to maintain a strong bond with my friends despite time and distance. It is through them I discovered that it is not similarities that bind us together but our differences. These differences act to balance the strong personalizes and force us to consider other. That is the key.
The key to live can be found by examining your closest relationship, the ones a person treasures. MY friends make me look at the world from different viewpoints so that I never stand in a place too long and become stuck. They make me reexamine my decisions and challenge me to face my own fears. Friendship is a a key that can open and door.

Why hello there Google

So I'm busy in a new country, but I was planning on keeping this blog going while I was here. There was just one problem I couldn't log onto my Google account thanks to the fact my phone didn't work and I was logging on from a different country.
Thankfully thanks to a visit to my mother in Hong Kong I was able to log back onto my Google account. So greetings everyone from Beppu, Japan.