My First Blog Post in Nearly Two Years

This is rather bewildering, to say the least.  Nearly two years have passed: two years, in which I have started college, completed my freshman year, learned the various nuances of Success in the Academic World...and, to be fully honest, two years in which I had largely given up on the idea of blogging.

I think one part of me is desperately trying to convince the other part that it was just a passing adolescent phase, waiting to die the slow, painless death of being forgotten in a flurry of other whimsies and obsessions and activities.  To an extent, this first part of me does have a point.  After all, it's only human to be caught up in the glamorous fantasy of internet fame, and imagine yourself as a wildly popular author with countless followers on one's blog.... right?  Right??

... *crickets*

Okay, then.  Back to business.

The second, more rational part of me is quietly insisting that I gave up because of the adolescent angst and frustration of not having one's "famous writer" dreams come true.  And the third part of me is wailing and gnashing its teeth, and performing something akin to an Edward Elric tantrum.  (And the fourth part now wants to delve into Fullmetal Alchemist for having made that reference. XD)

Regardless, I think I'm going to start up again.  Not for the dreams (although, having lots of followers would certainly be nice in its own way), but simply because I'd like to write in a public setting, receive feedback, and have a good-looking background to accompany my writing.  And because it's fun to write!!!

At least in my own experience, it's undeniably fun to imagine great and terrible and wonderful things and channel them into a written medium; for the excitement to swirl up inside, that mad bubbling volcano of vision frothing in wondrous effervescence and exploding past the barrier of the mind to trickle down the nerve endings and emerge through the fingertips onto one's keyboard.  To write - to wax philosophical simply because one can, no matter what people think, no matter the comments (or lack thereof)!! :D

Wow, the enthusiasm runs strong in this one tonight.....

So in conclusion: here's to an unpredictable journey of writer's block, inevitable confidence issues, mad moments of inspiration at 2 AM, and hopefully some fun along the way :)

Cheers!!!   

(BTW, there's something not quite right about the quotation marks.... Working on it presently.  Inconceivable.)