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 Hello everyone! I hope you've all been having a good year so far. I have been on somewhat of a break from school, and felt that I needed to write. I hope that this doesn't feel too forced but I just need to put my mind to work.      Recently I have been thinking about orange, not just the color, but the fruit as well. The thought of the fruit brings to mind that as you peel the orange, it divides itself into slices. This sentiment is one that warms my heart and gets me thinking about how we share and are made to give parts of ourselves to one another.      Let me explain that better. While we all have our own experiences and way of learning and growing, one of my favorite things that I have read is someone said that we are a collection of everyone we have ever loved. I find that to be true and I see evidence for it all throughout my life. I repeat things that my friends say, my handwriting looks like my dad's, I think about my sisters when I listen to...

       Hello again everyone! Sorry it has been so long! Just wanted to hop on and share an entry from my journal that I wrote a little while ago.      Last night as I was trying to fall asleep, my mind was racing. Maybe it was the coffee I drank after 3pm, maybe it all of the worries in my head, the unmet deadlines, things I had forgotten come back to haunt me as I lay in my bed. As my mind was running laps, working out what I would do when I woke up, I thought about decluttering. Removing things I think I could do without. My mind roamed over my desk (where I spend most of my time now) and all the little thing I keep. In particular a stub of a pencil. The pencil is wrapped in what looks like pages from a book. I got that pencil on my 9th birthday. My sister, Grace, made them as party favors for the guests. I wonder how many more of those pencils are around now. Thinking about it makes me feel a little sad (bittersweet would be a better word for it) re...

      Hello everyone!      I know that it's pretentious to post on new years, but it has got me thinking so I figured what better thing than to go to my Blog?      The new year is always full of promises, for new relationships, new jobs, and new opportunities. This influx of "new" brings to question the old saying "new year, new me" and things along the like. While this is brought up every year, as expected, this year it has really stuck out to me. The idea of renewing oneself is not dangerous by all means, but it is the few posts that I have seen talking about their 2025 "rebrand" that will happen to them. This struck a chord with me and really got me thinking, what is causing this insurgence of young people relying on circumstances to change them?       In this age of constant ability to "rebrand" and change, I have begun to worry about how we only change in these sink or swim scenarios. While it is always good to see th...

 Hello again everyone!      This season I've been thinking about how we as humans use so many different things to keep track of things, from time to recipes. The use of these are very different and while I recognize that, I still feel the need to connect them. For you, the reader, I will take my time and go through the thought process and why I connect them.       Starting with time. Time has always been such a funny concept to me and I try not to think about it too much, however I have been thinking about how we as people use time to meet and connect. With things like meeting for coffee and meeting for dinner, we use time to determine when and how we meet. I find this reassuring, helpful, and telling of how we need things to remind us of our own mortality. This also makes me think of how loose these time measurements are and how fragile too. In this we see that many timed things are not only broken, but also ignored. This can be seen in how ...

 Hello again.   Recently I've been thinking about the question if people are becoming too unserious. I saw a post by Ethel Cain a while ago and it really got me thinking about this. She was talking about how stupid she felt sometimes due to how her fans treat her and her art. She talked about how she has gotten sick of people post mindless rot under her posts and art that she does. This got me thinking about how it is true that so many times even I fall into the habit of using slang and silly terms that don't really make sense. But is that really a problem? Is the whole world going silly?  I've been writing about this in my Journal and had a few conversations about it, one of my favorites I shared with my sister. We were talking about how we both sometimes feel bad about how we almost always find a way to laugh about anything that we can. Not in a mean or judgmental way, but in a way to continue the good feeling. Is that a crime to want to feel happy and laugh more o...

 Hello everyone!  This is my newest little project that I wanted to try out. I cannot promise that I will update or even get back on after this, but even that makes it feel fun. The thrill of things that happen only once will always excite me!  This post is mostly to introduce myself so I'll try to stay on topic with this post.  My name is Josh, I am 20 years old, and I am a college student. I live in a small town so this is the way that I might be able to see what its like on the big web. I was homeschooled and this is my first time using a Blog. I hope that I can reawaken the people wanting to post on the Blogs because I think it is very funny. I an a gaybo so if you do not like hearing about the modern homosexual life than you can leave this site, and if you are someone that I know irl and you didn't know that I was gay till now, damn, that's crazy. Like how did you not know? If this is your first time finding out send me a DM cuz I want to hear about it.  Th...