On Beginnings.

Beginnings are always really awkward. Take the first day of school for instance. You have no idea where you're going, who will be in your classes, what to expect from your teachers or what they expect from you. The first day of work is nervewrecking because all of a sudden you have to remember a bunch of new names and typically have no idea what you're doing. The beginning of relationships is pretty awkward. You're not sure what the other person is thinking and what's appropriate to say or do. Everyone has experienced at least one beginning to something.

However awkward they may be, one great thing about beginnings is that they always hold great potential. On the first day of school you haven't received any grades yet - so as far as you're concerned that A is yours. Your first day of work you are given tasks and deadlines - and the opportunity to get a jump start and impress your boss lays in your hands on this very day. In a new relationship you get the chance to discover another person and disclose things about yourself any way you'd like. Everyone gets to experience a fresh start that can end up miniscule on a greater scale, or could be lifechanging. That's the beauty in it. There's no way to know except to give it a try.

So here is the beginning of my blog. Kind of awkward, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt to become something amazing. Maybe it will interest a handful of close friends and relatives, maybe it will reach thousands of people on the internet, or maybe it will serve as an online journal solely for my own entertainment.

Why do people blog? Because they want to share their thoughts. Ergo....

the first link I'm going to share is called The Thought Project by Simon Hoegsberg. This guy walked down the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark, and NYC and stopped random people to ask what they were thinking about the very moment before he stopped them. He then snapped a photo of them and put this thing together. 

The Thought Project

Enjoy.