It's about time I showed up, I know. I have been a writer all my life, but typically stick to pen and paper, with stacks of journals taking up the majority of my hall closet. Yet, I am just now creating a blog. Note the date, it is 2011. I am late. I apologize.
So what inspired this blog? Honestly. Quitting smoking. Not my various trips over the last few years, not my month in Europe, not moving to a strange town to embark on the adventure which is graduate school, nor any of the monumentous events such as graduation, extreme lifestyle changes, or love lived and lost. That's right. I chose to begin blogging because I am attempting to quit smoking for the umpteenth time. A friend suggested I journal about it. And since I have been slacking in that area of my life, I decided to take it to the web. Will I write a lot about this experience? Not likely. Yet it was the inspiration pushing me into the blogspot community. Yes, you can thank the tobacco companies; or my addictive personality that has caused this issue of quitting smoking to be prolonged to this date.
I will write more about that tomorrow.
For now, here are the basics... You can read my interests in the about me section, and that pretty much sums up my loves in life. I sign my posts DBear, and will explain that in a later blog... when I can post the pictures to go along with it... I am enjoying the life of a single young woman, figuring out who I am, and loving this person one day at a time... (I know, if I love myself, why smoke? Like I said, that comes later)... I chose "carlamcfly" as my webaddress because one of my favorite quotations is "just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, he/she/it became a butterfly." This quotation has proven true in my life over and over again. I tend to have a dramatic flair, leading me to think "the world is over" (said in a very southern, dramatic voice) when life hits. Gratefully, I have outgrown a lot of this drama, but I still go there at times. Each time I do, without fail, something happens which allows me to spread my wings and fly. Whether it be the failed relationship that led to a greater one, or even better, an amazing journey with myself; or the failed job opportunity which led me to a "better" one... you get the idea. My latest moment included realizing that missing out on a trip to India actually ended up in me being present in life to accept an offer of tuition from my department at the University. See what I mean? I wanted to go to India more than I wanted to breathe. Yet I could not go. So I stayed in Tampa, received a job at USF, and eventually was offered tuition through this position. Just an example of the many places my life has taken me to appreciate the word "FLY"
And this blog will probably include more of those moments than it will posts about quitting smoking. Enjoy.
