Running for my Life: The First Post

Most of my friends have created blogs, and I enjoy reading them. I never thought I would start blogging for many reasons: time, creativity, interest, etc. Not many people can perfect the act of blogging and if you can't blog correctly, you can't blog at all.

One of my family's closest friends Patrick Cook created his own blog called "A Wicked Good Blog." And you guessed it, it's wicked good! I've read Pat's blogs as often as I can and watched a true master of blogging perfect the art. I've also been lucky enough to be featured in a few of the blogs. His son Andrew recently took up blogging as well, and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. They are both extremely talented writers.

Blogs define who you are, so you can expect to see a lot of talk about the things I love most in this world which include:
Running
The Boston Bruins
Extreme Couponing
My Family
Adventures
etc.

They also will include other non the less exciting topics such as:
The struggles of College
Entering the "Real World"
Job experiences
Being in my early twenties
Figuring out the rest of my life
Overcoming everyday challenges
Forgiving and being Happy
etc.

So I guess the real question is, why did I start blogging? I thought about it and I came up with some interesting reasons:
1. I want to show the world who I am and what I do.
2. Because everyone else is doing it
3. It's a way to prove that I actually am doing something with my life
and 4. I have too much free time

Well none of these were true, and these reasons seem more applicable to justify drinking in college rather than why to start a blog.

The real reason I started a blog was because I would like to look back on my years of blogging in the future, and to be able to connect to the person I once was. The way I feel now about situations and ideas will be different down the road. I want to relive who I once was not through just pictures, distant memories, and faded dreams, but through writing and descriptive memories.

After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, so why not skip the picture and write out the words instead?