Road Trip

The night before New Years Eve I decided to finally have the epiphany I've been waiting for.  I discovered it in the same way I discover most of my epiphany's: late at night while writing in my journal.  I won't bore you with the details, but I basically feel like I broke through the mild seasonal depression I've been experiencing for the past few months.  I suppose I can't really call it an epiphany, actually.  Epiphany's happen when you realize something. In this case, I realized nothing but changed my perspective in order to make myself happier.  It's a great thing.

Either way, New Years Eve was a fun night filled with close friends and weird happenings.  I woke up at 8:00 am the next morning for the long haul back to Portland.  I find it strangely amusing that I had made a drastic personal change on my outlook on life in the last two days of 2009.  And, seeing as I'm an English major, I became very excited about the symbolism surrounding my road trip away from home on New Years Day.  

So, I'm very excited to take in 2010.  After all, this is going to be a very great year.  A few things I've got planned:

--21st Birthday in March!!!!!! 

--Vegas in April 

--Hawaii for 4th of July (Although I find it very distasteful to celebrate American Independence Day in Hawaii what with the history and all, I am very excited)

--Entering my last year in college!!

As you can see, this is a big year for me.  And I'm feeling optimistic and confident about it  =)

I also came across a great video on TedTalks.  Steve Jobs, founder of Apple and Pixar, gives a speech to a graduating class at Stanford.  I was blown away by his speech.  I've attached it below.

I especially like the first part about connecting the events within your life.  He explains how he can look back on his past and see how certain things happened at specific moments to get him to where he is today.  The past becomes a much easier thing to comprehend because it is the equation that led you to the present moment.  Hence, it only makes sense to have faith in what you do and what is done to you now, because one day you will look back and realize that it was all suppose to happen in that certain way.  

All this talk makes me so excited =) Oh, and if you haven't read your horoscope for 2010, you totally should.