Sports management is a vast field of women and men. I feel like [I’ll] fit right in. although fsw does not offer this major. The University of Florida does, and it’s the number one program and school that offers it. This also happens to be my dream school since a child, so what an ironic idea of going. After receiving my associate’s in arts from FSW, I plan to transfer and finish at UF. Besides school, I do have a life. I work at party city as a cashier. When customers walk in, we say ” welcome to the party,” which has become a part of my daily routine by default. As of now, school is my only focus, and working to maintain the life I want to live. I hope this blog helps me to be more social and learn through others’ experiences. Writing this first post is almost like an open diary—best of luck, classmates.
I’m living again, by realizing I have never not mattered. I have just been looking for approval from the world and everyone in it but myself. I needed love, I gave myself that love. I devote time for myself to do what ever I want to do, I don’t hold back on life experiences from ideas of what ifs and stigma. I do what I want and make time for what matters to me. I started living by doing small things and hobbies I have always enjoyed everyday! With positive intentions I am able to reach my goals I set for my days. Seriously acknowledging my own needs and realizing I was not filling my own cup the same way I am filling others- including family- I was feeling very low, tired and empty. I didn’t have interests or energy because I wasn’t receiving anything I was expecting back from the world for giving so much of myself but not too myself! Putting my needs as a priority had really changed my life and those around for the better. I am not only doing good things, I’m doing then happy and I’m doing these things for myself too. Expressing who I am, and what I need by being myself and I truly feel I’m getting into the groove of living, but not again though.. because I never stopped just lived and experienced a life lesson.
Keywords: blogger , happy , job , personal blogger
This year has had its fair share of ups and downs. But this month things are certainly looking up. I have been out of work for a year and 3 months. I would apply for jobs just for them to tell me I’m overqualified or they were not hiring at the time. It got very discouraging and I would often hear people stating that people on unemployment are lazy and not looking for work.
I should also take a moment to introduce my travel companion Emerald. Emerald is a Beanie Boo loaned to me by my lovely daughter Kaylee for my trip to Ireland. Kaylee selected her as my travel companion because Emerald is actually from Dublin, Ireland! I will be sure to post lots of pictures of our adventures together.
Another reflective post from your “host” leading up to our 1st Anniversary. but “host” is in quotes to indicate that my vision for this site is not so much “my way” as it is “our way” (at least I want it to be that way 😉 ). Several years ago (when I was still engaged over at TEH FACEBOOK), I had an online friend there who inspired me quite a lot — in a sort of changed my life sort of way. She was so convinced in “WE NOT ME” that she tattooed that on one wrist sleeve, and the ubuntu symbol on the other. To this day, I feel her influence on me — even though I kept bugging her with wanting to know more and understand more about her thoughts, ideas, hopes and dreams so much that she saw no alternative to my constant bothering than to unfriend me (indeed: even to block me). There are no “hard feelings” involved, it was simply a matter-of-fact solution to my incessantly menacing neediness which simply took up too much of her time.
Source: Own mashup of 2 pics — from somewhere on Facebook, dated many years ago
I learned a lot from that experience, and also from that wonder-woman (which is, I guess, how I continue to see her to this day). Yet maybe she also learned a thing or two from me. For example: she would emphasize how important reading (and also listening) attentively is, and I would emphasize how our shared language exchanges shape the evolution of our future language, the language future generations will inherit, the expressions future generations will be receiving from us, reshaping them yet again — quasi according to a natural law governing the survival of the fittest languages.
So this long-winded preface is perhaps just one of many possible “background” or “historical” antecedents to “how I / we got here”, other explanations go back much further, along different tangents, and quite obviously beyond the scope of what I (and / or we) want here and now.
I want more of “us” to participate. The musically minded among us may immediately be reminded of Peter Gabriel’s “Only Us” (and his entire album “Us”), or perhaps (for the more advanced 😉 ) Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them”. I by no means want to give anyone a “short, sharp shock” — I simply want community engagement. I have been reaching out to “Others” for nearly a year now: many seem astonished, quite a few seem flattered, some seem to feel flustered, but almost no one is clicking “join” (and actually completing the step to become a member of this website).
I want more others to become members, I want more members to participate and become more engaged with unraveling the mystery of both our own individual wants and our collective wants. I want more understanding about how we choose to create the environments we want to live in. I want these and more things to happen, and I also want other things (i.e., wants of others) to happen, too.
I want this increase in engagement to happen here, and I also want it to happen there and everywhere, too. One way of interpreting the web is to see it as one big massive hypertext, with links making connections all over the place.
I wish to close by explaining why I feel people should become engaged more here. Here, I feel we can expect a heightened level of sensitivity to the importance of wants, the awareness of wants and so on. Just the other day I found an article on the web attempting to delineate wants from needs — but in my opinion the author was too conviced of their own ideas, and I also felt the ideas were quite confused / confusing (at best — if you wish to read about it yourself, you may be able to find the text via my review of the author’s “about” page). I had submitted a comment to the post, and it was apparently not approved. I don’t know much about the author, except perhaps that they seem unwilling to engage.
My hopes and aims for this website is that more engaged members will increasingly participate, and thereby help to shape our own future, and perhaps also the future of others. Helping to make this high priority happen is important to me. The path I intend to trailblaze in order to get us from here to there (and everywhere? 😛 ) is the subject for another post … coming soon! 😀
Keywords: outdoor adventures , featured , getting seniors outdoors , healthy living , mental health , outdoor recreation , senior health
Several years ago, while Randy Thoreson was working for the National Park Service, he began talking with the Division Chief for Conservation and Outdoor Recreation. “I enjoy doing all of this work with youth,” said Thoreson, “but I think we’re missing a sector of the population. The outdoors isn’t just for kids, you know.”
