Pieces of me...

finally (on May 5th) accomplished something on my bucket list: free climbing. 

(a type of rock climbing in which the climber uses only hands, feet and other parts of the body to ascend, employing ropes to prevent falls only)

It was an amazing experience that I will never forget.

why are you so far away? it’s only been 3 days since the semester ended and all i do is miss you :(

dear tumblr., 

sorry i happen to neglect you on a regular basis. it will keep happening, despite attempts to regularly post.

sincerely, 

me

For me, a typical New Year’s Eve is spent staying in with a few friends and watching the ball drop on TV from the comfort of my own couch. This year, it was spent at a bonfire near a cabin in the middle of nowhere attended by 50 people, 3 of which I know and only a handful of others had I met but once or twice. It was insane and so out of the usual for me. And…I. LOVED. IT. Meeting new people and spending the last hours of 2011 with the one I have been seeing for about a year, someone I truly care about, was all so perfect (…if you overlook the slight problem of me forgetting my boots, my toes were quite icy after the first hour before the fire was started.) It was so much different than every other New Year’s Eve, but it was by far one of the best and it was a night I will truly remember forever. And in the wee hours of the New Year, right before I fell asleep with his arms wrapped around me, the man I’ve been seeing for some time now? Yeah, he loves me <3

The moral of the story - sometimes its ok to jump without looking, experience new things, and grow as a person. I know I want to enjoy as many new adventures as I can in the coming year.

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”                   -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always had a hard time letting people in. Letting people get to know the real me. Even when I was little, it was easier to be by myself. There was no risk of getting hurt that way. But as 2011 comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting over the past year. In January I met a wonderful person - someone who makes me smile and laugh, someone who enjoys many of the same activities I do, someone who does not judge, someone I can trust. I have enjoyed the time we have spent together - hiking, talking, and just being together. I now know that even if our relationship does not last over the up coming year, I’ll have at least learned many things about myself and life in general and that is what truly matters. Its better to let others in, to enjoy life, than to be scared and hide.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

~Ingrid Bergman