Intro

This is not only my introduction to the world of blogging, but also the start to my life past childhood and beyond college. I'm already learning more of what it feels like to live in my own skin; you're not so similar outside of school as you are inside. Example 1: I started a blog. In some ways I am more confident while in others I am at a total loss. When once I may have been ahead of the pack, now I am at the bottom of the barrel. But I love it.

Despite the challenges of growing up I would not trade it for anything. I've waited most my life to be 22, the magic number of one year past 21, when I have all the rights and privileges I'll ever have without the stigma of being 21.

No matter what the complaint may be or what failures I endure, I'm having fun. I am meeting new people, creating a life of my own, and finally feel like I have started the path I have been waiting to find. No, I don't know where exactly I am going, but for right now I am simply having fun being on the path. Now if only I can remember to enjoy each step I take in the moment I take it.

And then there is part 2 of being 22 that may last a lifetime. Gluten. I'm still convinced I'm making it up, but for whatever reason, under no unusual circumstance and totally out of the blue, my body finally said "stop!" I can't eat it and I rarely cook with it so you'd think it wouldn't really take over much of my life. However, it consumes me. Gluten is everywhere. It's been about 10 months since it reared it's ugly face in the form of poor digestion and general discomfort, but it's still a daily struggle. No, I don't crave it the way most people would think I do, but I miss it. I miss the satisfaction it provides, it's ease and comfort. Most cannot comprehend there lives without it, and neither could I until less than a year ago.

So here, in this new blog and in my new life, I commit to sharing my journey, even if only to myself.