First blog post

This is my very first post. I have been putting off this blog for months, no let me be honest really it has been years that I have been putting off actually writing a blog to share with the world or at the least with close friends.

I love to write, it was for a long time a way for me to vent all my frustrations. The back story to my writing is my high school freshman English teacher at Fairview High School in Fairview TN. Whose name escapes me at this moment, but when I close my eyes and think about her I see her face clear as yesterday.

Our weekly assignment was to write at least three pages in a notebook. At first, I thought it was stupid then after thinking about it I was like what am I going to write about three pages worth of writing. She made it easy she said we could write about anything so naturally I just wrote about my day and my thoughts in soon I was writing more than three pages.

I continue to write to my freshman English teacher in those notebooks well after I graduated and she would write her comments and her thoughts and in a way I found a piece a of me in my writing.

Through the years, I have not written as much but sporadically here and there I write about the day or my feelings.

Recently I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety with PTSD. And I started writing. Where I work now I meet a girl name Sam and I love Sam to death and I showed her something that I had written. The response I got from her was not one that I really expected. She had read what I wrote and she looked at me and said don’t take this the wrong way but I’m glad that you feel that way because it lets me know that I’m not the only one. I feel less alone.

Something in her response to me about what I had written, which I will share with you guy, really got me thinking what if there are more people like this we feel this way and feel alone when in reality were not alone.

Sam’s response to me Made me think and then of course I talk to my best friend Manny and told him what had happened and told him that you know I was thinking about starting a blog and of course as best friends do you said why don’t you, what are you going to call it, send me the link and he still text me about this blog so

As I go into my 33rd year I decided that I’m going to do the things that I keep saying that I want to do but I keep putting off. This blog is one of them along with another hundred or so things that I want to do.