Halloween

Tonight is Halloween...I've never really been big on Halloween, but the last couple of years have been really fun. I have had the chance to be really creative and come up with really amazing costumes. I think what I've liked so much is that it has brought me back to my creative side. I used to be so creative, and came up with such amazing, fun things when I was a kid. As I've become older, I've stopped creating so much. I have become kind of boring.
In fact, when I was in 5th grade (now this will give you an idea of how much of a suck up I was when I was a kid) I created puppets out of construction paper and yarn, wrote an entire puppet show about how to "Just Say NO" to drugs, and proposed it to the counselor at my elementary school so that I could go around to the younger grades and teach them about saying no to drugs. That is the kind of thing that I used to do all the time. I haven't been creative like this for years, and Halloween is allowing me to be creative again.
I've missed using the right side of my brain. I don't want to let it go to waste anymore. This is part of the reason I have started writing this blog. I may not ever write anything worthy of publishing, but I will get my words out and start letting my creativity flow.
This year I'm going as Frodo from the Lord of the Rings, which is appropriate since one of my nicknames is Hobbit. I will be practicing the Hobbit dance for this particular evening as I haven't done it in quite some time.
Happy Halloween everyone!

The Bane of my Existence

Work...I know we all have to do it, but I swear, when I was a little kid, I had such a different vision of what it would be like. It was very glamorous when I envisioned what my life would look like today, and it was SOOOO different in my wild dreams. I wish we could continue dreaming like we did when we were young. The world had so many options. In my mind, I could do absolutely anything. I even pictured myself playing at Wimbledon against Venus Williams. When did it become okay to be complacent and just go along with the machine of society...working every day, doing the same thing every day, and just living the mundane life with no excitement...?
I wish I had the guts to make some really risky decisions. How does one go about learning how to take risks when we have responsibilities that we have to care for...? I have bills, rent, car payment, student loan payments, etc., etc., etc.
In my wildest dreams today, I wish I could just pick up and move to an exciting place where everything is new and nothing is the same. I'm sure in some ways, familiarity is a great thing, but familiarity is what keeps me from moving forward and growing and learning more about myself and the world. I want to be scared and power forward anyway to push through to the other side of great.
Does anyone know how to do this? I'm unsure and I sure could use something new in my life, albeit scary.