I just started a blog...

Here is the beginning of my blog, my blog about....who knows.  I've been told by multiple people, however, that this would be highly convenient way for me to keep people in my life updated about my experiences, thoughts and observations. And as most people close to me know, I also tend to have an insane amount of questions, ideas and weird philosophical thoughts that I like to pose, because isn't that what keeps the world turning after all... putting ourselves out there, as scary as that can be? I'm not sure at all what this blog is going to be about yet. I'm sure that it will eventually take shape and evolve into whatever it's supposed to be, perhaps it will be about my music, food, dance, shows I see, or crazy people on the subway. But for now it can be about everything, a place for me to share a little bit of the way I see the world. And it's nice to speak when you know that somebody may be listening.

The age we exist in is one of quick and easy communication; myspaces, facebooks, status updates, postings, listserves, chatgroups and webpages. It has never been so easy to reveal so much about yourself. And this age of multimedia communication is revealing much about the human psyche, about people's loneliness and desire to be heard, desire to connect. People have been journaling for centuries, and probably usually with the intention of their writings being found after death, read by someone, or published and read by many. People write to order their thoughts, to save thoughts from obscurity. But, I think that in the process of recording thoughts, or creating art, there is absolutely always the intention of having it be seen eventually. There is always the desire to have others care about your individual perspective of such a chaotic world.  Everyone has something to say, something to share, whether it's written on piles of dusty paper that go unseen in closets for decades, or published immediately on the internet. I don't think that much has changed in the human psyche in terms of the desire to share thoughts and ideas, in the desire to connect. But, I think that this universal itch has become that much more obvious. So, I guess this blog is me scratching that itch, thinking that I have some interesting thoughts and observations, and thinking that perhaps people will have the desire to connect with them. Perhaps it should start as a blog about my arrival in New York City.... because this city is a microcosm of the world, of every type of person, every feeling, every fear; and as of now, it is so very overwhelming.  There is always so much to do, so much to observe, so much to think about, so many people to meet, and that's stressful and beautiful. I can already tell, however, that the struggle is going to be in the attempt to resist becoming jaded, because it seems that here it could be oh so easy.