This New Blog of Mine

Writing used to be my passion.  Somewhere in between finding myself in a happy relationship, moving 6 times in the past 7 years, and becoming an adult I seem to have lost the drive.  I have journals filled with my words, yet I can't honestly remember the last time I sat down to just write.  I'm out of practice.

Now I find myself in a city where I don't know anyone.  I find myself in a new job where I "write" for a living (albeit not the kind of writing I'd prefer).  I find myself unsure of who I am and what my true passions are.  There was a line in a movie this morning that shook me.  "It's never too late to become what you might have been."  It was in the film Away From Her.  I immediately started thinking about these words, and what they mean to me.  I'm not sure, but I know that they are the main reason I decided to come over here and start blogging.

The funny thing is that it's not the first time a movie quote has really taken over in my life.  For years, when i was a bit younger, I followed the advice of a quote from the movie Legend. Embarrassing, I know.  It was, "The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity."  Go ahead.  Read that again.  I am struck with how similar the quotes are, and by the fact that they are saying the exact opposite of each other.  Maybe that's the difference in youth and maturity.

I won't always write about writing.  I'm not planning on blogging about movie quotes, either.  If this will help me to actually write, I just plan on actually writing.