Chapter 23: The Second Coming

I'm turning 22, I'm getting older and don't know what to do. Life keeps spinning and I keep thinking about what I'm to do. I keep listening to a song and I don't know what it means, but there is this thing that keeps on  making me listen to this song. It makes me think of my past, present and future. I keep wishing for a direction in life and know it won't happen because I need to create my own direction for myself. I want someone to show me, I'm tired of wandering alone.

I keep running and wandering. I think I'm trying to discover or find something that I don't have. I will probably never find it because I know I'm trying to hard and searching in the wrong places. I wish someone would just tap me on the shoulder and turn me around. I would really appreciate that and hope someone saves me from my darkest fear, me. Sometimes I wonder who I am and what I want to accomplish. What do I seek and what do I pleasure?

I wish I could feel emotion when I needed to, but for some reason emotion has bee withheld from me and I feel nothing. What am I suppose to do? I think its because I have too much on my mind and I think that getting older means I need to change something about myself. I know that I need to be myself, but I want to be something greater. Sometimes I feel like I don't know who I am anymore and that scares me. I forget my past and have no history. I'm just a blank page in a book, there is nothing to describe me by. I pure nothingness sometimes. I'm lost within all the frustration of the world and I need a way out.

I think sometimes its better to be with someone then be without. I lack the feeling of love from people and I feel like I'm standing at the ledge, I'm waiting for someone to say stop, but I only hear the wind blowin. I'm defiantly on the hardest adventure of my life and I don't see no ending. I'm not sure whether to control myself or let myself go. I'm scared, really scared and I'm confused. I've been told I'm a nice guy, but no one takes an interest in the nice guy. They only want whats hot and whats cool. No one wants what reality is, they only want fake and fiction. These words describes all of the douches out there and those girls left crying after they have chosen wrong. " Once I take second place, I won't be here. I'll be gone and I don't ever take second place."

I'm trying to think of my best day ever and the past comes back to me. I remember my true friends and how we survived in elementary. I'm soon to have my birthday party and hit 22. I remember when I hit 12 and remember 12 being the best year I ever had. I had the greatest friends Dustin, David and Evan. We were the best of friends and no one could rip us apart. We were young back then and my birthday party was the best time and last time I remember being really happy. I had the best friends that anyone could have till I moved. Since then, life has shown me who these people can become. Dustin has a kid now, David has seen the life of temptation and I pray for him everyday that he would leave temptation alone and Evan I've lost track of. I wish for those good days and I know I will never get to see them again. I wish I could be that happy smilin kid again, but my adventure doesn't allow me to become like Mr. Pan. I only get to move on and desire new dreams and memories.

Chapter 22: I Still Think of You

I had a great night like always. Met some new people and we talked about all sorts of things. We talked about martial arts and if Jackie Chan is really a boss at fighting. The night I thought about getting older though, I'm turning 22 in a couple of days. Why do I need to get older?

I remember the movie Peter Pan and realize that I never want to grow up. I've been creating this past week my very own animated script for my final project and I'm getting very excited about it. I'm listening to Disney music and it just reminds me of the perfect childhood I had. I get thinking though after my final project what am I looking forward too?

I guess there is my career in animation and movies, but I wonder what life has for me. I don't even have a single crush. I guess I still think of you and when you told me it was going to be ok when my Grandpa died. I still remember that night when I heard the news and I sat in my room crying alone. I called her up and asked if we could meet. She told me it was alright and I grew stronger. God was with us that night and I miss that feeling. I know she was the one for me, but I was too afraid to say anything. She has since then, left and I wish I had that chance to tell her how much I appreciated her company that night.

I still think of her and sometimes have dreams where we are walking across a field of grass. We talk about life and I hold her hand. My dreams are realistic and life like. I can feel the warmth from her hands and see each strand of her hair blowing in the wind. I hear the song just now called How Great is Our God. I know it doesn't seem real, but it just happened. I know God is telling me something. I still long for my father and I love him so. I feel he has set on my heart to love her, but she is so distant. How do I let her know that I still care for her? To let her know after a whole year, will she think I'm joking or does she feel the same?

I remember meeting her at fallopolooza. Its a retreat that I went on with CRU and it was one of the best experiences ever. I miss all of my friends from CRU and I feel like my heart needs a change. I let someone know last week that I'm not a great person, I might seem nice, but in reality I'm dark sinner who desires what the world has to offer. God I pray to you right now, let me have a second, third, forth chance to come back to you and love you. I need your help in every way and I've fall too far to depend only on myself. Save me Lord, bring me to the light and maybe someday I can care about her or that special someone. Amen.

Chapter 21: Enjoying Life as I Roam the World

I've been trying to settle down from the last experience that some girls put you through. I've been really trying to focus on school and fill my time with other things. I finally stopped working as a shoes sales man and I feel relived. I think that I need to peel off that layer and move on. I've been peeling off a lot of layers of my life, like some girls, jobs and class work. I've been trying to enjoy the little things that life has to offer each day. You need to move on to build yourself up again.

I decided to pick up a supply of art materials because recently I've been drawing and brainstorming ideas in my notebook during class. I've been taking a class for my final project in graphic communications and the topic came up about storyboards and now I have a sketchpad that I will use to create my storyboards for my animation. I've revisited the past and remembered why I want to pursue this career and become a director of animation one day. I really like to use my imagination and create things that I visualize. There is just something about creating my own world and characters that excite me.

I really enjoy going out and eating on Tuesday nights at the OB. Great wings for just 25 cents satisfy this poor man college student. I just like the atmosphere and hanging out with my friends and roomie. I guess I need a break during the week to keep me going. Also there are some cute waitresses there too. Haha yeah we like to joke about that stuff too, especially with Steeleo. Haha actually just ate there tonight with him and our waitress was very nice and cute. Hmm wish I would have told her my birthday party was coming up; she commented on me turning 22. Hmm I think she liked me, oh well who knows.

Yeah turning 22 in two weeks. Getting older and throwing in graduation makes me feel strange. I still don't really know what I want to do in life. The biggest adventure hasn't happened yet and wondering when it will hit. So back to my party, hmm what to do. Well there was one thing I joked to Tory about before he headed to Iowa. I asked him if we could do a smaller scale Project X for my b-day. He laughed and said yeah fo sure, anything for my friend. He also mentioned about having a square dance in the barn they have and I was like yes, a must. It would be crazy if we could get it done, but I have a feeling like it will fall through.

Today was like, I need to do something productive or fun. I haven't played basketball for awhile and I really enjoyed it when I got on the winning team. You might not know how hard it is on a guy who hasn't done a lot of working out for the past month and be on the winning team for basketball. What the winning team is, you get to keep playing till you lose. My team won 8 straight games and I felt like my knees were going to explode. Luckily they didn't, but I really need to get back in shape, plus I miss basketball. So yeah that was fun. My teammates kept calling me Scalibrine because I have red hair and Scalibrine is a red head basketball player in the NBA. It didn't bother me, it was actually quite funny and hey I'm a pro.

It must have been a good day, tired out for once and feel like sleeping soon. I've totally put off worrying and problems in life this week. I've focused on enjoying the "now" and keep on looking up after battle after battle. Life is just one step to paradise and I try to enjoy the little things and I keep going in my life adventure.