An Introduction

 
     Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste. Not really, well I do have pretty good taste, at least I think so. I always wanted to start something with that line. Anyone who knows what song that is from, I will be your friend for life.

     The titles says "An Introduction", so here it is. My name is Bob, I'm 45 years old, and I life in Florida in a place known as the Space Coast. That is about as specific as I'm going to get with that. I said in the test post that I might post here from time to time. Well, I decided that I am going to post here weekly for now. I'll get to why that is happening soon enough. First though, I should tell you why all of this started.

     I was listening to a podcast by Greg Fitzsimmons one day. On that podcast, he wondered out loud about how great it would be, to do a podcast where you could be honest about everything you said about your self and your own feelings. I don't have a podcast, but I can write, so that began the journey of what is now a 365 project. A secondary reason was for me to have a reason to write everyday. I decided Facebook was the place for this. It was simple and I could keep it limited to those who already know me.

     It was initially a 30 day project to see if I could do it, that quickly turned into 100 then 365. I'm currently on day 288. I have a little ways to go. I was going to continue that here when I was done, after a short break. I came to the conclusion this weekend, that I don't need that break, and in fact I'm getting a bit antsy, and a little impatient to start posting here. For the time being, I will be committed to posting weekly on here while the 365 keeps going on. It will be a unique post, and not a repost from the project. I write these pretty much off the top of my head, but mostly it is about my life. There will be days when this will be absolutely boring. There will be other times that I will make up for that. I promise.

     I found that through writing these post, that had a fundamental impact on my life. I noticed an unbelievable difference in how I dealt with my own depression. I truly didn't expect that. I found that I was able to just let things go after writing about them. It was amazing. Do I think this will work for anyone else? I have no idea, but it has for me so far.

     I guess I should get to the point before this gets too long. Here is what I have in store for you. I will write primarily about my life. During the 365 I will post here weekly, but after that, I am committed to posting three times a week. It could be more, but I'm definitely committed to 3. I'm thinking about a Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday schedule, but that isn't in stone yet. Things that will come up undoubtably in my life will be: Billie Holliday, Jack Kerouac, Twenty One Pilots, ukuleles, tattoos, Chucks, and the very rare rant about something that might resemble politics. For the most part, I'm going to keep things positive. I want people to be happy, and I believe that the world can be a better place, through positive thinking and helping each other out (oh yeah, I'm a giant tree hugging hippy). Oh, I should tell you about the parentheses. Those are my inner thoughts. Sometimes they will fill you in on something, like above, and other times they may come off as complete nonsense. My hope is that that is entertaining for you the reader.

     I'm going to wrap this up, because I can see that it is already getting long. I try to keep these as short as possible, because I don't want to destroy your eyesight with a lot of tiny letters. I end each post with "peace in and goodnight" The meaning is pretty simple. Goodnight is self explanatory. The peace in is going to be the odd part for you. Most people would say peace out. I looked at that, and that that it has the perception of negativity. It's saying, "peace, get out". Peace in became the thing for me. It basically says bring peace into your life. With that I say, peace in and goodnight.