Bear with me. It is 4:34 a.m., and my head is swimming in a muddled mess of caffeine and sleep-deprivation. Nevertheless, I will ask you to allow me to introduce myself:
I am a freshman in college, studying nursing.
I have a deep love for God.
Coffee is a substance which I could never get through the day without.
I believe that covers it, so I will bore you no longer with such nothingness. Rather, I will bore you with my most recent accomplishment.
I wake up every day at 5:00 a.m. by choice. My class starts at 8 o'clock, but I find that I enjoy my mornings better when I don't feel an inner rush to speed through it, and being the control-freak that I am, I am usually in bed by 9 or 10 to compensate for the alarm's piercing ring. Tonight--well, I suppose it is yesterday now--I saw the midnight premier of Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows, which I did not get back from until 2:30, so I found no use in sleeping for two hours only to wake up more exhausted than necessary. These, however, are senseless details. Here is the meat of the subject: am I living?
Yes, Reader, I chased a tangent. You see, I am an introvert. I confine myself to my dorm room and quietly do my daily doings, never branching out of my day-to-day routine. Morning, afternoon, and evening--it is all the same. Yesterday, however, I branched out. I am currently in the middle of my first all-nighter, and I have my highly caffeinated coffee beside me to prove it. (I act like an 82 year-old woman sometimes and drink decaf at night...) Back to the question: is my living outside of my 'comfort zone' my first attempt at a life?
Please understand that all of the 'me's and 'my's and "I"s are nothing more than my way of explaining a point, because in all sincerity, Reader, I am asking you. Is life truly defined as the number of times we step away from what we feel is comforting to do something that we can call bold enough to...oh, I don't know...write a blog about? Something that is so beyond our daily livings that it can be labeled a "true" life?
Alas, I digress. Good Morning, and God bless.
