Pre-Project Post

So, greetings to the internet. Tomorrow, or technically later today, I will be starting my Around The Indigo Sun project, in which I will be posting a blog every day for a year, starting and ending on my birthday.
This is a big commitment I am taking on, and hopefully there will be some people around who will be able to bug me and keep me on track. Hopefully what I write will also not be complete trash and some people will find it thoughtful, or amusing, or maybe a little helpful or interesting or any number of other things, but I really hope that this will be a positive experience for anyone who decides to be involved.

A couple things you should know if you plan to be reading this blog, no matter who you are or what you believe there is a 100% chance that you will not agree with something I say, at one point or another. I am ready to accept this fact. You should be too.

I have lots of opinions on lots of different subjects and some of those will likely change over the course of this project so if I say something that irritates you a LOT, please take note of the fact that if you make good points without being a jerk I will take them into consideration. As a general rule, I tend to avoid stating my opinions as if they are in some way relatable to actual fact. For instance I will not say that so-and-so is a bad musician. I will however say that in *my opinion* they are not very talented. If you are disagreeing with something I say, please treat your opinions in the same way.

I don't think I'm very special, I really have not led an extraordinary life. I grew up in a small town, where we didn't even have enough kids in town to fill the high school so we had to get kids from about 10-13 other nearby towns. And by nearby towns I mean that there were people from towns 45 minutes north AND south of the school. As of August 21, 2010 I am 20 years old, I am what many people would refer to as "queer" and my actual name is Jacob. I live in Canada, I love animals, I eat way too much junk food and play way too many video games.

The purpose of this blog is essentially for me to figure out what my life is. At the end of the year I want to have something I can go back to and say, this is how I changed. This is what I've learned. This was my journey, my adventure, this was me trying to find my way. I want to find answers to who I am and where I'm going and I want others to go on this adventure with me. Maybe I will help some other people, I can't explain in words how amazing an experience that would be for me. But for now, this is just an introduction, and to paint a new face on an old cliche - let's get this globe spinning.