\tHaving a blog is like having your own reality show, except you get to do the editing yourself. Fortunately, you don?t see what I look like when I wake up in the morning, and you don?t have to experience the after effects of me eating something that doesn?t agree with me. Come on, we?re all friends here. You can tell me if you have disagreeable bowels. If we can?t talk about that, then what can we talk about. And if you think about it, you having irritable bowels is what?s helping keep all those wonderful people at Charmin and Scott employed. You have to at least be able to see the benefits in that. But I digress.<\/p>\n
It was just a few weeks ago when I came up with the idea of having this blog and I?m excited about how much it?s grown. Believe it or not, there?s a huge demand from my one reader for me to continue adding installments?which also could be called episodes?on a regular basis. In a sense, it?s kinda like a job. If I don?t perform well, my reader may toss me out on my keister and get a new Michael Rochelle to replace me, and we wouldn?t want that would me? So here it goes.<\/p>\n
\tEvery now and then, I try to impart a few pearls of wisdom to those around me. This is one of those times. Maybe I?m getting older?actually, I?m almost certain that I?m getting older?but I?m beginning to look at life a little differently than I did when I was young ? uh, younger. As some of you may know, this will be a big year for me. I?ll graduate from college, finish my book, and reach one of the few age milestones I have left. Though I won?t confirm or deny any allegations regarding my alleged age, let?s just say that I foresee discount coffees in my very near future. But anyway, I?ve done a lot of thinking about my past and where I?d like to go moving forward, and as scary as it is to delve into the next chapter of my life, it?s just as exciting.<\/p>\n
\tBefore I divulge this revelation, I?m going to need you to come a little closer to the screen so I can whisper. Closer. Just a little closer. There are some nosey people in the world and this is just between you and me. Ok, can you hear me now? Good. The truth is, I?m not perfect. I know it comes as a shock, but I am flawed. I don?t have it all figured out. I make mistakes. I trip. I stumble. I fall down and sometimes I lie there for a second before I brush myself off and get up. Sometimes this is because my back or my knee has given out, which comes with age, but sometimes it?s because I?m human, and as a human, I?m fallible. <\/p>\n
\tI wish I could say that I had all the answers, but I don?t. Career wise, there is this big question mark as to whether I should continue the accounting path or step out on faith into a writing related field once I graduate in December\/January. School wise, I want to move on to a graduate degree, but I?m unsure as to whether to continue the writing path, which is in my heart, or to do the smart thing and move on to something more business related in case the writing thing doesn?t pan out. And with love, or the lack thereof, I?m tired of seeing myself make the same mistakes over and over again. And even if they aren?t exactly the same mistakes, why am I overlooking all the signs?and sometimes the tattoos?that spell things out clearly when the person doesn?t see the beauty in all that is Michael Rochelle ? cause I?m special damnit!!! <\/p>\n
\tAlthough I know I won?t be able to find a quick and easy answer to the meaning of life overnight, I know there are some things that I can do to make myself an overall better person. Ok, since we?re friends, let?s all promise to not get stagnant, to keep on progressing, and to make wise choices. Let?s look challenges in the face, hold our heads high, and laugh as we tackle each and every one of them. However, if the challenge is your spouse, manager, professor, parents, or slumlord, you may want to alter the laughter part until you?re safely at least two states away so they won?t catch wind of your gloating.<\/p>\n
\tSeriously though, since we?re right in the middle of 2009, why not make the latter half better than the first? Even if you had a horrible day yesterday, tomorrow is a new one, right? We are people of value and potential to do and be whatever we want. The sky is no longer the limit. Instead, the limits are set within our own minds. No matter what other people see in you, it?s about how you see yourself that?s important. That being said, let?s free ourselves from the bondage that has been self imposed and bestowed upon us by others. I believe we can all do this. I know I have your support and you, my one reader, have mine. <\/p>\n
Here?s to bigger and better things moving forward!!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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