First Entry

Today was the first day of the rest of my life. It only seems cliche because cliches are usually true, and this is true. I am going to live this new chapter in my life focusing on both the short term and, importantly, the long term. Joy is in the journeying, and I have a long journey ahead of me. I have to be prepared, spiritually, mentally, and physically.

There was a time I seemed to sail upon a vast, blue sea,
Scanning the horizon for some distant, golden shore,
Imagining that happiness lay just ahead of me,
In some wondrous perfect place I'd never seen before...
But as the days and years passed by,
I came to comprehend
That the joy is in the journeying,
Not at the journey's end.
- Dorothy Colgan