Getting Started (Mostly)

When I first created this blog, it was during finals week and I honestly didn’t really want to start it during then (because of finals). Anyway, I have been trying to come up with an idea of what this blog should be about. At first, I wanted it to focus on my ideas about human motivation and my experiences with my teenage colleagues and trying to find some purpose within my life. Later, I decided I wanted to start blogging during my “Happiness Project” in which I would use my summer between my Junior and Senior year of high school. However, I feel that this blog should be dedicated probably to  my ideas (in general and not just specific to being a human). First, I want to start out posting everyday as if they were journal entries, but I hopefully will morph this blog into a more research oriented yet fun themed blog in the blogosphere.
First, I want to discuss my happiness project. The primary reason I started this was the influence of my high school AP and Honors Chemistry teacher Mrs. G (If you are reading this, you rock!). In her class, I was watching this movie called Happy (www.thehappymovie.com) and was inspired by this movie to embark on my own personal journey in analyzing human behavior and seeing what I could do to make things better within my own personal teenage life. Then, I read the book The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin and I thought the transformation of her life was so astounding that I wanted it to happen to me. However, I realized a major difference between her and me: she is an adult, and I am a high school teenager. I feel like embarking on a “happiness project” would be much easier to a person that has reached a certain level beyond the pressures of high school. I don’t have a professional job, nor am I a parent, but I still go through the cycles of going to school, taking tests, dealing with other teenagers probably more frequently than other adults do with other adults. I feel like adults strive for other mid thirty year old adults to find purpose in their lives, but what about us teenagers? I feel like there is a lack of awareness of the idea to “stop and think about what’s going on in my personal life” within the mainstream public education system. Part of my experiment with myself is trying to hybridize this approach into my incoming school year and college application process.
I feel like I’m starting a couple of my resolutions during this week, but I feel like it’s more of a “how does it feel” approach. For example, I started exercising every other day, but I want to work towards an “everyday” type of approach (besides, I don’t really like it, but it’s doing me a favor). Also, sometimes I make my bed first thing in the morning, and sometimes I don’t. I want to correct these habits and make new ones. I plan to make a resolutions page on this website soon, but until then I hope to those of you who read that I will bring some sort of idea to be aware of to you. I plan to officially start the within the next few days (maybe Saturday?). I plan on posting some prerequisite posts in the coming days, and I plan on posting every day. Let see how it goes. Have a nice day!