In a move which can best be described as “getting in way over my head”, I’ll soon be leaving for Korea to take up a position teaching 5-10 year olds how to speak English with a slight southern accent. I hope that this year-long foray into the unknown will teach me a lot about Korean/Asian people and culture, but I suspect the new perspective will teach me even more about myself and my life as I now know it. These are the experiences I most want to share with those closest to me. I hope that my stories not only offer a clearer view into my mind and soul, but also help to cast others’ thoughts in a different light, perhaps offering new clarity to an old image that had been taken for granted. Really I just hope to have some kick-ass stories to tell.
The trick will be finding a varied pool of experiences and emotions from which to draw these postings. The few attempts I’ve made at changing thoughts into words have been the result of brief spells of confusion or depression. For some reason I only feel introspective when trying to come to terms with an unpleasant – that’s the wrong word. Let’s say “dark” – a dark emotion. Maybe it’s good that I don’t feel called to explore what makes me content, or even what makes me happy, and that I can enjoy those moments for what they are, but I think there’s as much to be learned from confronting what lifts us up as there is confronting what weighs us down. My goal is to be every bit as inspiring as I am depressing this year. The trick then becomes finding time to write.
I wanted to set up a web page for this little experiment (and I still might), but using xanga seemed a lot easier for now. Plus I still need to think of the perfect domain name for my website. Any suggestions? Since I’m going with the forum approach for these submissions, I want to encourage feedback. Maybe you’ve been touched by something I’ve written. Maybe you think I’m full of shit. Either way, I’d like to know.
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