I just realized my blipaversary was yesterday. Amazing how much life can change within a year, and what things remain. I remember what life was like a year ago... On any given day you could find me with Dylan. Probably working on Arabic homework. Living with two girls that hated me, and I wished for my own room. Blonde. Never smoked or drank. Life was comfortable, predictable, safe.

Now I do everything by myself. I have recreated my sense of home. I carry out my own adventures, find my center without the dependence on someone else to give me comfort. I feel elusive most of the time. I like knowing I could disappear and it would go unnoticed. Nothing too nailed down. Oh the people I have met, the lessons I have learned, the experiences I have had, and the feelings I have faced. Life now is unpredictable, fast, independently oriented, full of work and unseen tears, fears, and joy. I hope to be living in the middle east in a year. Apparently I was not destined for comfortable or predictable.

Life is how it is, not how it was. -Conor Oberst