New Beginnings

"No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!" ~ C. Joybell C.

I really like new beginnings. For example when you start a new book and open up the crisp new pages and get ready to devour this new beginning. Or when you start a new year in January and you are just ready, ready for this new beginning. Or when you walk into a new school. Remember your first day of high school? The day you walked into that over-sized new building and just looked around and all you could think was "Oh crap." And when you went home you sat at the kitchen table, still in awe of everything that you had just experienced that day at school. Then your mom sits next to you and asks how your day went and you responded with "Mom, I got lost," or "Mom everything was so big," or "It was the BEST day of my life Mom!" or (my personal favorite) "Mom, you'll never believe it! I saw a guy with a beard!" It was a new beginning and you never thought you were going to get used to it and you hated it and loved it at the same exact time! 

Well that is what the start of this school year was like for me. The only difference is that I'm not a freshman, it's not a new school, and I didn't tell my mom all about some random guy's beard (I've told Susie about plenty of beards but not on the first day of school). It was a new beginning. I was entering into my senior year of high school with absolutely no friends and nowhere to belong and it was terrifying. I remember walking into the building of James River scared to the bone, not knowing which way was up, which way was down, and who I was going to encounter. It was a new beginning and I hated it.

Although I was scarred silly then, now I enjoy every moment of this new beginning. Starting my senior year of high school the way I did has allowed me to really grow as a person and realize who I am as an individual, before I get to college. I have made friends that I really know that I will keep for life and have had the most fun I have had in years. I can honestly say that I am the happiest I have ever been in my whole high school career and it is all because of this new beginning! 

Catty Cornered Café is another example of a new beginning for me. As I have been discovering who I am as a person I realized that I have a list of dreams, but they will just remain dreams until I act on them and make them reality. So I decided to make one of my dreams a reality and here it is, Catty Cornered Café! I am scarred, excited, nervous, and petrified for this new beginning but, despite all of that, I am ready to dive head first into the water, sink or swim!