Yay!

I have frankly lost count of the blogs and diaries I have started. I always found the idea of a blog enchanting because it involves this mystical feature of allowing you to look back at your old selves. I, however, never had the discipline to keep one.

To quote a post on 9gag, everybody seems to be regarding the New Year as a life-changing experience. New beginnings always give you a boost of energy, and make you feel like this time it really will work out ... I always feel like that at the beginning of the school year: I carefully line each one of my notebooks, craft even the most menial piece of homework in a calligraphic manner, and am really excited about each one of my classes and assignments. The excitement disappears fast. Within few days, my notes become filled with ugly, undecipherable scribblings. After the first week, I feel bored and look forward to break.

In fact, I have epiphanies and decide to change my life every time something goes wrong. After a big row, an academic failure, or an oh-my-God-I-made-such-a-fool-of-myself moment, I start analyzing my life, identifying everything that is wrong with it and resolving to change it. It never works for more than a couple of days.

Now, the last month has been pretty thinking-intensive. I applied to universities in the United States, which required an obscene amount of writing and reflection. I am going to turn 18 quite soon (a big deal here), and the fact that I am drifting into adulthood also requires some preparation: it seems that I have to start this period as a new, improved I. Other factors (such as having completely embarassed myself on Christmas Eve, or the fact that very soon I will finish high school, and quite possibly leave home for good) do not help either. Biiiig time resolution-setting.

Nothing short of ambitious, believe me. If I stick to all of my goals, I might become the next Mother Theresa/Hillary Clinton, because the self I am to have in a few months does not seem to lack any qualities. Oh well, I guess starting small was never my thing.

And to get to the point of this post, one of the resolutions is to start -yet- another blog and stick with it. Like actually. I will probably write about my -sometimes- exciting life, random thoughts and stories. Yay for a new beginning!