Happy Anniversary

I have been waiting for it to come for about a month now, and today I nearly let it go and forgot completely that today is the one year anniversary of this very blog. It began on a warm day last June when I stumbled upon the template that allowed me to create this blog and begin the type-key journey that has brought me to yet another warm June day, one of the hottest so far this year, one partly filled with sunshine and a thunderstorm or two. Funny, that seems to be how the past year has gone, a mix of deep emotional storms and bright happy days.

I had my doubts as to whether I was going to make to this milestone and actually stick with it for an entire year or longer, but it seems to have crept up on me faster than I had thought. What strikes me even more is how different a place I am in this year as compared to where I was just 365 days ago. I was in a place where I was focused on what I had lost or was losing (mainly significant others) rather than what I had in front of me or what I was gaining. There have been a number of relationships (platonic and otherwise) that have grown so much this past year that I can't imagine how I ever made it without them before. While I do forget sometimes, I have been blessed with a myriad of good people around me, and that network of support seems to have truly solidified itself this past year to a point that I am truly comfortable simply being myself.

It's been a rocky year of ups and downs, drama, betrayal, laughter, and fun. Almost like one big giant soap opera. I guess that's what most of us get, a soap opera starring ourselves that only really ends when we die, if then. Every time I complained of being bored, something was always there to take that away in a second, often to the point that I begged for the boredom back. But I guess that is no different that any other year in my life or anyone else's for that matter. Everything just seemed to have been a little more exaggerated and extreme and in a greater state of flux this past year or so. I don't imagine the next year will be any less roller-coasterish, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

To the year that was 26 June 2007 to 26 June 2008.

Let's hope the next one is just as memorable.

Happy Anniversary Modern Gay Romance.