(New) What is Stay Forever?

Stay Forever is who I am, or more so who I want to be. Who I will be, one day, and am associating with preemptively (thanks, Stay!)

When do you know it’s time to change? Often times well before you actually do. I waited way too long to change most aspects of myself. I’ve barely even started. This is what I’ll call my first step, or one of them.

This blog is ultimately one of the many outlets that I am using to humanize myself. For too long I have been afraid to express my interests, opinions and ideas. But these are what make us ourselves. By not revealing them, I thought that I could somehow escape the pitfalls that humans inevitably end up in- stubbornness, bigotry, or, god forbid, disagreement.

But there is a lot I stand to gain from doing so. Interests breed friendships, opinions can influence others, and ideas can be published. The enemies, dissent and rejection that come along with them are just as valuable, if initially painful.

I aim to be a person who has a tendency towards action; a person who does not fear the pain of failure. And this takes practice. This is my practicing ground, where I am training to be myself, and everything that comes with that.

I aim to be a person who grows and moves forward. How can I give myself the gift of progress if I do not allow six-or-seven-year-old ideas to finally escape my mind? I know (think!) they’re good ideas, that’s why I held on to them, and by moving them here I am allowing myself to think of newer, awesome-r, ideas.

If this all sounds cliché, good! I am not different from the rest. My takes lack nuance. I have felt, more or less, the same ways as every other person on this planet. I am proud of that.