I welcome you to my blog. This is my first ever blog entry. I have no idea why it has taken me so long to enter into the blogging world. I have always been a bit of a slow starter, especially when it comes to technological means.

I have always been a little shy in expressing myself, especially in a venue where anyone can have access to it. When I was about eleven years old I received a journal for my birthday. The journal came with a tiny little key. I remember thanking my friend for the present and thinking how great it was that it had a lock.

I started to write my thoughts in this journal. I would make sure to lock it after every entry. I would even go as far as to hide it in a secret place in my room.

I am now 25 and continue to keep journals. I have many books full of my thoughts, inner most secrets. Poems, ideas for stories which I plan on writing one day. These books remain hidden in various places in my room. I never share these stories or poems with anyone.

There was one time that I came pretty close and read one part of a poem to a friend.

The other day I started thinking about Life and the idea of taking a risk and really opening up and sharing myself with others. I started to wonder what it was about this idea that is so scary.

Every day people are born, every day people die. I am here right now, alive and well.

The other day I began to take more chances and to risk. It occurred to me that part of the reason that I am not living up to my full potential is because I am not letting myself. I have began to take the challenges that I am invited to take. I have started to make at least one risky move each day. Writing this blog is my risky move for today.

So, I welcome you to this world.

I challenge you to do something, small or large, that you are afraid of doing today.