This is the beginning

Okay, so I'm submerged in the tepid water of my ancient jacuzzi nursing a hangover and sipping on a tall black coffee from Starbucks, and this thought hits me:

"Why don't I start my own blog?"

Typical hungover behavior. I sometimes have these flashes of embarrassingly euphoric inspiration, so I've decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth and seize this one before it dissolves into a 10-hour Youtube binge-watch instead.

I am a 20-year-old in the purgatory that is community college, not necessarily trying to figure out who I am (because that would be awfully cliche of me, as if this whole blog wasn't already enough so), but how I think.

The thing is, I've watched this movie called Stuck in Love--maybe you know it--and within 90 minutes of dialogue, 8 biting words poised to haunt any fledgling writer, bitch-slapped me: "A writer is the sum of their experiences."

Damn you Greg Kinnear.

My trouble with that all too relatable adage is that I fear I don't have enough experiences to proclaim myself a vetted literary genius. Is that what I'm missing? Do I not get to scale the hierarchal pyramid of journalistic titans until I rack up enough break-ups, near-death experiences, and world travels?

But I've realized, not entirely ironically, that while my lived experiences aren't exactly what you'd call "news-worthy," they mirror the lived experience of the majority of my generational peers. I'm not a journalistic titan but I have an upper hand on the fuddy-duddies attempting to speak on behalf of my political, religious, and social experience.

Will I be the voice of my generation? Probably not. But I think that I represent a vastly under-represented sector of this American population that feel dejectedly futile in the midst of the political era that we are supposed to govern (literally and metaphorically).

The ideas in this blog are my own; not filtered or diluted by my family's or friends' stance on the issues I write about. I merely want to explore the questions that I'm too afraid to ask in public--and that I'm sure a lot of other people in my position would want to ask too.