Reflections of a True Millennial

Hello again. So, Sunday is officially my (hopefully) regular day of writing a blog post, now that I've gotten back to writing. These weekly posts could be about anything, as always, but hopefully include something about my week and what I gained from it, while at the same time refraining from being a "journal." Basically this paragraph just told you what everything has already been like anyway on the blog. Oh well, read on. This post will probably sound contradictory from what I wrote last week, but that's okay. It's not! On Wednesday, I wrote about real intent. A nice term, surely, and hopefully something you can/will apply to your life because it can/will help your life. But, what's the limit of real intent? What's the line between work and play? Can we have real intent in both?  In addition to having real intent in life for all our responsibilities, we also must have real intent in our relaxation. Well that just sounds stressful. Why would you int

I'm still alive and this blog hasn't quite sunk into the depths of the internet, wasting away without any updates. I've actually intended to write for the past few months (in which I hadn't), but habit takes over. Funny how that works. Life has changed a lot. The lazy days of summer gave way to another rigorous school year (as they always do), but this year is different from the rest. Senior year. Our focus begins to shift out of high school and into the future. College applications pile up, counselors frequently visit with all the students, and we're given one last primer on the in's and out's of college before we apply to, accept, and attend a college. With all this, our intentions grow. In life we all intend mostly good things- for ourselves and others. I intend to go to a nice college with a grand scholarship. I intend to get A's in all my classes. I intend to spend more time with my family, etc. It often seems that we are spread so thin among all