The Road To Self Discovery

Over the past few years, I have really struggled with who I am and who I am meant to be. During high school, I went to a very small school, with a graduating class of about 50 people. Everyone knew everyone and everyone's lives, or so they thought. It was kind of hard to ever break free of the same label people placed each other. Don't get me wrong, I had amazing friends and loved every second of my life. But I always knew there was more to me and my life.

When I went to college, I had my whole life planned out. I wanted to major in Communication/Journalism with hopes of becoming a sports reporter one day. I knew where I wanted to live, had dreams of maybe even living out of state, and had planned my future down to even the smallest of details. While it sounded like the perfect life, I soon realized it was not reality.

About a month into college, I realized I wanted nothing to do with journalism as a career. I did not find any enjoyment out of having to write news stories, as I thought they were bland and not very creatively expressive. Also, I found interviewing people to just be awkward sometimes. While I didn't seem to be enjoying this, I stuck with it, thinking maybe I just needed to gain experience since I was only enrolled in one journalism course at that point. 

Around November, I attended a sports broadcasting seminar that was held at my school. There were several newscasters there from local television stations and I was actually very excited to attend. However, I left there realizing that I definitely needed to change the career path I was on. I realized that sports broadcasting was a very competitive field with jobs that wouldn't necessarily last. The fact that I wouldn't be making much money didn't entice me either. I lacked the passion needed to get a job in that field and so I had to take a step back and seriously evaluate what I was doing with my life.

I loved my major of Communication (journalism was my concentration), so I knew I would stick with something within that area, which was very helpful. After much deliberation and talks with my family and close friends, I decided to switch my concentration to public relations. The field seemed to be a much better fit for me and I was very excited about the change.

However, it was pretty hard on me to have to rethink my future. Everything I had figured out wasn't the plan anymore. Besides my career, I also realized that I would never want to leave the state I live in; I love my city of Pittsburgh way too much. I began to get in a small slump because of all of this. Also, my first year of college wasn't exactly going how I was expecting it to for the spring semester.

Over the summer, I made some changes in my life. I vowed to be happy. This was one of the major changes I've made to myself in the past year. Not that I wasn't happy to begin with, but I would get in major slumps and have random days of sadness without knowing why. I'll probably write a separate blog post about how I did this later on. This past fall semester, I made many social changes in my life that have made me even happier than before. I made more amazing friends and couldn't ask for a better group of people in my life.

While I know there are many things I still need to figure out about myself and changes I would like to make for the better, I am very happy with where I am right now.

I am surely but slowly becoming the person I was meant to be. 

Getting Fit & Healthy!

Hey guys! Sorry for the major lack of posts. This semester is kicking my butt! In my first post, I talked about how this year my goal was to get fit. Since then, I really haven't done much to help with that. Being at college and trying to eat healthy is so hard and my lack of exercise combined with my bad eating habits has really been catching up to me.

I went home for the weekend last weekend and weighed myself. Seeing that number was motivation enough to get me to change my bad habits, again. I hadn't gone to the gym since probably early November and wasn't even being consistent with it like I had freshman year. Plus, I had been eating everything that I shouldn't eat. So this number was understandable, but I was definitely going to do something about it. 

So today I decided to start working out about 5-6 days a week again. I went to the gym to run on the treadmill (which I hate! Outside is so much better, but it's only about 20 degrees here and I despise the cold), which was my first time running in about 3 months. Never again will I stop running for that long! I feel so out of shape, but I did run about 2 miles and walked 0.73 mile, so I got some decent cardio in. But let me tell you, it was so much harder than it was when I was in great shape! So that is even more motivation to go to the gym a lot more!

I'm about to go do some abs/arm workouts once I'm done with this, but I just wanted to let you guys know that I'll probably be blogging about weight loss/getting fit as well as eating healthy quite a bit! I've come across some great healthy recipes that are no-cook, which is awesome since I don't have a kitchen here at college. So when I try some, I'll be sure to share!

Also, if you guys have any great workout tips or healthy recipes, be sure to share! I'd love to find more! :) 

Busy Bee

Hi! Sorry I haven't blogged for a few days. I moved back to college this weekend because the Spring 2013 semester began on Monday, so I've been busy adjusting back to the college life! This semester is going to be interesting. I'm taking 6 classes, 3 of which are for my major. The other 3 are just core classes, but I'll be done with those after this semester, yay!

I'm somewhat excited for this semester because I'm taking my first class for public relations, finally! However, the rest of my classes really aren't too exciting and some are going to be pretty stressful. I'm taking a journalism class, which is the one I am terrified for. Fun fact, I used to be have a journalism concentration (my major is communication but we must pick a concentration for it). But after a few months into it, I realized that the journalism field is definitely not for me, so I switched my concentration to public relations. But now that I have to take a journalism class again, I'm pretty nervous! I'm not the best at news-style writing so it'll be interesting to see how it goes!

I have a few fun blog posts planned for the future, but just bear with me for a little bit because this week is busy! Sorry this wasn't too exciting or anything, but I thought I should just stop by and write a little before I go to my night class! 

I hope you all have an awesome week!