Crushes, Old Friends and Blogs

Hey there!

Fun Fact: I forgot that I have a blog, to which I am supposed to write about the interesting things that go on in my life. Or something like that. Anyway so here I am writing you another lovely post about yours truly, Jade Pearl.

Funny thing about blogs, you kind of forget about them when life takes you by the shirt cuff and takes you for a wild ride. Then you get so busy with everything in your life that you forget, or rather push back, the other things in your life. It is not until you are soaking it all in that you remember those things. You tell yourself "Oh yeah! I should probably catch up on that!" But you never do, because you are too busy with the other things that life throws at you, until you come to another state of ease where you tell yourself that you are going to remember and catch up on those things that you forgot about. And those things could also be people, who have simply slipped from your mind and your life in the process. Then you go on this total thought tunnel of your past memories, and to think it all started when life whisked you to an adventure.

Well my life adventure started when I started working at Snowbird Summer and Ski Resort, where I was working on rides and meeting pretty amazing people! I was also working at an elementary school, teaching kids to be leaders and mentors as they go onto their education. But the real adventure was at Snowbird, where I was conducting rides, making memories, and living in the mountains. My favorite ride was The Mountain Coaster, which was a nice little roller coaster that I spent most of my time on. Well my first Remember Moment happened on my way up the coaster and riding through the lovely mountain trail. I started thinking about my old friends from grade school and what they have been up to now and how their life has been treating them. I then started thinking about my old crushes. I mainly thought why in the world did I like them in the first place. Then I got to thinking about what they are doing now and the fun times we had back then(let's face it, most crushes are from friendships with the hopes of becoming more). This whole Revisit of The Crushes reminds me of Sting's song "Brand New Day", you should listen to it, it's good shit. Anywho, after all of that I thought about the this lovely blog and how I should update it. I of course didn't because I got busy working at Snowbird and life in general. School started up again, I decided to double major, wrote an article about my school's hookup culture, and studied abroad in Italy.

I didn't actually make an effort to update this blog, until I was in Fiesole Florence, Italy. I was sitting there on this ledge, looking at this amazing view of Florence, when I had realized that I need to reconnect with my people who follow this blog and give it an update. Granted the internet connection isn't the greatest and enjoying Italy kind of took precedence, but I made sure that when I got home I would write this post. Now look where we are, I am typing this and you are reading this.

It is funny how you can get carried away with life and all of its adventures, and totally forget how you even got there. The crushes, loves, old friends, and memories are what makes us the people we are today. We are so consumed by who we will be in the future and who we are now, that we forget that it is the events of the past that mold us into our present selves. I should probably stop typing and you should probably stop reading and enjoy the festivities, it is The Eve of Christmas Eve.