...It Hits Hard.

The trickiest part of any project occurs in the beginning. I call it the how-do-we-start-this-thing-up stage. I suspect this project would start a little like this...

Hello.

My name is Aaron. I'm eighteen. That's all you need to know for now. Eighteen is the age (as hinted at in the title of this blog) 'when life hits.' Until recently, I lived my life without caring about the future. I never thought about college. Instead, I thought about how I was going to pass World Mythology. I never thought about getting a job. Instead, I thought about how boring and pointless my  Business Math appeared to be (least favorite class, not even sure what the correct name for it was).

I graduated this past June and a couple weeks later, "life hit." I needed to go to college. I needed money. I needed a job. I dealt with most of that. I'm enrolled in a community college and will be starting College Trig this September. I have money, thought most of it was spent during The Scorpions concert a week or so ago. I don't have a job, but I always say I'm going to apply somehwere, and I don't. So there's still that...

And then there's friends. Friends hold everything together. They keep you sane. They give you a reason to show up for school. Let's face it, if it weren't for our friends, most of us would skip out on school every chance we got. After graduation, everything changed in that department as well. As we all know, there are "friends" that we hang out with outside of school and then there are "friends" that we only see at school. After graduation, those "school-friends" are mostly gone, with the exception of sites like Facebook and Myspace and Twitter and the list goes on. That cuts your social interaction severely (at least it did for me, I'm not afraid to admit that). Then, soon enough, you realize that some of the "outside-friends" have changed. While some have changed for the better (got a job, living on their own, starting their life), others have changed for the worse (smoking pot, doing drugs, quitting school, lying to their friends, lying to you).

This blog has one purpose. I want to show what real life is. I want everybody to see what people go through. This blog will not be filled with my own life stories. That would be boring. This blog will be filled with the stories of other people (anonymous, of course). They will not necessarily be good stories, but they will be real, and I hope that is enough to spark your interest as a reader.

Most people that know me might not be surprised to hear the things I post on this blog; to hear the things I witness.

The others out there that think you know me will be surprised to hear about the people I call my friends, about the people I associate with and about the very real things that effect me everyday.

Then there are some people out there that have NO IDEA who I am, and that's okay. My name is Aaron and I'll be your tour guide for this little thing we like to call...

Life.

It's finally hitting...

...and it's hitting hard.