Dear MindSay,
Today, I celebrate my fifth "blogaversary", meaning you must have celebrated your fifth birthday very recently as well. What an accomplishment we have both made! For a half-decade, you have provided me the means to vent, network, & document various portions of my life among other things. It has been quite the journey.
Four years ago, I began a personal campaign via yearly New Year's resolutions to essentially straighten up my life in many ways. When I first established my blog, I was in my third year at a great private liberal arts university. I had just returned from study abroad in France where I traveled to phenomenal places that many will never see in their lifetimes. Suddenly, I came to an unexpected, unexplained standstill, and I dropped out of school, not returning to Europe for a few years. You were around for both the highest & the lowest points of my life. You traveled with me across the pond, and you returned with me to the great state of Texas.
Today, I am happy with what I have going. My life is more secure, and I am heaps more mature in many ways. I have returned to Europe once with another tour taking place next month. My mind is healthy, and my relationship dynamic is strongly vibrant. The greatest lesson that I have learned in these last five years is not necessarily to live in the extremes that I once did but to go with the flow that comes in every passing day. While I cannot say that my general improvement was a direct result of any MindSay therapy, I can say that MindSay helped me personally track the improvement for easy reading at a later time. To this day, I link to various past entries for easy reference in my current entries.
I hardly ever write for an audience, but today I will: I want to thank everyone for making this site so great over the past five years, and what good would this post be without a public display of gratitude to Adam, Brian, & Jen for even creating this website? Thanks, guys & gal. Y'all are, in a nutshell, amazing!
Many have come, and many others have gone. Many have terrorised, and many have blessed. Many have listened, and many have spoken. You can bet that I will be around for another five years & more to experience all that this extraordinary site has to offer.
Sincerely,
Andrew
