To the years to come.

Today I've begun writing within the exact moment I was born 19 years ago. What can I say other than life has been a jumbled blur where I've happened to learn some life lessons along the way. It's been fun. With ups, downs, some more downs and a few more ups; I'd like to think I've had a healthy rollercoaster through life so far.

When I was much younger, not even 10 years old, I was told time and time again that the years would fly by in the blink of an eye. Needless to say that as a child this message never hit home or really even in the neighbourhood of my thoughts, as the future has always been this unfathomably large and seemingly endless period to me, but today with the celebrations going on around me I've been left wondering how time has managed to slip passed me so fast. It feels as though only yesterday I was sitting wide-eyed and full of curiosity at the beginning of high school thinking how long it would be until I was "free". As of 2 months ago, I've already finished my first year as a university student.

Just writing that last sentence has gotten a chill running its way down my spine. Lucky for you my reader despite how speechless I am right now, I seem to still have the capacity to write... Even with a wide array of unsettling thoughts bouncing around the inner machinations of my mind.

If there was some sort of message I could send my future self it would be, Live, Love, Laugh... Just kidding, that is the worst joke I've ever written. Anyway. In all seriousness, I would tell myself that I shouldn't let time escape me doing something I'm not passionate about, I should explore as much of the world as I can and finally that no matter the opportunity I should never shy away from taking full grasp of it. Life is about being fulfilled in ways that no material can, and if that means going and writing news stories, helping charities, navigating forests or even acting in future films I will do my best in any way possible wherever I end up.

With that out of the way, I wish all my readers the Merriest of Christmas's and hope that the New Year treats you all well.

Don't let time escape you.

A thought from the writer

Josh.