Welcome to the new adventure in my life. I’m UNnautural Mel and I invite you to join me as I share a part of my life that has the potential to change my life forever. Or not. Regardless, I’ve decided to share it, so please be gentle.
For now I’ll leave out the background and share that with you as time goes on. But the important thing to know about me right now is why and how this blog came about.
I am a college student currently enrolled in The University of Guam on the tiny island of… you guessed it, Guam. Now as fickle as I may be about major life decisions, I have made the very one that has brought me to this time and place. However, not for lack of trying, I have made a series of bad decisions that has also landing me in this time and place. Which is to say that I’m as unsure as I have ever been about what I want to do with my life and what I expect out of it. Which is only half of why I am here.
In the Fall of 2006, I began taking a Personal Adjustment class. You know the class. It’s part psychology, it’s part get your act together program. It’s the class you take in leiu of physical education because you figure it requires less energy. That is until you get to class and you realize it’s probably class that will likely bring up all of your old deamons and tilt your world in a direction that you never thought possible. That’s this class.
Our first assignment was to start a series of open journals and along the way pick a behavior or emotion that we most wanted to work on. For me the answer to my topic came at the tail end of those journals. While I thought that procrastination would be the behavior I would need to work on, I found that my lack of self-confidence was ultimately the underlying problem in all I seemed to convey in my journals.
So that’s where this blog and this journey come in. While talking with a friend about how to change, it was suggested that I try something unnatural to my very being, everyday. And that is what I hope to do. Wish me luck!
