Day One... The Idea

Ok. So here it goes. My name is Sarah and I am a soon to be college graduate. Soon you ask? Yes, in 4 weeks I will close my text books for the last time and I am very excited for it. Never in a million years did I think I would ever start a blog. But here I am today typing away hoping that someone, anyone will actually spend their precious time reading something that a complete stranger is posting on a blog past.

The best place to start by explaining why I am doing this, is to take you back four weeks. Four weeks ago, I was on a very different path in life. I was a full time college student trying to balance the demands of college, classes, creating a senior portfolio, friends, all the while working 40 hours a week. I was working as a legal secretary for a law firm located just 5 minutes away from my college, and I loved every minute of it.... well, I thought I did. My typical day would be wake up at 6am, get ready for work, go to work, go to class, back to work, class again, back to work again, leave work at 6, eat dinner with friends, do homework, work on portfolio, go to sleep, wake up, repeat.

I had been on a similar schedule for the past four years, starting the day I graduated high school. (Ill explain how I started that routine another day.) Four weeks ago, my crazy work obsessed life came to a screeching halt, I LOST MY JOB.

Immediately, I went from rushing back and forth between class and work to having all this extra time in my life and nothing to do with it. For the first couple days, I desperately started searching for a job and sent out 50 resumes by the end of the week. But after a few hopeful job opportunities went down the drain, I started to let myself go.

I started taking naps almost as long as I would sleep at night. I became familiar with every reality show running on VH1, MTV, and Bravo. I started to search for the dumbest things on ebay. I just tried to fill my life with things that would kill the time and keep my mind off of how much of a failure I felt.

In this economy, it is not an uncommon thing. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs and are struggling to find work, just like me. But why am I different then the rest of these people you might ask? Honestly.... I dont know the answer.

All I know is that for the past four weeks, I have gone on a completely downward spiral and for some reason why I decided today it needed to change. The tears needed to stop. The bing drinking on weekends needed to stop. The excuses, the waisting of time, the feeling sorry for myself all had to stop.

So after getting an inspiration from this morning's NBC's Today show, I decided I would use my extra time to do random asks of kindness and blog about them in hopes to find what it is I want to do with my life.

I really hope you will find my blog to be interesting and I would love to hear your feedback about some of the things I will be doing as part of my social experiment.

Tomorrow is day one of the random acts of kindness and I plan to hand out Smarties candies to people while journaling and then blogging about their reactions to this act. The Smarties will also have a lil paper attached to it briefly explaining what and why I am doing it and info linking it to this blog.

Next post will be tomorrow, till then, remember to Live, Laugh, Love.