The First Day Of My Life

As a grade 12 student it is pretty typical for me to be getting ready for university or college in the next few months. That is what I'm supposed to be doing, isn't it?

All my life I have been taking the different approach to things, the detour if you will. And here I am, yet again, taking a detour - this time a much needed one - as I prepare for not post secondary education but instead a gap year. A year to take in the sights of my life and figure out what it means to be alive.

I'm hoping you'll take this exciting, maybe messy, and most likely odd journey with me as I figure out who I am becoming and what it's like to live life in a world that I am unsure about. As I step into the adult world of job searching and managing money, I am hoping to discover something secretive: a truth unknown to high school students, a truth that could save me from the terrifying abyss that high school has become.

I guess I should introduce myself. I'm Liv Eckert, 18 years old, Pisces, and so over high school. I'm ready for a new adventure, so here we are.

No I am not quite done high school, although I might as well be. I have been ready to leave high school since I entered it, and in preparation of finally being free, I have decided to create this blog to document my adventures* through life after what so many teens believe to be the biggest and most important part of their journey - high school.

*by adventures I really mean oddities I find in life as my bum knee limits my ability for real adventuring. But who knows, perhaps this will be an adventure in the figurative sense!

So here are 10 things about me.

1. Rainy days are ones that I cherish as they allow me to enter the realm of possibilities that books provide.
2. My graduation quote in the yearbook will be "I was only here for the library" because that is where I've spent most of my high school career, at least the parts that I've enjoyed, anyway.
3. Bright Eyes is my preferred choice in music.
4. I firmly believe that I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson changed my life.
5. At night I dream of zombie apocalypse scenarios and they bring me joy.
6. My mom is quite possibly my biggest fan and I couldn't ask for anyone better.
7. Weirdness seems to gravitate toward me and that is quite alright in my books.
8. My sister tempted me to call this blog my "Fiery Diary" and I almost did.
9. High school has brought me my closest friends, and for that I am ever so thankful.
10. This is quite possibly the first day of my life.

Thoughtfully yours,
Liv Eckert