Delayed.

I am seriously horrible at updating this blog. I think every time I have the urge to write it has nothing to do with blog related entries and I end up writing them elsewhere. Also, this is the problem with not having and dead set interests to focus my blog around. I've been cultivating ideas in my head about what I want to write about that happen to relate with what my original intentions of this blog were.

A Slice of Life is literally defined as "an episode of actual experience represented realistically and with little alteration in a dramatic, fictional, or journalistic work."  To be honest, I've always used the saying in other ways. I see slices of life as events in my life that I happen in short instances that I can't get out of my mind and that I root down and find some sort of deeper meaning. 

My so called splices of life where what as a young child made me want to think I wanted to be a writer, things happening and I over analyzing them and finding a true meaning. I guess when I was told I needed to pick a topic I thought this would be good for me, things that happen, like random acts of kindness that I see happening and acts that people contribute to that can change a persons entire perspective on a day. 

I am realizing that these things only make sense to me, and that the problem with my writing is that I am not doing what I am supposed to be doing. I am critiqued for writing too diary like which I understand. Which also reminds me how much I hate the word diary. I just want to say that I find it hard to truly write from my heart (which is why I love writing in the first place) when I try not to relate to my own life or put my spin on it. Which will also explain how this semester I have realized that journalism is not for me. If I still love writing after this semester and after my journalism minors are officially dropped, I will still write on my own terms.

I know that this won't even count as a required entry, but what I really wanted to get across with this is my idea for the remainder of the blog-which come to think of it should have been my focus from the beginning. I want to talk about non-profit organizations and other organizations and charities that focus on helping others. A slice of life that not only spins the perspective on a persons day, but changes their entire world. 

I plan on finding some organizations (some that I know, some that are new to me) and talking about them, so if anyone out there (my 2 readers minus my professor who has to read this) have an suggestions, please let me know!