Well...

My first blog post. I told myself in high school that I would NEVER do something like this, yet due to circumstances to be explained, as well as a yearning for attention *wink wink* I must. I grew up on Maui, as the blog name suggests, and graduated from Seabury Hall in 2007. I grew up with a loving family, of course, and as the years passed by, between going to school, and over the summer working at Ruby's Diner, also spending the majority of my time working at boyscout camp, i never really had or understood the time I had to myself, whether it was time to think, or just staring at the wall with my brain not working. Just when no one was around and i could just sit and contemplate.

Im sure the people who will eventually read this, if any, will understand the feeling I am talking about. Its like being at the office at the end of the day, finishing your last phone call, with everyone in the office either gone or leaving, and you sit back in your chair and think "wow, I can finally think by myself." It really is amazing. Since an early age, i was taught to not only think for myself, but to do so for others. If, for example, I am on a scuba dive with someone, and his regulator (the piece that goes in his mouth) breaks, I am the one who thinks of what to do first. You could say my mind is a balanced blade. Anyway, taking this to college in the fall of 07 really helped me. Although I did come from a college prep background, the one thing that helped overcome the stresses of being away from home for the first extended period of time. I relish, and hate this ability now. The positives of my sharp mind are being able to extenuate circumstances of things before they happen, or even just giving good reasons why I should or should not buy something at the grocery store (which I am at quite often). The negatives, in my opinion, are forcing myself to sometimes take care of people ( which is not necessarily bad, but can happen often) or my brain doing something my body doesnt wanna do, like hitting the gym *lmao*. I leave you with a quote from Albert Einstein - "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"